Welcome to My Kitchen: A Fun Experiment with Ice Cream Making

It's a beautiful day here in sunny California, and I'm excited to share a fun experiment with you all today. As I was flipping through my new book, "Super Good Baking for Kids," I came across an ice cream recipe that caught my attention. The best part? You don't need an ice cream machine to make it! Instead, we're going to use a little science trick to create our own ice cream at home.

The Science Behind Making Ice Cream without an Ice Cream Machine

So, how does this work? It's quite simple, really. We're going to use salt and ice together to lower the freezing temperature of the water. This will get our liquid extra cold, which is perfect for making ice cream. When we shake the mixture in a plastic bag, it's going to freeze inside the bag, turning into ice cream. It may sound a bit weird at first, but trust me, once you try it, it makes total sense.

Making Ice Cream with Any Flavor You Want

The best part about this recipe is that you can make it any flavor you want! Want chocolate ice cream? Add some cocoa powder! How about mango flavored ice cream? Get those flavorings from the store and add them in. The possibilities are endless, and I'm excited to share my own creation with you all today.

My Choice of Flavor: Blueberry Cake Donut Ice Cream

For this experiment, I've chosen to make a blueberry cake donut flavored ice cream. Blueberry cake donuts are my absolute favorite, and the best ones come from 7-Eleven. So, what did I do? I got a bunch of blueberry cake donuts from 7-Eleven, chopped them up, and let them sit out overnight to evaporate all the moisture. This will help to intensify the flavor of the donuts.

Preparing the Ingredients

Before we start making our ice cream, let's prepare the ingredients. We'll need half and half milk, sugar, salt, and vanilla extract. I'll mix these together in a bowl until the sugar dissolves. Next, I'll pour the mixture back into one of the containers. Now it's time to add the chopped donuts! This is where the magic happens – the flavor from the donuts will start to come out.

Assembling the Ice Cream Mixture

Now that we have our ingredients ready, let's assemble the ice cream mixture. I'll pour the sugar milk donut mixture into a plastic bag, making sure it's nice and tight. Next, I'll add half of the ice to the bag, followed by some ice cream salt. This is where the science comes in – the ice and salt will lower the freezing temperature of the water, creating an ideal environment for our ice cream to form.

Shaking the Mixture

Now it's time to shake the mixture! I'll gently move the bag around until the ice cream starts to freeze inside. This process may take a few minutes, but trust me, it's worth it. As you move the bag and it freezes at the same time, those tiny little ice crystals will start to form, giving our ice cream its smooth and creamy texture.

Finishing Touches

After about seven minutes of shaking, I'll remove the bag from the freezer for about 20 minutes to let it firm up a bit. This is where we can finally see the result – my blueberry cake donut ice cream! It's still a bit soft, but that's okay. We just need to break off some pieces and add them to our bowls.

Adding Toppings

Now that I have my bowl of ice cream, it's time to get creative with toppings! I'll start by adding some whipped cream that I've made earlier. Then, I'll sprinkle some blueberry cake donut holes on top – because what's ice cream without a little crunch? Finally, I'll add some fresh blueberries and raspberries for color and extra flavor.

The Result

And there you have it! My homemade blueberry cake donut ice cream, made with love and a little bit of science. It's still a bit soft, but that's okay – after all, ice cream is meant to be enjoyed at room temperature or slightly chilled. I hope you've enjoyed this experiment as much as I have, and I'd love to hear your own experiences with making ice cream without an ice cream machine!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going everybody Welcome to my kitchen here in sunny California it's a warm day today  and so I was flipping through my new book uh super good baking for kids and I saw an ice cream recipe  that looked really good and I was like wait a minute I don't have an ice cream machine  but the cool thing about this recipe you don't need one all right this is really exciting so  what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a little science experiment where we're gonna make ice  cream by putting salt and ice together to lower the freezing temperature of the water and what  that's going to do is that's going to get your your liquid extra cold so when we're shaking the  ice cream it's gonna actually turn into ice cream it's going to be cold enough to freeze inside of a  plastic bag it's really cool I know it's not it might sound a little weird like as I'm you know  explaining it but once we do it it's totally gonna make sense okay now here's the thing you can make  this ice cream any flavor you want you can add cocoa powder to it you can make it chocolate you  can add some strawberries to it bananas to it you can like get some flavorings from the store if you  want to get like you know mango flavored or you can make any flavor you want what I'm gonna make  is a blueberry cake donut Flavor now blueberry cake Donuts are my favorite cake Donuts in the  world and the best ones come from 7-Eleven so what I did was I got a bunch of blueberry cake  Donuts from 7-Eleven and I chopped them up and I let them sit out overnight so all the moisture  evaporates now the thing about these Donuts you could really smell like the fake blueberry flavor  and that means that when you make the ice cream you're gonna get all that fake blueberry flavor  okay so if you're going to be using donuts you have a little bit of homework you have to chop  up the donuts and let them sit out overnight or you can put them in the oven at 350 degrees for  like 10 minutes and that will also get rid of the moisture all right let's get started so the  first thing we're going to do is take half and a half in milk and pour it into a bowl  now I'm going to take the sugar and the salt and vanilla okay I'm going to mix this all upall right you just want to make sure that that Sugar dissolvesall right nowI'm going to take this liquid pour it back into one of these containers  there we go all right so I'm going to add the donutsokay now I got a quart back I'm going to open up the bagvery carefully pour in the sugar milk donut mixture just like that make sure that this is  nice and tight just like that all right so let that sit what's going to happen is the  flavor is going to come out of the donuts well that's sitting on the counter I'm going to fill  this bag up with some ice I'm going to take about half of this ice and put it in this bag  okay a little bit more now I'm going to take half of this ice cream salt  and pour the ice cream salt in thereall right now I'm going to take the bag that has the ice cream mixtureand put that on top of this ice  and now I'm going to take the rest of the ice and put it on top of the ice creamokayand now the rest of the saltall right and nowget this nice and tightjust like thatand Shake It shake it for seven minutesshake shake shake shake shake shake this is it seven minutes now the reason why you have to  keep it moving is because ice is a crystal ice cream is a crystal if you just let this freeze  just like this you would get one huge Crystal like an ice cube and that's not what you want  ice cream to be you want ice cream to be soft and smooth and creamy and the way that you get  that is by having very very small ice crystals so as you move this when you move it and it's  moving and freezing at the same time all those little ice crystals are banging into each other  and shearing off so you're getting lots of little tiny ice crystals instead of one big stupid oneall right so I am going to shake this gently for about  seven minutes and I will see you when it's doneokay so now we're gonna do is we're gonna take  this and you're gonna stick in the freezer for about 20 minutesyeah right so it's like really thick but it's not it won't hold its shape yetforeign so it's been about 20 minutes here's my ice cream and it's pretty firm  okay but it's going to get soft pretty fast so I'm just gonna yeah it's already  starting to get like a little mushy so I'm gonna break some off just like thisinto my bowlthere we go you can see it's not like snapping because those ice crystals are really really  small all right so now I got a bowl of ice cream now I have some whipped cream that I've made here  so put some of thatonto my ice cream that looks good and here are some blueberry cake donut holeshere's some fresh blueberries that I hadand then maybe a raspberry just for some colorand there you go plastic bag blueberry cake donut ice cream\n"