Homemade Shake & Make Ice Cream

Here's a fun summer activity for the kids...Homemade Ice Cream!  This recipe doesn't require an ice cream machine, just some good old fashioned shaking.  Growing up, our family had an ice cream machine with a hand crank.  I remember loving that soft, homemade ice cream.  This shake and make ice cream isn't quite the same but certainly easier, cheaper and fun for the kids.

This is a great summer treat.  My boys enjoyed making their own ice cream.

Ingredients

Ingredients in the quart bags

Let the shaking begin!

We all decided to make chocolate ice cream by adding chocolate syrup to the milk before we started the shaking.

Shake & Make Ice Cream Ingredients: 1 cup whole milk 1 Tbsp sugar ½ tsp vanilla 1 Tbsp heavy cream (optional) 6 Tbsp rock salt 1 quart sized ziploc bag 1 gallon sized ziploc bag Directions: Pour the milk, sugar, vanilla, and cream into the quart ziploc bag and seal tight.   Fill the gallon ziploc bag half full of ice.  Add the rock salt Place the sealed quart bag into the gallon bag of ice/salt and seal. Shake the gallon bag for 5-7 minutes Open the quart bag and enjoy your ice cream *Add chocolate or strawberry syrup before you shake to make flavored ice cream Recipe by Chrissy @ Loving Life https://lovinglife27.blogspot.com/2014/06/homemake-shake-make-ice-cream.html

Little ones might want to wear winter gloves while shaking the bag because hands get cold!