Science experiments are a great way to spend some Quality Time with your kids. In this episode, Daddy Clay gets a lesson from the folks at Girlstart on how to make ice cream. This dessert recipe and experiment uses simple ingredients and dry ice to create homemade ice cream. Science has never been this delicious. Check out more Quality Time for ideas on other great kids activities. Brought to you by Mommy Mixer. DadLabs Ep 408. Distributed by Tubemogul.
The combined flavor of homemade ice cream and peaches is one that is hard to top. One of the fun things about making your own ice cream is to be able to blend different flavors right into the mixture as the ice cream is being churned. Unlike buying flavored ice creams, when you make your own fruit flavored ice creams, you know for a fact that the fruit you mix in with the other ingredients is absolutely pure and absolutely fresh. And since most homemade ice cream is eaten within a day after it is made, you get that taste of very fresh fruit mixed with your ice cream that no ice cream you buy at the store can possibly compete with.
There are times of the year when peaches are just ripening that you can go to a local orchard and harvest them right off the tree. That is the time to make up your homemade ice cream using these peaches that could not be fresher. The flavor of the peaches is so active at that time that they are almost unrecognizable from the flavor of peaches from the supermarket. So if you get home from picking peaches and get busy putting together the standard ingredients for homemade ice cream to mix up in your ice cream machine, you can add peaches as the ice cream is being made so they freeze right into the mixture for a wonderful taste treat.
The two best ways to add the taste of fresh peaches to your ice cream is chunky and creamy. The easy way is to just cut and clean the peaches and perhaps skin them. Cut the peaches into bite-sized pieces. Then mix up the ice cream in your churn or ice cream machine. During the process of mixing, add in the cut peaches and let them churn into the mix. They will disperse throughout the mixture and some of the pieces will blend into the recipe to give all of the ice cream a wonderful peach flavor. But when the homemade ice cream is done and you serve it, the frozen peaches will be part of the ice cream so each bite will bring an explosion of peach flavor with each chunk you enjoy.
You can achieve the same flavor but make the ice cream even more permeated with the flavor of peach by putting the skinned peaches into the food processor and blending them into a paste. Add that to the ice cream that is being prepared for churning and close up the ice cream machine and let it do its work. When you take out the finished ice cream, it will have a rich peach color and the aroma of peach will fill the room. It will be hard to leave the soft ice cream alone to let it finish in the freezer. But it will be worth it because your peach ice cream will have a flavor that can't be beat.
The basic formula for making ice cream at home is not very complicated. The way homemade ice cream takes on its unique personality comes from either how it is made or what is added to the basic formula. For fun, you can actually turn the production of ice cream into a great game the kids can play at a birthday party. And when they are done, they can open up the makeshift "churn" and eat the ice cream with their birthday cake.
For starters you use the age old recipe for homemade ice cream that most people are familiar with which includes one pint of Half and Half, one and a half tsps of vanilla and a little over a third cup of sugar. Now this ice cream formula makes a very basic vanilla ice cream. You can add fruit, cookies, chocolate chips and all kinds of other items to produce the flavors you want. This is the fun part of making ice cream at home, you get to experiment with new flavors and variations on the basic recipe.
Now we will turn the actual churning into a birthday party game. Take a one-pound coffee can that you thoroughly washed and mix up the basic recipe we just described in it. Then seal the top and tape it with duct tape so it will not come open or leak under any conditions. Now put the small can inside a three-pound coffee can, also cleaned out thoroughly so you don't have the smell of coffee permeate your ice cream.
Fill the larger can with ice so it surrounds the smaller can. Now put the lid on the bigger can and seal it up just as tightly as you did with the smaller can. Now you have your make shift churn and the children at the party are your raw labor. Wrap the can in a towel and lay out a sheet on the floor just to be safe in case the cans open. Now the children can get down on the floor and roll that big can all over the place just as vigorously as they can. Cheer them on that they are making their own birthday ice cream treat. They will giggle because the can will be quite cold. But that is part of the fun.
After ten minutes, open both cans and take a look. If the ice cream is not perfect, seal everything up and give it another ten minutes of playful rolling on the ground. After you open it up again, the ice cream should be frozen to the sides of the can. This is a good game to play early in the party so you can put the finished product in the freezer to finish the job. But save up those coffee cans because you may want to get three or four cans going to have various flavors of ice cream to serve with the cake. The kids will love the flavor and they will go home with a story to tell that they made their own ice cream.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t like vanilla ice cream. It is such a wholesome treat that has always been a big part of family life that its hard to imagine any home that doesn’t have a carton of ice cream in the freezer at all times for whenever an occasion comes up where sharing a small dip of ice cream is the perfect snack to made times of conversation special and fun.
