Homemade Ice Cream

We have been promising Emily that we would make homemade ice cream since the beginning of the summer, but have not had a chance until now!!  We used a very simple recipe but it was still delicious.  It tasted more like frozen fresh whipped cream so we decided we needed to try some other recipes too.

Simple Vanilla Ice Cream

You will need:

1 cup milk

3/4 cup sugar

1-2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 cups heavy cream

 

Pour 1 cup milk and 3/4 sugar  into a bowl

Mix with a mixer on low speed until sugar is dissolved in the milk.

Add the vanilla

and 2 cups of heavy cream

Mix to combine    

Pour mixture into prepared ice cream maker.

(Picture courtesy of my little photographer!!)

Wait for the ice cream maker to work its magic.  It took ours about 25 minutes.

Keep checking to see if it looks like ice cream yet.

Serve up your yummy ice cream.

We have a very fun soft serve with mix ins ice cream maker.  My Mother-in-law gave it to us for Christmas before Emily was born.  Sadly I have only used it a few times before this.  But, now I think we are all hooked.  We are already trying to decide which flavor we will create next!!

Emily couldn’t have been happier!!

I scream, You scream…

…we all scream for ICE CREAM cones!!!

 

Emily has been enjoying the summer and especially getting ices from Ralph’s after dinner.  She also really loves ICE CREAM!!  I thought it would be fun to make our own ice cream cone project and Emily totally agreed.  We had a great time making this project with our art group friends!

We used pink, brown and white construction paper, brown and red paint, and all different colored tissue paper squares.

First, the girls painted the cone shape that I cut out for them brown with a small sponge.

Next, they glued on the ice cream scoops.  I cut out a pink, white and brown circle for each child.

After that, they used their thumb to make a red thumbprint cherry on top. Finally they glued tissue paper sprinkles all over their ice cream scoops, which looked really cute and was also great fine motor skills practice.

Yummy yummy!!! 

We are planning on making some homemade ice cream too, so stay tuned  :0)