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Blackberry Snow Ice Cream

Nicole Hood — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:36:06 +0000

Snow ice cream is one of our favorite winter treats to make on our freezing cold snow days!

It is so easy to make with just 5 ingredients including fresh clean snow.

Today we switched up our traditional vanilla and chocolate flavors and made Blackberry Snow Ice Cream topped with fresh berries and sauce.

Blackberry Snow Ice Cream

Makes a BIG mixing bowl full of ice cream!

Ingredients

8-10 cups fresh soft snow
1 can {7oz} sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup blackberry sauce or syrup plus more for drizzling
1/2 cup blackberries for topping

Instructions

Start with a large chilled bowl.
Stir together condensed milk, vanilla, and blackberry sauce.
Add scoops of snow, stirring until combined.
Continue adding as much snow as you need until you get the ice cream-like texture you want {leave some chunks or it will be slushie}.
Drizzle with additional blackberry syrup and top with fresh blackberries.
Serve right away.

Notes

*Don't place in the freezer or it will turn into a block of ice!

Four basic ingredients + a big bowl of fresh snow are all you need for this fun dessert!

Start with a large chilled bowl and stir together condensed milk, vanilla, and blackberry sauce.

This is a great recipe to have your kids help make.

You will need a big mixing bowl full of fresh clean show.

We set a bowl out on our patio table when we know we are going tog et a lot of snow.

Add scoops of snow to the bowl of milk and sauce, stirring until combined.

Continue adding as much snow as you need until you get the ice cream-like texture you want.

Leave some chunks or it will be slushie.

Drizzle with additional blackberry syrup and top with fresh blackberries.

Serve right away.

Enjoy your frosty treat and winter snow day!

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Maple Snow Candy

Nicole Hood — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 13:30:00 +0000

We woke up this morning to another beautiful SNOW DAY!

I am truly lovin’ the peaceful blanket of snow covering our neighborhood, but I may be going a little stir crazy! This time last year we were in Texas and it was HOT, y’all! Like tank tops and flip flop weather! So besides our typical movies and board games, I decided to stock up on snow themed library books to read with my girls.

One that the girls and I really enjoyed was called Cold Snap. It includes a recipe for Snow Candy so we decided we had to make our own. It was soooo good.

All you need is snow and hot maple syrup and you can make this tasty winter treat too!

The many faces of Ava enjoying her Snow Candy!

Maple Snow Candy

Ingredients

1/4 cup maple syrup
medium bowl of fresh snow

Instructions

Bring maple syrup to a boil in a small saucepan.
Drizzle hot maple syrup lightly over the snow.
Use forks to eat this sticky sweet treat right away!

How fun are kids books that include recipes and crafts?!

My kiddos and I love to cook food inspired by stories we read or movies we watch so this was a perfect snow day activity.

I always keep a bottle of real maple syrup on hand.

Not just for pancakes but also for vinaigrettes and dessert toppings.

Bring in a bowl of fresh clean snow.

This is a recipe you can all share out of one larger bowl

or add snow to small bowls for individual treats.

Bring maple syrup to a boil in a small saucepan.

Drizzle hot maple syrup lightly over the snow.

Ava liked helping make this treat …..

….and eat it too!

Use forks to eat this sticky sweet treat right away!

You can add as little or as much syrup as you want .

But it does melt and loose the snow texture if you pour on too much too fast!

Happy Snow Day!

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Strawberry Snow Ice Cream

Nicole Hood — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0000

We got more snow than we EVER have before so we made a big bowl of our family favorite: Snow Ice Cream! This time we made strawberry flavored and it was the best yet!

Also check out my Vanilla and Chocolate Snow Ice Cream recipes if you want to try different flavors.

Prep your ingredients {you only need a few} and chill your bowl beforehand. Then all you need is fresh snow and you can make this easy winter dessert in minutes!

We got lucky and had not one but two full snow days last week. This was the most snow we have gotten since moving to Missouri in October and we loved it. Funny how everyone here is so “over” the snow and my girls and I are crossing our fingers for more! Their Dad was home and along with our sweet pup Dylan we made snow men, painted snow, and went sledding. It was a blast!

Our snowman, Mr Tie Dye, was our biggest -and most colorful- yet!

I found these snow paint kits last week at Goodwill for $1!
The girls loved them {although the red paint did end up looking like a crime scene on the snow}.

Dylan dog looking handsome in the snow. He is Florida born like me so he is not super excited about the cold wet stuff but he will sniff around and chase the girls on the sled for a bit.
Then he’s ready to lay by the fire inside!

Strawberry Snow Ice Cream

Makes a BIG mixing bowl full of ice cream!

Ingredients

8-10 cups fresh soft snow
1 can {7oz} sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup strawberry sauce
1 cup diced strawberries
1/2 cup strawberries sliced

Instructions

Start with a large chilled bowl.
Stir together condensed milk, vanilla, strawberry sauce, and diced strawberries.
Add scoops of snow, stirring until combined.
Continue adding as much snow as you need until you get the ice cream-like texture you want {leave some chunks or it will be slushie}.
Top with sliced strawberries and serve right away.

Notes

Do not place in the freezer. It will freeze into a block of ice.
We learned that the hard way.

Start with a big bowl of fluffy fresh snow. I leave a large bowl on our patio table when it starts to snow then bring it inside when we are ready to mix up some snow ice cream.

You will need a large chilled mixing bowl to add your ingredients too.

Some recipes call for milk and sugar but I think it is easier {and tastes better} to use sweetened condensed milk.

Stir together condensed milk, vanilla, strawberry sauce, and diced strawberries.

Then start to add scoops of snow.

Stir gently until combined.

Continue adding as much snow as you need until you get the ice cream-like texture you want

{leave some chunks or it will be slushie}.

Top with sliced strawberries.

Serve right away and enjoy.

This recipe makes enough to feed a crowd {or a bunch of really hungry kiddos}.

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