So we pulled out one of our favorite resources.
I've posted different recipes from The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions before, but I think this was one of my favorites despite it not going perfectly.
What you will need:
gallon size zip top bag
smaller zip top bag to fit inside gallon bag
ice
salt (the recipe calls for rock salt, but I didn't have any so I used pickling salt)
Ingredients:
1 cup milk or half and half
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla or flavor of choice (we added a bit more than 1/2 tsp so I say add to taste)
For ease of adding the ingredients, I put the smaller bag inside a cup (I think I used a quart bag). Then had the girls add the sugar to the glasses.
Then they each added their flavor of choice. My daughter did the vanilla and her friend chose strawberry (sadly, we were out of chocolate syrup).
Then I measured out the milk and each girl poured it into their bag.
Then it was time for the ice. Each of the girls put one tray of ice cubes into their gallon size bags. The recipe says to fill half full but I don't have an ice maker so we made do with what we have.
Then I added 6 tablespoons of the pickling salt to each of the bags. Sorry, I couldn't snap pictures of this step and actually do it. While I did this, the girls mixed the ingredients in the small bag together.
After that it was time to zip the small bags up closed and add them to the gallon bags.
Then it was time for the fun. Shaking and moving the ice around the milk mixture in the small bags. The recipe calls to do this for 5 to 7 minutes so we set the timer and had fun shaking and squishing the bags.
My daughter's small bag ended up having a bit of a zipper issue and leaked a bit so her's didn't get as solid as her friends did. But they both ended up enjoying eating/drinking the finished product and we will try it again another day, hopefully with a more leak proof bag.
Next time, we will also try some chocolate flavoring since this is a chocolate house.
Happy snacking
Danielle
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