Rainbow Ice Cream

St. Patrick's Day is a perfect excuse to make multicolored foods using all the colors of the rainbow! Two years ago we had Rainbow Cupcakes, and last year we had Rainbow Waffles. This year for St. Patty's Day, I decided to try something a little colder...ice cream! It's actually perfect  for this year because we have had an unseasonably warm winter, and this week the temps have been in the upper 70's and lower 80's! I would say a March that warm calls for ice cream:) The really fun part about this ice cream is that it isn't just rainbow colored {like most of my other fun foods}, but it is rainbow flavored too...thanks to a little bit of jello!

 Start with a small box of jello in each color {red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple} of the rainbow and a big tub of vanilla ice cream.

 I tried to take step by step pics, but my ice cream was getting too melty every time I stopped to take pics {thank you warm March weather}. Luckily making Rainbow Ice Cream is an easy process. Simple scoop out a little {or a lot depending on how much you want to make} ice cream into a bowl. Add in a few teaspoons of the jello powder, and give it a good stir. I used about 3 big scoop of ice cream and 3 or 4 teaspoons of the jello mix for each of my colors. You can increase the jello to make the colors more vibrant, but just be aware that the jello does give the ice cream a bit of a grainy texture so don't add too much!

Layer the colored ice cream into a freezer safe container. I used a glass loaf pan because I thought it would be a great shape to cut off a slice of the rainbow:) Starting with the red, add each colored layer, then let it set up in the freezer for a while before adding the next layer. Or you can do it the quick way and add the layers one after the other...just be careful not to mix the layers if you do it this way!

 Place the dish in the freezer to harden. I think the addition of the jello made the ice cream take longer to harden. Be patient or you may end up with a melty mess:) I was actually very patient and let mine set up for a few hours, but I was worried about it getting stuck in the dish so I dipped the glass into warm water to loosen it up...except I warmed mine just a little too long! I was kind of sad when this drippy, melty, red mess came out of my pan....

 ...and when I tried to slice into it, I made an even bigger {though very pretty} mess!

But a quick {okay a couple of hours} trip back into the freezer made things all better, and I was able to cut off a pretty slice of Rainbow Ice Cream! This was such a fun and {relatively} easy rainbow treat to make. The hardest part was all the waiting...and now my toughest challenge is going to be making the boys wait another two days to enjoy this yummy treat on St. Patrick's Day:)

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Corndog Pancakes

Last week {I think maybe Tuesday} was National Pancake Day. I can thank twitter for that knowledge... unfortunately I didn't see it until after the boys had eaten cereal for breakfast and headed off to school. If you've been around my blog long, then you know that a food holiday is the perfect excuse for me to make something fun and yummy. But I didn't want to just do plain old pancakes for dinner on National Pancake Day. No, we needed something new, something fun, something not sweet for dinner. I saw Rachael Ray make Corndog Waffles a few weeks ago...and I thought, why not turn my pancakes into corndogs {or my corndogs into pancakes}! And so the Corndog Pancake was born:) Now I know it sounds kind of gross, but I promise they are AWESOME!

I started with a box of corn muffin mix. Any brand will do, but I love Jiffy brand because it's a sweet cornbread. There is a recipe on the side of the box for corn pancakes. Follow the recipe on the box Basically you add more milk than the normal recipe plus a little bit of melted shortening along with one egg, {I had to tweak mine a little because we were out of eggs, but they still turned out great} then mix up your corndog batter.

Next, cut up a couple of hot dog wieners. Any brand will do...whatever your family likes. Little rounds would be fun in this, but I am still paranoid about my kiddos choking on hot dogs so I cut my little rounds into halves.

Toss the cut up hot dog pieces into the batter and give them a good stir.

Heat up your griddle, spray it with non-stick spray, and then ladle on the batter. Watch for bubbles to form around the edges of the pancake. This batter is a little thicker than normal pancakes so it can take a little longer to cook, and it can be hard to tell when they are ready to flip. I just watched the edges and lifted up the side a little to see if they were ready to flip.

The corndog pancakes will turn a golden color and some of the hot dog pieces may get a little brown...that's okay it will make them taste even better:)

Plate them up and drizzle on a little bit of ketchup, mustard, or both.

These were so fun to make and seriously really yummy! I think the sweetness of the corn muffin mix is what made them so good! We are planning on doing a lot of cooking on the griddle when we are camping in the Airstream, and these will be added to the camping dinner schedule for sure:)

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