5 Minute Homemade Almond Milk Ice Cream--& Chocolate syrup!

How does tasty, cold ice cream in 5 minutes sound to you? Well, we live in Southeastern Idaho and we only have about 2 months of hot weather so a lot of homes don't have a/c installed. We live in one of those homes. But with a few small fans and we get by. Yesterday my little girl was getting fussy and sweaty and not interested in the activities we normally do to calm her down. I needed to think of something that should could interact in as well as help beat the heat. So, we made a single serving of homemade almond milk ice cream. =)

Gather your ingredients:

1 cup unsweetened almond milk

1/2 tsp vanilla

You can use 1 tbs of raw sugar if you'd like (or equal amount of sugar substitute. However, I always use my homemade chocolate syrup with the ice cream so I omit the sugar altogether.)

Ice

5 tbs rock salt

Put the almond milk and vanilla into a sandwich size ziploc bag. I buy the cheap ones so I double bagged. Be sure they are zipped shut. Add the ice and the salt into a gallon size ziploc bag and put the liquid bag into the larger one with the ice. Zip shut and shake for 5 minutes. you'll end up with ice cream that is comparable to soft serve and will melt before too long. 

Here's where my little helper came in handy. I let her play with the bags and it amused her for a while. It was nice and cold to play with so that helped with it being so hot. She mainly tried to unzip the bag...Haha.
After I let her go at it for a couple minutes I took over and shook it into ice cream real fast.


For the chocolate syrup you'll need:
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup warm water
1/2 cup sugar or substitute equivalent
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 tsp vanilla

Pour warm water into small saucepan and whisk in cocoa powder until completely dissolved. Add sugar and stir to dissolve. Bring to a boil for three minutes over medium heat. You can use it immediately but you need to let it cool before transferring to a storage container. This yields 2 cups and stores best in a glass jar. We store the majority of ours in this handy squeeze bottle and the rest in a jam jar in the fridge. =) This way, it's easy for using as a topping, putting into drinks, and even a little decorating if I wanted.


Well, there you have it, what free things can you do with your kids??

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