The Great Snow Ice Cream Taste Test

When snow falls, it is time to enjoy a cold treat from the freezer, right? Well, in our house, ice cream is a treat enjoyed year-round.

So, when we had our (hopefully) last snow of the season we gathered a few gallons of clean snow and made snow ice cream. There are several recipes floating around and we thought it would be fun to have a taste test.

Here is recipe 1, which created the ice cream on the left.

1 gallon snow  
1 cup white sugar  
1 tablespoon vanilla extract  
2 cups milk

Recipe 2 was used in the ice cream on the right of this photo.

1 gallon snow
1 (14 oz) can of sweetened condensed milk

We tasted. Once, twice, three times to make sure we made an educated decision on this ever-important matter. And the results:

Emily and Megan liked recipe 1 best (because it reminds them of Grandma's homemade ice cream).

Matthew and I preferred recipe 2. 

Eli ate it all, offering no biases. Apparently he is an equal-opportunity ice cream devour-er!