Summer is almost over and I realize that I haven’t made as many homemade ice creams and snow cones that I had planned to do. We have an old electric ice cream maker, sufficient, but I would love to have this one if I had the counter space (and money). We also have a little manual snow cone maker that we dug out of the depths of the kitchen cabinets at the beginning of summer. The best ice creams call for a custard (egg yolk) base but I’ve had success with simple recipes too.

We use bought syrups from Target and I found a neat website with recipes to embellish them with evaporated milk.  HawaiianShavedIce.com’s Recipes

Here’s a recipe for Simple Snow Cones

Ingredients

• 1 envelope of unsweetened kool-aid (any flavor)
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1/2 cup of cold water
• 2 qts of finely crushed/shaved ice

Put the kool-aid into a small bowl. Add the water and stir until mixed and sugar is dissolved. Serve over the crushed/shaved ice.

For ice cream, I’ve found that Ice-CreamRecipes.com seems to have everything.

For Popsicles…Recipe Chic has some tasty-sounding and looking recipes.

Stay cool!