Ice Cream in a ball?!

Have you ever tried to make your own ice-cream? How about getting some exercise before eating them?

Well, now you can "have cake and eat it too" with one of these jewel toned Ice-cream balls. It takes a lot of "elbow grease" to make your personalized flavoured ice cream, but hey, it's well worth it!

Last weekend I brought this nifty novelty toy item, and couldn't wait to get the ingredient items from the supermarket. I ended up "shaking my booty" for a good 30+ minutes making a pint of less dense ice-cream/slushy. The trick is in the fat content of the cream you use:

cream fat content explanation and chart: http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/bakingtips.Frostings/Frostings.cfm

I think the MegaBall is way too big and too heavy to be tossed around and played with, this is also not a toy for kids since you wouldn't want them to a). injure themselves or someone else while tossing it around. b). crack the plastic shell on this ball.

But for a "silly Poohbear" like me, it's perfect! in fact, after shaking it around for 10+ min. I got bored and got on a step exercise machine and did a whole body workout while watching Tivo. Well, all that exercise got wasted when I ate the ice-cream later though. ^_^`