Beating the Heat part II

At the beginning of summer, we sat down and came up with our summer list. I never got around to posting it (of course not!) with all the busyness of June, but we have loved having it as our reminder not only of what we want to do but what we have done! Sometimes in the busyness, we forget to count our blessings.

Last Friday (we still do our Family Nights on Friday, best tradition ever!), we looked over our list to see if anything looked particularly appealing. We decided on......homemade ice cream!! We even took it one step further and made it with coconut cream making it dairy-free!

A couple of years ago, Todd's parents bought us this cute ball ice cream maker. Since it isn't electric, it's very easy for the kids to be involved with and very hands-on.

First fill with your ingredients. It comes with a recipe book but we chose plain vanilla so our ingredients were: 1 pint of coconut cream, 1/3 cup sugar, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Oh so easy!

Yummy :)

The other end opens also so you can fill it with ice and a bit of sea salt.

Then you roll it, shake it, or otherwise mix it around until it's setting up, scrape it into a freezer container and place in the freezer until it is your preferred consistency. It reminds me of soft-serve ice cream when you take it out of the ice cream maker.

 We wanted to do something special with it this year so...

Homemade ice cream sandwiches! Gluten-free chocolate chip cookies and dairy-free ice cream, yum!