My fiance’s mother told me about a recipe for ice cream bread she had found in Southern Living Magazine. Basically, you throw a pint of ice cream into a bowl, add a cup and a half of self-rising flour, and stir it up. Then you dump it all into a bread pan and bake it, and it makes “bread.”
Well, it’s PRETTY.
She used vanilla ice cream, and her “bread” reminded me of shortcake or biscuits. I used chocolate, and it reminded me of … chocolate biscuits. Sort-of. We both decided it needs to be eaten with jam.
I also decided it doesn’t ever need to be made by an adult. The flavor isn’t that rewarding, and it’s not hard to make things that taste good. Plus, there are better things to do with a pint of ice cream!
However, children would really enjoy the copious amounts of stirring required to incorporate the flour into the ice cream. This is also an extremely easy recipe to get kids started in the kitchen, and even practice some measuring skills. If you have a 3 year old child who wants to make something, this would be a really fun project for the two of you.
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what you need to do with this is swirl a caramel or fudge sauce into the batter.or just make the bread plain and top it with the sauce. jam works as well. the only problem with this recipe is that it’s not sweet enough.
Katie – The cake sounds way better… I’m still not sure I’d want to use my ice cream that way though. hehe.
Laura, I bet decorating gingerbread cookies or sugar cookies would be a blast. I LOVE gingerbread cookies, too… any time of the year. Now all I need is some kids. hah.
Sandra, I love making things in muffin pans. But I definitely agree about “not worth going out of your way for.” I’m also a huge fan of sticking things in waffle irons… but I don’t even think it would be worth it to tweak this. There are too many other things that make great waffles.
Eliza, it’s 350*F for 45 minutes, or until the center is done. (Test with a wooden skewer.)
How hot do you set the oven, and how long does it take to bake?!
That is just too cool!
I’ve seen this used in muffin pans. I hear it’s not sweet or flavorful enough, though. I always thought it would be a good way to use up melted ice cream or freezer burned ice cream, if you needed to get rid of it, but yeah, I hear it’s not worth going out of your way for.
That said… I wonder how it would be in a waffle iron… ice cream is very rich, and with some tweaking, it might be tasty.
My fail-proof cooking with kids project is gingerbread cookies. I let them pick the shapes and cut them out, and then I do the mixing and baking, and then set them up at a (plastic-lined) table, and let them go to town decorating the cookies. My cousins have always loved that. So, there’s another idea for cooking with kids!
You can also make ice cream cake….using a pint of ice cream for the liquids. I made a chocolate cake with “cherry garcia” as the ice cream — it was good….