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Backyard Ice Cream Bar with Wet-Nap

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backyard shake and make ice cream

One of my kid’s favorite things to do is go out for ice cream or frozen yogurt.  They love the places where you serve yourself, top it yourself, and pay by the ounce. I kind of hate those places because they always get gross combos, and waste half of their ice cream, so I feel like I just wasted $25 on ice cream we threw away. But they love it, so we go.

But why spend $25 on ice cream when the best ice cream can be made at home?

shake and make ice cream

We love all ice cream: Raspberry Nutella Swirl, S’mores, and more. But backyard ice cream is my kid’s favorite. It is fun to make, easy to customize, and the kids get really into it. (No machine required.) Plus it tastes great, cold, sweet, and creamy, the way ice cream should.

It is Eazy Peazy! All you need is: 1 quart sized freezer bag, and one gallon sized per person, ice, salt, cream, vanilla, and sugar

Ice cream ingredients

And toppings. How can I forget the toppings?

ice cream bar with Wet-Nap

We had a big flood in our house, and have been living in close quarters as we repair the damage in the basement, so we have had some short tempers and not so fun moments. Our family needed some fun.

So I set up an ice cream bar, complete with all the favorite toppings.  I went to Wal-Mart, because with Wal-Mart’s everyday low prices it was much more affordable than an ice cream shop, and just as fun. I picked up cones, sprinkles, candies, and of course something to help clean up all the drips down chins and tummies.

Wet Nap

I used a simple recipe to make the ice cream mixture and put it in individual portions in quart bags. Then got bigger bags (gallon) and filled them half way with ice, and added a generous scoop of rock salt. The salt helps bring the temperature down faster, helping the ice cream mixture to freeze after only a few minutes of shaking. Table salt works too. Then I put the bag with the ice cream mix in the bag of ice and salt.

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Backyard Ice Cream Bar with Wet-Nap

This is the easiest way to make homemade ice cream and is a great family activity.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Homemade, Ice Cream Bar
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 1
Calories: 454kcal

Equipment

Gallon Freezer Bags
Gallon Freezer Bags
Rock Salt
Rock Salt

Ingredients

  • Ice Half a gallon sized bag
  • 6-8 Tbs Rock salt

Ice Cream

  • 1/2 cup Heavy cream
  • 1/4 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 1 Tbs Granulated sugar

Instructions

  • Put ice cream ingredients in quart sized bag and seal.
  • Fill gallon sized bag half way with ice, and add about half a cup of rock salt.
  • Place ice cream mix bag into bag with ice and salt, and seal gallon sized bag.
  • Shake until ice cream reaches desired consistency.

Notes

If it is taking a long time to freeze and thicken/harden, add more salt to the ice bag, as you may not have enough.

Nutrition

Calories: 454kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 43g | Saturated Fat: 27g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 134mg | Sodium: 41891mg | Potassium: 123mg | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 1749IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 105mg

Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.

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Once filled, I handed the bags to the kids, and let them shake it. We turned on some tunes and had a family dance party, shaking our bags and behinds!

Kids shaking ice cream

When the ice cream gets hard (more like soft serve), we let them head to the toppings bar to top as they saw fit.

bag ice cream

Then we sat down and enjoyed. And as kids do, they enjoyed with reckless abandon, and got covered. Hair, hands, faces… you name it! So we kept the fun going with a fast and easy clean-up using Wet-Nap Packets/Wipes.

dripping ice cream

I found these handy packets in the napkin aisle at Wal-Mart. They are super convenient, really soft on little faces, and are strong. Plus they have a aloe moisturizer! Big win for me with little ones. And they are totally affordable.

My Wal-Mart had them for under $2. So with tax it was only about $1.50 for the box! You should definitely pick some up if you are making Backyard Ice Cream.

Toppings

We had a blast! Backyard Ice Cream is a summer tradition. I think adding the Wet-Nap wipes to the line up will now be part of that tradition as well.

ice cream

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Comments

  7. ephataya says

    I remember the days my mom would make homemade ice cream from snow. Yummm, maybe I should get the kids to give her that look this weekend! haha

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  12. Amy R. says

    I love Wet-naps! We never go anywhere without them. My little one is super messy so they always come in handy. Can’t wait to try the ice cream recipe with her too. I think she will really have fun with it 🙂

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  20. Jessica P says

    I made this once in school, back in the day! It was for a Science class, and it actually tastes amazing. Those toppings look really good as well. 🙂

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  34. Anna says

    Oh man! You guys look like you had a blast! Awesome Ice Cream bar!!!! I love wet naps I used to keep them on me at all times!

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