How to Make Ice Cream in a Bag

Love ice cream and end up spending a bomb every time the urge to gorge on some strikes through? Here's the deal though - why buy expensive brands of ice creams and splurge so much on them when you can easily make some at home? Is that possible? Of course it is. It involves a little bit of effort, but it's also a lot more healthy. Add to that the satisfaction of having it made at home and you'll have enough reason to try it out. Some of you may know that you get these specialized ice cream makers that are made solely for this purpose. But what you might not know is that there is another way of making ice cream...and that is in a bag! Sounds ridiculous? I'm sure it does. But that does not make it not true. So how does one go about making this happen? Patience, patience. All that will follow in the following article.

How to Make Ice Cream in a Plastic Bag

Homemade ice cream is not only healthier and more hygienic but it takes less than 10 minutes to prepare. And that is definitely an advantage. So how do we go about making this happen? Here's how to make ice cream in a bag.

Vanilla Ice Cream (Basic Recipe)

Ingredients

• 1/4 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 tbs Sugar
• 1/2 Cup milk
• 6 tbs Rock salt
• Ice cubes (2-3 cups)
• 1 Plastic bag (Pint size)
• 1 Plastic bag (Gallon size)
• Chocolate for flavoring

Directions

1. Take a bowl and mix the milk, sugar and vanilla.
2. Once they have mixed well, put them in the pint size bag and seal the bag tightly.
3. In the gallon sized bag, add the ice cubes and rock salt and mix well.
4. Place the smaller pint-sized bag in the bigger bag and seal shut.
5. Vigorously shake and move the bags about. You'll find that the mixture inside the pint sized bag is turning into ice cream.
6. Continue shaking for 5-8 minutes till the mixture has completely solidified.
7. Then carefully remove the pint sized bag from the bigger bag and open the seal.
8. Remove the ice cream into a bowl and add chocolate flavorings in way of chips and syrup over the vanilla scoop.
9. 1/2 a cup of milk will make about a scoop of ice cream so you can either double the ingredients or use multiple bags simultaneously.

Vanilla Ice Cream With Whipped Cream

Ingredients

• 2 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1/2 Cup white sugar
• 2 cups whipping cream
• 2 cups cream
• 4 Cups rock salt/coarse salt
• Crushed ice (2-3 cups)
• 1 Plastic bag (Pint size)
• 1 Plastic bag (Gallon size)

Directions

1. Use a bowl and mix together the cream, milk, whipping cream and sugar and stir well till the sugar has dissolved completely.
2. Take half of this mixture and pour into the smaller plastic bag and seal tight after carefully extracting the excess air out.
3. Take the bigger bag and add the crushed ice till it reaches about half way in the bag.
4. Add the salt into this ice.
5. Take the small pint sized bag which has the mixture and place into the bigger bag.
6. Seal shut after removing the excess air.
7. Start shaking the bag vigorously for the ice cream to form.
8. It should take less than 10 minutes for the mixture to solidify. But after 10 minutes if the ice cream hasn't formed then add more salt and ice to the outer bag and shake for 5 minutes again.
9. After the ice cream has formed, open the outer bag and slowly remove the smaller bag with the ice cream. Wipe it clean before opening the bag.
10. Introduce the ice cream into a bowl and garnish with rose syrup, chocolate syrup or cashews and pistachios.

One can replace the ice cream ingredients like vanilla extracts with any of the ice cream flavors of their choice and make a great homemade recipe.

And that is how we make ice cream in a bag - the really, really easy way. It's one of the simplest, most effective and fastest ways of making ice cream for yourself, and it's so simple that many schools use this as a very popular science experiment to teach kids the basics of science.