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Homemade Shark Ice Cream

This fun, homemade shark ice cream is perfect to celebrate shark week or just as a fun summer treat! Easy to make and customize with your own flavoring!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword dessert, ice cream, kid-friendly, shark, themed
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 15 minutes
Servings 12 bowls

Equipment

  • stand mixer
  • spatula
  • 9 inch square pan

Ingredients

  • 4 C heavy whipping cream
  • 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tub white icing
  • 1 drop blue gel food coloring
  • 10 shark gummies

Instructions

  • Pour the heaving whipping cream into the mixer with whisk attachment
    making shark ice cream with mixer
  • Add in flavoring if you'd like
  • Blend the mixture for 4 minutes on low and increase speed as the mixture thickens
  • Fold in the 1 drop of food coloring and can of sweetened condensed milk
    homemade shark ice cream
  • Pour half of the mixture into a 9 inch square pan
  • Drop some of the white icing into the mixture with a few gummie sharks. Do not stir or mix, just let it fall where you drop it
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  • Add the rest of the mixture on top
  • Top the mixture with shark gummies and blobs of icing
  • Freeze for at least 6 hours or overnight

Notes

You can add a flavor extract to the ice cream for more fun.  Try coconut, strawberry, or blue raspberry! 
You can use a hand mixer in place of the stand mixer.  You will just need to increase your mixing time to get the same results.