**Hi all, here’s an ice cream recipe. I know ice cream can be cheap, but quality ice cream is NOT! This is the good stuff on a budget.**
**You can also see it with photos here:**
[https://www.instructables.com/Fast-and-Easy-DIY-Homemade-Organic-Ice-Cream-No-Mi/](https://www.instructables.com/Fast-and-Easy-DIY-Homemade-Organic-Ice-Cream-No-Mi/)
**Ice cream ingredients**
1 cup organic half & half
1 tablespoon organic granulated white sugar
1/2 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
(Makes one serving)
Equipment and items
3 cups ice
1/3 cup table salt
Scissors
1 sandwich zip-top bag
1 gallon zip-top bag
1 set measuring cups
1 tablespoon
1 teaspoon
Hand towel/kitchen towel/winter gloves
Optional extras
*Organic sprinkles (to serve)*
*Organic chocolate sauce (to serve)*
*Cell phone/laptop/other music source (for music while shaking ice cream)*
**Step 1: Create Playlist (optional)**
Create a quick playlist on your phone/laptop of three or four songs on the theme of shaking.
*Song suggestions: Taylor Swift’s Shake It Out; Pitbull’s Shake, Senora; Florence and the Machine’s Shake It Off; and Bill Haley and the Comets, Shake, Rattle, and Roll.*
**Step 2: Ice, ice baby!**
Cut open the bag of ice at the top, taking care that it doesn’t spill out.
Take the gallon zip-top bag. Holding the open bag upright, add three cups of ice to the bag, then add 1/3 cup of salt onto the ice. Keep the bag open but set it aside, ensuring that it doesn’t tip over.
**Step 3: The yummy stuff**
Take the sandwich zip-top bag. Open it and pour one cup of half & half into it. Set aside the measuring cup. Place the sandwich zip-top bag carefully on a clean, hard surface, ensuring that the half & half won’t spill out.
Add 1 tablespoon of sugar to the half & half in the sandwich zip-top bag, ensuring not to cause any spills. Set aside the tablespoon.Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to the half & half and sugar mixture already in the sandwich zip-top bag, ensuring not to cause any spills. Set aside the teaspoon.Seal the sandwich zip-top bag, sliding the zip across the top until the bag is fully closed.Check for leaks!If the bag does leak, just pour the contents into a new sandwich zip-top bag and then continue to the next step.
**Step 4: Check, please!**
As the gallon bag of ice and salt has now been sitting for a few minutes, it’s a good time to check this bag for leaks, too! If it is leaking, either place it inside another gallon zip-top bag or pour the ice and salt contents into a new gallon zip-top bag and then continue below.
Place the sandwich zip-top bag into the gallon zip-top bag containing the ice and salt mixture. Close the gallon zip-top bag, sliding the zip across the top and ensuring the bag is fully sealed.
**Step 5: Shake, Shake, Shake!**
Press play on your shaking-themed playlist.
Put on gloves (if using), or place a kitchen/bathroom towel around the gallon zip-top bag to insulate your hands from the cold.
Holding the wrapped gallon zip-top bag in both hands, shake the bag around for 8-10 minutes or until the ice cream has a soft-serve texture.
*Dancing is optional but strongly encouraged!*
**Step 6: Enjoy!**
Open the gallon bag and remove the sandwich bag which is now full of delectable, soft-serve style, organic, homemade ice cream.
Option a) Open the sandwich bag, pour in toppings as desired, and eat straight from the bag.
Option b) Spoon or squeeze the ice cream in a bowl, pour on toppings as desired, and eat.
**Enjoy!**
by Legal-Green8439