Patriotic Tie-Dye Ice Cream

We are going to have some tie-dye fun over the next few days, and I thought it would be fun to start with tie-dye ice cream for the 4th of July.

We used:

• 1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream (I actually used a little more than 1/2 gallon because I had a container that was almost empty so I just added that in with the new 1/2 gallon)
• cherry red Jello powder (approximately 9 TBSP)
• berry blue Jello powder (approximately 6 TBSP)

First, I sprinkled 3 TBSP of the red Jello powder in the bottom of a 2.75 quart rectangular Pyrex container.

Then, I spread 1/4 of the ice cream over that powder.

Next, I sprinkled 3 TBSP of the blue Jello powder over the first ice cream layer.

I continued layering ice cream and Jello powder until I ran out of ice cream.

Then I sprinkled 3 TBSP of red Jello powder over the top, put the cover on the container, and put it in the freezer for at least two hours.  Once it was frozen, I scooped it into dishes and called the kids for tie-dye ice cream.

This is the reaction it got from everyone who tried it:

I'm not sure if it was our flavor combination, but it tasted like cough syrup and some of the Jello powder was gritty in the ice cream.  It looks cool, and I was really hoping for success, but this was a failure.  Oh well, hopefully the rest of our tie dye activities are successful.

*The tie-dye ice cream recipe is from Family Fun Magazine.