Making ice cream
By dragon54u
@dragon54u (31634)
United States
August 1, 2008 10:15am CST
I'm putting this in "Life" instead of cooking because it's a family activity!
Years ago, I found a recipe to make ice cream using coffee cans but you can use any can with a lid, one smaller and one larger. My boys and I lived in Arizona then and the heat is so bad there that most of our year was spent inside. So one day I found this recipe and we spent a pleasant time rolling the cans back and forth between us, talking and making jokes and laughing. Then, of course, we had some wonderful ice cream to top it all off!
Since I'm not sure if I can post the link without getting deleted, here's the link with the "dot" spelled out!
crafts dot kaboose dot com/coffee-can-ice-cream dot html
This is so much fun to make with your kids! 
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
1 Aug 08
That sounds like a good idea. I will have to try it sometime. We have to drink enough coffee to have some coffee cans. I guess you put the small coffee can inside the large one, insert the dry ice in between and put the cream, sugar, and eggs in the can inside. Right? And it is much better than the kind you can buy at the store, unless it is the natural ice cream.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
1 Aug 08
I checked the recipe and it looks delicious. I would add strawberries to mine. By the way do you have to put the coffee cans or whatever cans in the freezer to get them cold first? I did not see that in the directions, but I remember a show where they did something similar, only it was a guy show and they made it more complicated than it was.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
1 Aug 08
We only had the small coffee can so we used an old, dried up bucket of paint to put it into! Necessity is the mother of invention.
It was soooo good! You can add strawberries or other fruit, too.
It was soooo good! You can add strawberries or other fruit, too.1 person likes this
@carrieandjohn (554)
• United States
1 Aug 08
kewl.. that is a good thing.. i am a girl scout leader and this will be something the troop can do and earn a badge...
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
1 Aug 08
I'm glad I could help with the suggestion!
We made another batch after plain vanilla and made it chocolate by added cocoa. Lew threw in a few chocolate chips and Jack suggested nuts. It was delicious!
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@mcc371 (918)
• United States
1 Aug 08
I remember one summer at my grandmothers we made it this way because none of us kids wanted to sit on the ice cream churn ..oh I can still feel my frozen rearend. lol
I now run a daycare and had lost this recipe and so I am glad you posted this as I think sometime this week I will make this with the kids. It will be lots of fun and they will feel special too.
Thanks for sharing.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
1 Aug 08
I'm so glad I could help! The kids will have fun with this, you should take a picture and share it with us!
