How to Make All Natural Ice Cream in a Bag

This is a terrfic project for anyone to try -- teachers, homeschoolers, or families anytime you want. You can have delicious ice cream in no time at all with regular everyday ingredients. But don't just believe me, try it for yourself!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1/2 cup Heavy Cream
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 - 3/4 cups table salt or rock salt
• 2 cups ice
• 1 quart size Ziplock bag
• 1 gallon size Ziplock bag

1. After you have gathered your ingredients, start by adding the milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla to the quart bag. Seal and shake to mix.

2. In the gallon bag, pour the ice in and add the salt around it.

3. The quart bag with the liquid it it should be placed inside the gallon bag and inside the ice so that it is surrounded.

4. Seal the gallon bag and start moving! Rock the bag from side to side, shake it up and down - just use caution that you don't break either of the bags. After about 15 minutes, the ice cream should be ready but if not, just keep shaking!

5. You can make different flavored ice creams in a variety of ways. For chocolate, just add some chocolate syrup in the mixture. You can also use regular instant pudding and add 1 cup of condensed milk for the mixture to get just about any flavor you want!

Tips & Warnings

• Use this as part of a science classroom lesson, and you'll be a hit!
• This will only make enough ice cream to feed about two people. Experiment around and see how you can increase your output in other ways.