Spring has finally graced us all with its long anticipated arrival. The cherry blossoms are in bloom and students are digging out their flip flops again. Activities Program Board (APB) helped students celebrate the warm weather by hosting a do-it-yourself (DIY) ice cream event Friday afternoon.
Travel and Recreation Chairperson Tyler Leschinsky, Multicultural Affairs Chairperson Claudia Prieto and general APB member Jessica Roberts hauled a long table and coolers out to the sunny Ceddia Union Building Amphitheater to provide students with a free frozen treat.
APB found an easy, three-ingredient recipe from food.com to make vanilla ice cream. The actual ice cream only calls for milk, sugar and vanilla, but you also need one sandwich Ziploc bag, a one-gallon Ziploc bag, three cups of crushed ice and one-third cup of rock salt to make it.
Students put the milk, sugar and vanilla in the sandwich bag and zipped it tight. The crushed ice and rock salt went into the bigger plastic gallon bag. Students then put the filled, smaller bag that was closed inside and sealed the second bag shut.
To make the ice cream, students squeezed the bag for about 10 minutes to solidify the liquid mixture inside the smaller bag. Leschinsky advised, “Don’t squish it too hard because the little bag will break.”
Prieto described the process as “making ice cream by fast freezing the milk.”
Sophomore Jacqueline Gartner said that the final product was worth the work. “It’s refreshing,” she said. She also mentioned how it was a fun science experiment.
This event brought APB’s DIY series to a close. They held programs every Friday throughout the semester for students to create various projects, such as DIY accessories, crayon art, lava lamps, bowties and mugs.
DIY ice cream is ideal for college students because it leaves no dirty dishes behind - just dispose of the bags when you finish.
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