Apple Dew Crisp

This recipe is a combination of two recipes that I really like.  I just took a Apple Crisp recipe and tweaked it a little bit by adding in some of the ingredients of the Apple Dew recipe.  We all really enjoyed it.  I hope your family will too.

Ingredients

• 2 Granny Smith apples cored, peeled and chopped
• 3/4 cup Mountain Dew (diet or regular)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 cup sifted flour
• 1 cup quick or old-fashioned oats
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup melted butter or margarine

 Core and peel your apples and chop into small pieces.  Place in a bowl with the Mountain Dew.  Stir and refrigerate for 6-8 hours.  

 When apples are about ready, lightly butter an 8-in square pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix dry ingredients together in a medium sized bowl; blend in melted butter and vanilla.  

 Press 2/3 of mixture into bottom of pan.  

 Cover with apple mixture.  Sprinkle with remaining oat mixture.  Bake in 350 degree oven for 30-35 minutes or until lightly browned.

 Cool; cut into squares; serve topped with ice cream or whipped cream.

Makes 8-10 servings.

Ice Cream in a Bag

I found a recipe for making ice cream in Ziploc bags in a Family Fun magazine.  I think it was the June 2011 issue.  I found the recipe on their website, www.familyfun.go.com
 There is even an instructional video that you can watch.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup half and half
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup salt (The bigger the granules, the better. Kosher or rock salt works best, but table salt is fine.)

• Ice cubes (enough to fill each gallon-size bag about half full)
• 1 pint-size ziplock bag
• 1 gallon-size ziplock bag

Instructions:

1. Combine the sugar, half and half, and vanilla extract in the pint-size bag and seal it tightly.
   
2. Place the salt and ice in the gallon-size bag, then place the sealed smaller bag inside as well. Seal the larger bag. Now shake the bags until the mixture hardens (about 5 minutes). Feel the small bag to determine when it's done.
   
3. Take the smaller bag out of the larger one, add mix-ins, and eat the ice cream right out of the bag. Easy cleanup too! Serves 1.

We added chocolate syrup into Caleb and Simon's bags so that they would have chocolate ice cream. I would highly recommend washing your little Ziplocs off after removing them from the big bag. That way you don't have wet, salty fingers while eating your ice cream and maybe it will keep that salty water from dripping into your ice cream too.

 The boys had fun shaking their bags.  Josh won the award for the "Most Excited Shaker".

Even Simon shook his bag but he had lot's of help.

I scream!  You scream!  We all scream for ice cream!

The mustaches agree!  It's yummy!