Volcano Ice Cream Recipe - Mt. Ice-creamus

WARNING - Dry ice and hot water are fun, but please be careful while handling it and keep the kids at a safe distance.



Ingredients:

1. 1 and 1/2 gal of ice cream. I just got vanilla - but you can go what you like, chocolate chip might not be a bad choice.
2. Caramel 1 Jar
3. Pistachio crushed to bite size pieces - as much as you want.
4. Walnuts - as much as you want.
5. Sugar Wafers for craters.
6. Chocolate Fudge 1 Jar.

Volcano Structure:
This is what I had - but anything goes, all you need is height and a heavy base to keep the Center of Gravity within the volcano, especially useful if you need to transport the volcano 10 miles like I had to, thanks to Mother in Law

1. Volcano Base: I had a haagen daz tub (not the smaller one, bigger one). This has a nice round grooved base in which I could put the chimney.
2. Rice - I filled up the ice cream tub with rice to give a good heavy base. which would not shake.
   
3. Chimney - I had something similar to this for a chimney
4. Dry Ice Pellets - WARNING WARNING WARNING - this stuff is not for kids, and can burn pretty bad. You don't want the dry ice slab that you can get by the pound, you want dry ice pellets, DO NOT try to cut dry ice slabs. Find the source and buy this stuff as close to when you need it. Dry ice pellets are pretty cool to play with. I pound or two should do.
   
5. Steel Tumbler - that goes in the chimney. You want something that is
   

• Removable
• Can take hot water.
• and fits in the chimney.
  

Preperation:

Put the volcano base and stick it your serving plate. Inverted. Sitck the chimney on top. So that is one tall - solid structure with the serving plate.

Pull all your icecream is a baking tray or some large container, let it become a bit soft, put your toppings (caramel, pistachio, walnuts and mix it with the ice cream). Use gloves, and mould the icecream in shape of a volcano.

Refreeze - the ice cream volcano with the serving plate in the freezer. You need some advance preparation to make sure everything fits in the freezer.

At serving time:
Arrange the craters. Pour some fudge on top of these. Thanks Ramya.
Pour fudge for lava flow - I used brown lava - try to get something red. I dont like cherry much, so did not use that.
Boil hot water - put it in the steel cup, place the steel cup in the chimney. put dry ice pellets in it and enjoy.

If you do this send me some pictures :) and describe your concoctions.