Dry Ice Makes Scary Good Soft Serve Ice Cream

This post was written by Julianne Adams and originally appeared on Pixable.

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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Or a hacked plastic 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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