Ice cream and me. We go way back together. My love affair with ice cream started way back when I was a little girl and our church would have ice cream socials. The men of the church would be out back, churning ice cream by hand, using cream straight from the dairy farm down the road. We would be in the parish hall eating it by the bowlfuls. I can still taste the fresh peach ice cream! Best of all, our family would get to take home some leftovers! There was something crispy and icy and creamy about that homemade ice cream that is hard for any ice cream store to replicate.
Even though we don’t churn our own ice cream any more, my girls love ice cream just as much as I do. They would eat it any time of day, and sometimes I say no. No ice cream. And then look what happens!
July is National Ice Cream month (I know! Ice cream should have its own month!) so today’s Tuesday Ten is all about ice cream! I always start with vanilla, my favorite flavor. Emmy loves vanilla, just like me. My husband is partial to chocolate along with my older daughter, Lily.
I’m not a big fan of chocolate ice cream, so here is a list of my favorite ice cream flavors and toppings for this week’s:
1. Vanilla, topped with:
2. Crushed pretzels – salty sweet!
3. Caramel – Mmmmm!
4. Chocolate chips – never wrong!
5. Cinnamon – Mix it in!
6. Roasted peanuts – crunchy!
7. Moose Tracks – vanilla with mini peanut butter cups and a fudge ripple
8. Marion Blackberry – from Sherman’s Ice Cream in South Haven, Michigan. A once a year treat!
9. Sea Salt Caramel Cashew Ice Cream from the Schwan’s man – as delicious as it sounds!
10. Soft serve vanilla from Dairy Queen, dipped in a chocolate shell – a summer must!
We don’t have an ice cream maker at home, but we do have a recipe to make our own ice cream! This is a fun project to do with your kids, and the results are delicious!
Ziploc Bag Ice Cream
In a pint size ziploc bag add: 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, 1 tablespoon sugar, and 1/2 cup half and half. (I like to double bag this.)
In a gallon ziplock freezer bag add ice and 6 tablespoons of coarse kosher salt. Place the small bag inside the large bag and seal. Shake it up!
In about five minutes, you’ll have your own, homemade soft serve ice cream! Enjoy!
Ginny Marie, you and I think alike when it comes to ice cream! 🙂 I don’t really like chocolate ice cream either, and the only one of my kiddos that seems to really like it is my daughter. My hubby and boys don’t care for it, either. However, if it is vanilla WITH chocolate in it, they are all over it! LOL 🙂 I’ve recently started trying the Greek frozen yogurt, and I really like it. It’s more tart, but there is just something I really like about it. Oh, and I am so with you about homemade ice cream! It is the BEST! 🙂 I hope you are enjoying your summer!
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I love Greek yogurt, so I’ll have to try the frozen kind! I do gravitate toward the tart varieties when I take the girls to a frozen yogurt place by us. (Menchies…do you have them by you?) When I was a teenager, we always went to a frozen yogurt place by where I worked, then they disappeared for a while. Now there are a ton of frozen yogurt places!
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There used to be a frozen yogurt place near me called TCBY. Now, there is nothing, and I’m not even sure I could find a place that serves frozen yogurt anywhere nearby. So sad! I do miss it! I have never heard of Menchies, but if I ever do come across one, I will definitely try it! 🙂
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Huge vanilla loved here and would so add rInbow and/or chocolate sprinkles or even some shredded toasted coconut if I were feeling adventurous!! 🙂
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Ooo, I love coconut! I’ve never sprinkled in on my ice cream, but I bet it would be delicious!
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I love ice cream just as much as you do! I do prefer chocolate but vanilla with chocolate chips is my second favorite.
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You can never go wrong with a little chocolate!
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Cassidy makes the ziploc bag ice cream sometimes!
Moose Tracks is on my list too! I’ll be posting mine tonight, but it’s also about other stuff I love.
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I’ve only made the ziplock ice cream with my preschoolers. I really should make it with my own kids this summer! Poor things.
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Love, love, LOVE ice cream! Oh goodness, it’s a summer must here at our house. Last year I mentioned to my mother-in-law that I wanted an ice cream maker (electric!) so we could make our own. She found one at a garage sale for $5! What a deal! But the real treat is that it rode all the way from TN to NE when she and my father-in-law came out for a visit. Now that’s a deal. $5 ice cream maker AND free delivery.
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Hey, that is a great deal! When my parents moved, they gave away TWO ice cream makers! At the time I lived in a small apartment, otherwise I would have taken one.
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We have done the ziploc bag ice cream before. 🙂 I love vanilla with caramel! And brownie bits. The Sea Salt Caramel Cashew sounds divine!
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Mmmm, brownie bits would be a great addition! And warm chocolate chip cookies, and maybe a slice of cherry pie….
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I never would have thought to put pretzels on ice cream, but now that I read it, I might have to give it a try!
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Mmmm, you have to try pretzels on top of ice cream! I actually crush them and put them at the bottom of the bowl, so they are like a salty crust. Delish!
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Your making me crave ice cream. That Blackberry one from Michigan sounds amazing! Dairy Queen is always a favorite of ours. My favorite ice cream flavor is butter pecan. I’ve never had home made ice cream. It wasn’t something that happened in our family growing up.
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The blackberry flavor is delicious! I’m headed to Michigan in a couple of weeks, but only for two days. I hope I remember to get my favorite ice cream! 🙂
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My mom eventually got a gallon and a half electric freezer. Banana was her speciality. None like it since.
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Oh, yum! Now I’m thinking we need to invest in an ice cream maker!
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We have one that is probably 40 years old. Gonna get it out and try in the next couple of weeks.
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I’ve had cake batter ice cream recently – soo good! And this past winter I kept hearing about making ice cream out of snow. Never tried it but heard it was good.
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Cake batter ice cream sounds delicious! I’ve never had it before! I’m very wary about making the snow ice cream…maybe if we lived out in the country where there wasn’t as much pollution I’d be more tempted to make it!
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