If there was going to be any way to improve ice cream, making it yourself at home is the way to do it. And if there were any criticism anyone would have about ice cream, it would have to be that it is based on sugar and heavy cream so it really is not a health conscious type of treat. So we would like to submit a healthy way to make vanilla ice cream at home that is just as delicious as the kind you buy in the store. But by taking the time to make ice cream that does not introduce more fat to the diets of your loved ones, you retain the great social aspect of ice cream while reducing its impact on the heart and weight of your family.
The first step is to take three eggs and separate the yokes from the whites. A standard egg separator device is always good for this chore. First, beat the yokes manually in a small bowl until they are blended and then slowly add a half cup of honey and beat the yokes and honey together into a thick sauce. Now take the white of the eggs and put them into a larger bowl and beat them manually also. The egg whites will become stiff as you beat them and when that happens, then add the honey and egg yokes mixture to the whites and mix them together.
Put this mixture into a medium saucepan and add four cups of light cream. Cook this mixture together on medium heat for fifteen minutes stirring all the time to keep any of the blend from sticking to the bottom of the pan. The last step is to add two teaspoons of vanilla extract and mix that in. Now the homemade healthy ice cream is ready to freeze. You can use a routine ice cream machine to freeze the mixture or you can just freeze it directly in the freezer. If you do put it up to freeze without movement, take it out every hour or so and stir the ice cream as it cools for the first 2-3 hours. After that, let it freeze all the way into a nice creamy solid ice cream.
If you let it freeze over night to be ready by the next day's dinner, you will have a delicious natural ice cream treat that will have everyone saying "Wow, what a great recipe". You can decide whether to tell your family it is sugar free and much healthier than regular ice cream. Or you can just relax and enjoy how much they like your secret recipe for homemade ice cream and celebrate quietly that you are also taking good care of your family's health even while making them special treats.
When you first heard of fried ice cream, you probably thought, "That's crazy!" After all, how can you fry something that is cold? You would think that it would melt before it could ever be served. But when you first tried fried ice cream, probably in a Mexican restaurant as that seems to be where they are served the most, it’s an amazing experience. They really can fry the ice cream so the outside is hot and fried and inside is nice, cold ice cream. What melting there is oozes into the crust, which makes them even tastier.
Now it is possible to make fried ice cream at home. Just think of the fun of serving this treat at a special dinner and hearing the amazed expressions of "Wow" and "This is great" all directed at you for pulling off this exciting desert. It isn’t that hard but it will take some preparation. So get all the stuff together well in advance so you can prepare the treat as early as the morning before the dinner. Then you will be completely ready to serve when you want to spring your surprise on your family and friends.
It all starts with the ice cream. Vanilla is a good choice although you can play with flavors as you get experienced with this desert. Use a standard ice cream scoop that you can create completely round ice cream balls with. You might have to practice with the scoop to make perfectly round balls by rolling the ice cream when you scoop it. Using a cookie sheet, scoop out 8-12 ice cream balls. Put them immediately into the freezer to become solid in that shape. This is important because freezing works differently for a small ball of ice cream than when it is in the tub and you want the ice cream tube very hard when you are ready to fry it.
Let the ice cream balls freeze for at least an hour before the next step. Now you know why we had you start early. Now in a medium sized bowl, combine three cups of corn flakes and crush them into tiny pieces for the coating. Combine the flakes with a teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Now in a separate bowl, break three eggs and whip them until the yokes are blended with the whites. Now take out the ice cream balls and dip them into the egg mixture and then cover the ice cream with the corn flake coating. Get them completely coated and return them to the cookie tray and freeze it all for another 3 hours.
When it is time to make the desert, prepare your fryer with cooking oil. Using a frying basket, dip a few ice cream balls at a time into the hot oil. Cook them for no more than fifteen seconds. Do them all quickly so there isn’t much time from when you start to when you serve. Now put them all on a serving dish. Cover them with whipped cream and drizzle some honey over them and top with a cherry. Then serve your guests and just wait for the "Wows" to come rolling in.
Science experiments are a great way to spend some Quality Time with your kids. In this episode, Daddy Clay gets a lesson from the folks at Girlstart on how to make ice cream. This dessert recipe and experiment uses simple ingredients and dry ice to create homemade ice cream. Science has never been this delicious. Check out more Quality Time for ideas on other great kids activities. Brought to you by Mommy Mixer. DadLabs Ep 408. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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