Snooooooow Delicious!

February 22nd, 2010

How have I lived in Wisconsin, nearly all my life, and never known about this deliciousness?

Snow ice cream. It’s simple. No fancy machines or gadgets necessary: Snow, milk, sugar…and whatever else, like chocolate sauce, or sprinkles, or fruit, or brown sugar and cinnamon and nuts, or ???

Here’s what we did. Fill a cereal bowl with about a cup of clean snow, pack it down well (the Madison, WI, snow is perfect right now) and add more if there’s room in the bowl. Add sugar (1TB), unsweetened cocoa powder (1/2 TB), and heavy cream (about 1/4 c to 1/2 c … wait, guess that would be 1/3 c). Stir it up. Eat. Repeat.

My kids told me I should go out and get my own bowl, and stop tasting theirs. So I did. I mixed mine instead with chocolate soy milk. It was fab, and the calorie count’s a little sweeter on the waistline (heavy cream is, gulp, 50 cals per TB with 3.5g sat fat, 20mg protein, 0 sugar and protein):

1 cup snow
1/2c chocolate soymilk
90 cals
1.75g fat
.5g sat fat
7g sugar
4g protein
0 cholesterol

Thank you Mama Theresa for cluing me in (my kids bless you for it, my waistline may curse you if the snow keeps accumulating!).

It’s a new reason not to shovel. Enjoy!

—Mama Kate

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