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    My SIL had a great idea the other day, and as soon as he mentioned it, I had to run with it!  He told me that since it is too hot for Hot Cocoa Bombs now, I should do the opposite and have Ice Cream Bombs!  I thought, "What a great idea!  Little nuggets of ice cream, just the perfect size for children or dieters or to eat as many as you want of the various flavors!  

    In the next few minutes, I was off to the store to get the ingredients that I knew I would need:

• Any flavors of ice cream that you want. We used strawberry, mint chocolate chip, salted caramel, cherry vanilla and vegan chocolate cookies and cream. 
• Chocolate chips,  I used milk chocolate and semi-sweet, but you can use whatever you like.  Just remember that the darker the chocolate, the more difficult it is to get the shells to work. 
• Fruit or candies for a surprise in the middle if you would like.  We used cherries, strawberries, Rollos, mini Junior Mints and mini Oreos. 
• sprinkles (of course)
• straws or stirring sticks or popsicle sticks or sucker sticks.  I love how cute the little straws are that I got at Dollar Tree.  I just cut them in half.  

You will also need your molds that you use for Hot Cocoa Bombs.  You can find them here. 

Making Ice Cream Bombs Part I:

1.     Just like the process of  making Hot Cocoa Bombs, you will need to make the shells and harden them in the freezer.  They will take about half an hour to harden.  If you haven't made Hot Cocoa Bombs, go to this post to find out how to do it.  You can also purchase our instruction booklet here.  For Ice Cream Bombs, I would try to make the shells thinner than you might for Hot Cocoa Bombs because when they are frozen, you want to be able to bite through the chocolate.  It may take some practice to get them just right.  Thick enough not to break when you remove them from the molds, yet thin enough to bite through. 
2. While the shells are hardening, get your fruit and/or candy surprises ready and in the last 5 minutes before getting out your shells, soften your ice cream slightly.  Not too much, but so you can scoop it out fairly easily and form it to the mold.
3. When the shells are hard, pop them out of the molds.  Fix any holes and put them back into the molds.  
4. Now, fill your molds halfway full with ice cream, add your surprise center and then fill the rest of the way with ice cream.  Of course, you can make them without surprise centers, I just like surprises.
5. Put in your stick, then put them in the freezer to harden for an hour or so.  (You may have to maneuver your stick around your surprise center.)

Making Ice Cream Bombs Part II:

1. After the ice cream is well hardened, cover it with chocolate all around the straw or stick that you used.  Let that harden again. 
2. When they are all frozen solid, pop them out of the molds and apply sprinkles.  I found that the best way to apply the sprinkles was to hold the ice cream pop over the flame of the stove for about 2 seconds and then to dip them into the sprinkles.   
3. To serve them, I put ice in the bottom of a bowl and then set a plate over the ice.  The Ice Cream Bombs looked so fun stacked on that plate and they stayed contained in the bowl! 

​Eating Ice Cream Bombs:

     When you go to eat these tasty little nuggets, I've found that the best trick is to use the base around the stick as it is intended, a base to keep the ice cream in place.  When you bite through the chocolate at the top and begin to eat it and the inner ice cream, it can all sit on the base without falling all over the place.  Then, you have the nice chocolaty base to finish it all off.  So, be sure to stick that chocolate base to the stick very well!  
     My favorite chocolate was the milk chocolate, but my SIL says he prefers the semi-sweet.  What do you think? 

     I have a refrigerator on my back patio where I keep drinks and snacks.  My grandchildren like to get out popsicles and eat them during the summer.  Last summer I found a sticky puddle in the refrigerator to clean up because my little grandson had put the rest of his popsicle in the fridge thinking it would keep it cold for later! Ha Ha! Hopefully this summer these cute little Ice Cream Bombs will get all of the way eaten with no leftover mess! (Chocolate and not mess? Ha!)  I hope that you will give them a try, too! 
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Other Ice Cream Treat Ideas you may love for this Summer:

• Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
• Brownie Baked Alaska With Swiss Meringue
• Favorite Ice Cream Toppings and a Hot Fudge Recipe
• The Perfect Root Beer Float
• Banana Split Day
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    Summer break is nearly here! 
     While my children are all grown with children of their own, I am going to have a few of my grandchildren with me again this summer!  Time to brush off my "keeping kids entertained and learning" skills!
    No one wants their kids to become zombies, attached to their screens all summer allowing their brains to become mush.  It is time to get planning some fun, educational and exciting  activities that will keep the kids engaged, growing and best of all keep the adults happy as well! We're here to help you Kick-Off a Great Summer! 
      

     Have you ever watched the Food Network Show called Chopped?  It is really fun to watch and when the contestants pull out the weird ingredients that that have to cook with, we like to try to figure out what we would make with them.  The joke around here is that I always figure out how to turn the ingredients into a pie! 

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      This Saturday is National Chocolate Chip Day AND National Sliders Day!  This recipe seems to fit the bill for both of those things!  Hope you enjoy it! 

    When you have grandchildren around like my husband I do this summer, you'll discover that it is important to have Popsicles and other cool treats on hand for the middle of a hot day stuck at home.  Those treats always seem to cheer everyone right up!  One day, I happened to find some chocolate cookie ice cream sandwiches on sale at the grocery store and they quickly became a favorite around here.  My grandkids and I decided to try to make a batch of our own!  They came out really good and delicious and making them together added to our fun! 
     We made our basic cookie recipe, but left out the butter and substituted all shortening because we didn't want the cookies to spread too thin. When they are made with shortening, they tend to stay a little thicker and hold their shape better.  We were also careful to use a cookie scoop filled just right so that our cookies would be uniform for the sandwiches.  My granddaughter became quite adept at it. 

    The kids couldn't decide if they wanted chocolate, vanilla or strawberry ice cream filling, so we bought Neapolitan and made everyone happy!  There are so many flavors to choose from!  I just kept it simple this time.  Personally, I would have chosen mint chocolate chip! 
       After the cookies were baked, we matched them up with each other for the sandwiches.  Next, I tore off the cardboard from the ice cream and sliced it into layers.  My grandson used a cookie cutter that was the same diameter as the cookies themselves to cut out circles of ice cream.  My granddaughter scooped them up with a little brownie server and placed them into the cookie sandwich.  I wrapped them up with plastic wrap and put them into the freezer.  We had quite the assembly line going! 

    We put the scraps of ice cream in a bowl and refroze them!  I have a special surprise using them coming on a post in the near future! 
      The cookie sandwiches froze up nicely! 

     As you can see, I wasn't too careful about the depth that I sliced the ice cream, so some of the sandwiches are thicker that others.  But, no one has complained yet! 
      Another nice thing about making these treats in advance, they are easy to pass out with no mess!  I hope you try this special summer treat!