Kayla's Crispy & Creamy Fried Ice Cream

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For this project I decided to explore how to keep the ice cream frozen and fry it at the same time




Introduction
I thought of this idea as something fun and delicious but the process was harder than I had planned for. There were a lot of things to understand before I began. I had to understand the components of ice cream and why it stays frozen in colder places and melt in warmer places. I found out, something we all know,TEMPERATURE affects if it stays frozen or if it melts. Ice Cream has a melting point of about 20^F and freezes between 6-10^F.  So the question came, how do I keep the ice cream creamy and frozen in the middle and Crispy and crunchy on the outside.


Chemistry Behind Fried Ice Cream 

When researching I found out about Evaporation: Once the coated ice cream comes into contact with the hot oil, any water found in it (e.g. the egg white, batter) evaporates and escapes from the surface of the food as steam. Steam pushes against the hot oil, preventing any of it from pushing into the food. And Conduction: As a result, the hot oil never touches the ice cream inside, and the only way the ice cream can be cooked is via heat conduction.

Recipe Ingredients 
  1. Eggs
  2. Pancake Mix
  3. Pilsbury Sugar Cookie Dough
  4. Ice cream of your choice
  5. Vegetable Oil
  6. Bag Of Marshmallow
  7. Lucky Charms Cereal
  8. Pot
  9. Ice Cream Scooper
  10. Metal Spoon (To lift the ice cream from the oil)
  11. Plate 

Steps
  • Let scoop of ice cream freeze for 24 hours
  • Warm up oil for 15 minutes
  • Prepare egg and pancake mix, Prepare marshmallow mixture by heating it up, Prepare cookie dough by rolling it out
  • coat the frozen ice cream ball
  • Put coated ice cream ball back in freezer for 5 minutes
  • take it out the freezer and drop it in oil
  • Pull up after 15 seconds and record it. 
Trails

  1.  Was not a success. The Pancake mix and egg combo, touched the oil, the ice cream melted and the egg burnt.
  2. Was a success. The cookie dough did come off a little bit but the ice cream did stay.
  3. Was success. The marshmallow lasted and the ice cream was still hard and frozen.
Results

Well my hypothesis was wrong. It turned out that the pancake mix and egg combo couldn’t keep the ice cream cold at all, within seconds it melted. I’m not sure how and why, When I researched information about fried ice cream, it came up that the egg was “protection” for the ice cream; it didn’t allow the oil to touch it. This was done through evaporation and conduction.






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