Nothing says summer like homemade ice cream! But where, oh where, did we pack away the ice cream maker from last summer? Forget it! Now you can make delicious homemade ice cream in less than 10 minutes in a baggie!! How easy is THAT!! Here's what you need:
2 Tablespoon sugar
1 cup half & half (or light cream)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup coarse salt or table salt(I used canning salt)
ice
gallon-sized Ziploc bag
pint-sized Ziploc bag
Mix the sugar, half & half and vanilla extract together. Pour into a pint-sized Ziploc baggie. Make sure it seals tightly. You can also add any flavors that you would like such as strawberries, chocolate, or my favorite, peppermint! I just add some crushed peppermint candy and a little peppermint extract.... heavenly!!
Now take the gallon-sized Ziploc bag and fill it up halfway with ice and pour the salt over the ice. Now place the cream filled bag into the ice filled bag and seal.
Make sure it is sealed tightly and start shaking. Shake for about 5 minutes (or 8 minutes if you use heavy cream.)
Open the gallon-sized bag and check to see if the ice cream is hard, if not keep shaking. Once the ice cream is finished, quickly run the closed pint-sized baggie under cold water to quickly clean the salt off the baggie.
Open the baggie, pop in a spoon and say hello summer!!
