Dry Ice Makes Scary Good Soft Serve Ice Cream

Dry ice is often pulled out for its smokey, show-stopping appearance rather than its actual functionality. But it's actually great for making soft serve. It's a really easy trick for one of summer's best treats.
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Dry ice is often pulled out for its smokey, show-stopping appearance rather than its actual functionality. This soft serve dry ice tutorial from Chef Steps puts solid carbon dioxide right in the mix of things for a tasty recipe that'll have your friends saying, "Dry ice can do that?" Watch and learn how to whip dry ice into soft serve ice cream.

Blend your non-frozen ingredients together

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The recipe calls for 1000 g of whole milk, 100 g of cream, 225 g of sugar, 3.5 g of salt, 12 g of vanilla extract and and 95 g of milk powder.

Wrap two pounds of dry ice in a dish towel or apron

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And smash it up

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You want the texture to be "sandy."

Slowly mix the dry ice in with the blended ingredients

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"It starts to look like a big frothy milkshake," which is good. After five minutes of blending, the texture collapses into soft serve.

Scoop the ice cream into a piping bag

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And serve

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Hello, gorgeous.

Get every tip and see the dry ice smoke up the kitchen

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