Edible Comets!
Purpose:
The purpose of this activity is to make edible comets, i.e. ice cream! Yummy!
Audience: This activity is suitable for adults, college age students and grade school kids. Everybody likes ice cream!
Activity:
Ingredients:
- 4 Quarts of whipping cream
- 3 full styrofoam cups of sugar
- ~6 ounces of Hershey's chocolate syrup (to make the comet dirty)
- ~12 ounces of chocolate chips (to simulate bits of rock and dirt)
- ~2 liters of liquid nitrogen
Mix together the whipping cream, sugar, chocolate syrup, and chocolate
chips. Add the liquid nitrogen until the mixture freezes. Scoop into
syrofoam cups and enjoy.