Ice cream

With the hot weather, nothing beats ice cream and coke :P

Can't make coke at home, so made ice cream instead, without a ice cream maker.

The adventurous mommy did it one day in May when daddy is not at home.  This is using the long winded recipe which requires using of egg, and also freezing the mixture and then beating them, several times.

I followed a mix of the 2 recipes found here and here.  K wanted to join in, so I let her crack the egg and use her hands (washed thoroughly before that of course) to 'sieve' the egg white and egg yolk, beat the mixture, and even do the final act of breaking up the oreos and dropping them into the mixture.

I unintentionally curdle the mixture, is luckily is able to salvage it by beating it intensively to break up the mixture while adding the whipping cream (a solution found via googling, thank goodness!)

In the end, we manage to make enough for 2 boxes - one with and one without oreo pieces.  Of course throughout the 'making', Kathleen will keep asking me if she can eat it, and asked so many times throughout that weekend when I am in between the process of freezing and beating the mixture.

Kathleen with the 2 final product after freezing overnight

Enjoying the fruits/ice cream of her labour :)

close up - looks good and yummy right? :P

When the final product is ready, everyone eagerly tucked in.  Its yummy! :) Taste richer than supermarket variety.  Even fussy daddy likes it.  And then mommy brought one box to popo's place for all the yee yee to enjoy :)  Best eat fresh, by the way, because after one week, we can start tasting the ice cuticles while crunching the ice cream.

Then in July, mommy to let all the kids try out DIY ice cream using this recipe.  We had tins, ziplog bags for each kid.  Mix the mixture in the inner bag, and then put the ice cubes and salt in the outer bag.  The kids are supposed to shake so that the freezing outer ice mixture will freeze the ice inside, but in the end we gave up and put all the ziplock bags into the freezer at popo's place.  The outcome? Another yummy (but sinful) ice cream with just 4 simple ingredients ! :)

Kathleen with her ziplock of half eaten ice cream

Think this is so fun we will be doing it again soon :)