What to do with all that snow

When the novelty of playing, sledding, shoveling and driving in those beautiful flakes wanes, do something new with them. Make winter ice cream!

We tried the recipe from the back of the potholder my five-year-old made for me for Christmas (with help from Grandma), shown below.
The recipe was about as good as any snow ice cream recipe probably is, which is to say that this exercise is more about the process than the result. Nothing wrong with that.

So you collect a big bowl of snow, maybe a quart. [Edited to add: Need I stipulate that this must be immaculately clean snow? Just in case, This Must Be Clean Snow. Now don't say I didn't tell you!] Stick it in the freezer while you whip 1/2 c. heavy cream with 4 T. sugar and 1 T. vanilla extract. You can get all Breyer's fancy and use real vanilla beans, but I recommend you keep this at the preschool level and save those beans for a good rice pudding or for real churned homemade ice cream in the summer. (Have hope; summer will come, someday.)

Then add the whipped cream mixture to your snow, being careful not to splash on any toys that may be strewn about.

Fold the whole mass together until pretty well mixed or you are tired. According to the recipe, the next step is to place the bowl in a snowbank until firm. This sounded too gimmicky for aforementioned five-year-old, or maybe he was just tired from playing out there all afternoon. So we used the freezer.

Serve for dessert to everyone who has eaten a good dinner.