{"id":163,"date":"2007-09-19T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-09-19T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T20:39:34","slug":"mexican-vanilla-ice-cream-in-a-play-freeze-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Vanilla Ice Cream (in a Play &#038; Freeze ball)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3507.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3507.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of the kids had a friend (or a cousin, as the case was for Girl) spend the night a couple of weeks ago and we decided to let the kids make ice cream in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Play-Freeze-Cream-Maker-Ball\/dp\/B000S5XYI2\">Play &#038; Freeze Ice Cream Ball<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3506.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3506.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"262\" \/><br \/>\nWe had used this once before, on vacation, and it was a lot of fun.  The recipe that comes with the ball should be discarded &#8211; it makes a &#8220;soft serve&#8221; ice cream that is too soft to be worth all of the effort, in my opinion.  I would highly recommend making a custard-type recipe, instead (mine can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/2006\/11\/mexican_vanilla_ice_cream.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>), because it will make your finished product more like &#8220;real&#8221; ice cream.  Yes, it&#8217;s more effort, but you&#8217;re already going to the trouble of making homemade ice cream, so you might as well go ahead and make it good, right?<\/p>\n<p>The kids enjoyed using the ball-maker, although they do get a little tired\/bored toward the end of the 20 minutes or so of rolling the ball around that is required.  It also tends to be a little NOISY &#8211;  so noisy that just about the time that you&#8217;re ready to slice off your own ears with a mandoline to escape from all of the salty ice water rattling around, <em>voila<\/em>, you have ice cream.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3508.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_3508.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the kids had a friend (or a cousin, as the case was for Girl) spend the night a couple of weeks ago and we decided to let the kids make ice cream in our Play &#038; Freeze Ice Cream Ball. We had used this once before, on vacation, and it was a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mexican Vanilla Ice Cream (in a Play &#038; Freeze ball)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}