Homemade coffee can ice cream

To make coffee can ice cream, you just need two tin cans, ice, rock salt, and a few basic supplies and ingredients. This is one of those classic childhood activities that every kid needs to experience.

Ok, you know how much we love to make homemade ice cream here in my daycare, right? Thanks to Nicole from Coffee and Carpool for sharing her coffee can recipe with us today. Ok, Nicole! Show us how to make ice cream in a can! Making coffee can ice cream is a perfect backyard project for a hot summer day at home, and a fun group activity for daycare, preschool or summer camp as well. You might like our: healthy homemade orange creamsicles and our fresh-squeezed, homemade lemonade too!

We dusted off an old homemade vanilla ice cream recipe my grandpa used to make with me, found some old coffee cans, and we made our own tin can ice cream. After my kids measured the ingredients, mixed and poured, and rolled their ice cream until it was frozen, they swore it tasted better than the ice cream we buy from the shop down the road.

If your kids are home for the summer and you want to enjoy your time with them, without going crazy, read these 6 things we do every summer day in our house. Making ice cream and talking about the science behind it would be a perfect fit for 1 and 6 on this list! In order for the ice cream ingredients to freeze, we have to add ice. We have to add rock salt or ice cream salt to the ice. This special salt lowers the temperature of the ice, which lowers the freezing point, so the ice gets colder.

And when the ice gets colder, it gets cold enough to freeze the ice cream ingredients into delicious ice cream that we can eat. Surround the small coffee can with about one inch of ice, then sprinkle a heavy helping of rock salt on top.

Add another layer of ice and then more salt. Hope you are having a great summer weekend and come back to see me real soon! I bet this was super fun to make and rewarding too hehe!

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Inside the smaller coffee can, mix up the milk, whipping cream, sugar and vanilla. If you are using an add-in item such as chopped candy bars, chocolate chips, or nuts, you can also add those now. If using fruit, I recommend adding later.

Wipe outside of can to ensure that it dry. Secure the lid on the small can securely with duct tape. Place the smaller now filled can into the center of the larger can. Place crushed ice all around the small can. Cover the large can with its lid, wipe down any moisture or frost that is collecting on the outside of the can and tape the lid securely on with duct tape.

Roll the can around on the floor for about 15 minutes. Open the large can and remove the smaller can. Open the smaller can and scrape down the side of any ice cream that has begun to form on the sides of the can. Mix in fruit, if you wish to add any in.

Cover can once again, wipe and dry outside of can the best you can, and secure the lid with duct tape. Drain off the water from the large can and place the smaller can inside the larger can again. Repeat with the ice and rock salt as previously. Secure the lid just as you did with the smaller can on the 2nd time.

Roll can on floor for another 15 minutes. Open large can and remove from small can from large can. Open the small can, scrape down sides again. The ice cream can now be served or if you wish it to be more firm, simply place the small can directly into your freezer for a few hours. Category: Dessert Cuisine: American. Recipe Card powered by.

Plus while you are rolling the can back and forth to make the ice cream you can work in a quick science lesson. Discuss the changing states of matter, chemical reactions, and the properties of ice and salt while working for your dessert. On their own, each ingredient would not stay isolated in a smooth, continuous form. In order for these four ingredients to turn into ice cream, they all must be frozen and whipped simultaneously and then kept cold so that the ingredients don't glom together.

There are actually two opposing chemical reactions happening at the same time. When ice absorbs energy, it changes the phase of water from a solid to a liquid. The ice absorbs energy from the ice cream ingredients and also from your hands as you roll the can.

Conversely, the liquid ingredients inside milk, cream are turning into a solid ice cream as the molecules in the liquid slow down and eventually freeze in place. NOTE: For this recipe to work, the cans need to be aluminum and it can be tough to find coffee in a true tin or aluminum can anymore.

Most coffee cans are now made of plastic or cardboard. If you aren't having any luck on the coffee aisle, you can try the canned fruit and vegetable aisle. Ice Cream in a Can. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights.

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