Wedding Day Snow Ice Cream

Hi everyone! Elsa here. Even though I got no requests for this craft, I'm doing it anyways. It's the snow ice cream that we made for Steve and my wedding, and I mentioned this recipe in my blog recently. We were able to catch this recipe from She. Turns out that she went north, so there's lots of snow up there to make as many snow ice creams as you wish. You can use real snow or snow created by magic, if you can. This easy ice cream recipe is both edible for humans and smell-able for dolls. Either way, it is a delicious wintertime treat for weddings or otherwise!

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Step 1: First, the above picture contains all the things you will need to make your snow ice cream.  Let me make a list:

- Two decent sized plastic cups

- A large plastic container or two (not shown)

- Two teaspoons

- One larger serving spoon

- Half and half (or an equal amount of milk and creamer)

- A flavored syrup of your choice (She used Torani syrup)

Step 2: Once you have all of that stuff gathered, you'll need to get your snow. Which is kind of an important ingredient of snow ice cream. If you don't have magic to make your snow, locate a safe spot in your yard where you know that the snow is clean and untouched by anything gross. The red glider bench on She's back desk was the perfect spot, since nobody ever sits there (I think it might be broken!) and it holds snow pretty well. The best snow for making snow ice cream is twenty to thirty degrees Fahrenheit. That way, it's cold, but also powdery and makes a good mix-in later.

Step 3: Take one of your other plastic cups from earlier and scoop up all that snow. Well, at least get enough to fill your cup. I don't really feel like I have to explain this any further. I trust all of you are capable of putting snow into a cup yourselves.

(Again, pretty self-explanatory. This is She's end result with the snow from the red glider bench in the two plastic cups. Of course, you may only need one cup/container depending on its size, but  at the time, She was also making the snow ice cream for her sister, hence using two. You can always change your recipe to fit one person if you're just making it for yourself.)

Step 4: Once you've got your snow in the cups, just leave them outside while you go back inside to prepare the other ingredients. After all, wintertime basically turns your backyard into a walk-in freezer already. So why not? Anyways, fill your indoor plastic cups with half and half, only about the height of a human's finger or a doll's hand. Of course, this depends on the size of your cup again, but even though the amount of half and half may vary, it's still pretty much the same, so I wouldn't worry.

Step 5: Next for the Torani syrup, or any other flavored syrup of your choice. You can even use chocolate syrup! She tried this once, but I think She prefers using the Torani brand, since She makes that one more often. For these pictures, She used the hazelnut flavor. Next, carefully pour the Torani syrup onto your teaspoon and put it in with the half and half in your cup. You'll want to do two teaspoons of this. If you have a really sweet tooth and don't mind stirring your mixture to dissolve it, you can always put one or two teaspoons of granulated white sugar in your cup, too, but we didn't do that, because Olaf plus sugar equals... I don't really want to find out.

Step 6: Now you can bring your snow cups from the outside freezer now. Using your bigger serving spoon, scoop the snow from your outdoor cup into your indoor one, stirring after each amount with your smaller teaspoon. Now this is where it gets important. The amount of snow that you shovel into your mixture will depend on the consistency of your ice cream. If you prefer soft serve ice cream, use less snow. But if you like your ice cream thicker, put in a lot. She uses almost all of the snow from her cup, but you don't have to. Also, another important thing. This snow ice cream is a lot colder than any regular ice cream, so just... just be aware of that. Wouldn't want you to get a brain freeze or anything.

Step 7: Once you're done with putting on the snow, stir, stir, stir! The best method is folding, which is using your spoon to bring stuff from the bottom onto the stuff on top, over and over. Also, take a look at the color changing cup She used! I just wanted to point that out. I thought that it looked pretty.

Step 8: Once you're done folding, you're good to go! This is what your ice cream should look like in the end if you followed all the steps correctly and used a flavored syrup with a light tint to it. I have to admit it looks pretty good. So go ahead and dig in, but not too quickly! Also, a quick trick for those humans out there who get frequent brain freezes, (dolls don't get them, ha ha!) whenever you have one, just pinch the top bridge of your nose.

Wishing you good snow for good ice cream,

Queen Elsa