Ice Cream Day at Mentor Camp

Making ice cream in bags

We made our own ice cream in camp yesterday. We used plastic bags, ice and salt for our ice cream “machines”. We made both vanilla and chocolate bases with half and half, chocolate syrup, sugar and vanilla extract. We poured some of the base into a sandwich size Ziploc bag and sealed it tight. Then we put ice and salt in a gallon sized Ziploc bag along with the sandwich bag of ice cream base. The kids went outside and tossed the bags back and forth. In about 10 minutes we opened our bags and had ice cream. We did have a few leaks- dropping the bags will do that :). It was fun, though.

We also made mini ice cream sandwiches with vanilla wafers and chocolate covered frozen banana slices.

Ice cream sandwiches

Frozen bananas in white chocolate with sprinkles

Chocolate ice cream in a bag.