Let’s Eat Snow! Here Are Seven Snow Recipes

There are actually some lovely ways to use snow in making things to eat. Anne Nolin, a professor at the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, tells Popular Science it’s a perfectly safe attempt. “Everyone should eat snow because it’s really fun,” she says.

Nolin says that most snow is just as clean as any drinking water. Snow is formed as ice crystals cling to particles of dust or pollen, but Nolin says that these are the same tiny particles we normally breathe. Just avoid snow that has been on the ground for a while and has picked up dirt.

Here are seven recipes to try out with snow.

1. Vanilla snow ice cream

The how-to here calls for cream or milk and sugar; you can also use alternative sweeteners that are healthier than refined sugar. As showed above, making it outside will help it not to melt.

2- Vegan coconut maple snow cream

• 8 cups snow

• 1 can coconut milk

• 2 tablespoons maple syrup

Chill the can of coconut milk and remove the cream (or leave it on if you want a more decadent recipe). Put the snow in a bowl, mix the ingredients lightly stir until combined.

3-Sugar on snow

Heat maple syrup in a pan and sprinkle it in strips over packed snow. Because it cools so quickly, it does not have a chance to crystallize and instead, as if by alchemy, transforms into a taffy-like treat that can then be swirled onto a Popsicle stick.

4-Peppermint snow ice cream

While mixing cream and sugar as in the video on top is one way to go, if you have a can of sweetened condensed milk, you’re in luck. And if you happen to have some stray peppermint extract, even luckier.

• 8 cups snow

• 30 grams of can sweetened condensed milk

• 1 teaspoon peppermint extract

If you want, place the can of milk outside to chill. Put the snow in a large bowl, stir in chilled milk and peppermint, and lightly mix until combined.

5. Spicy honey candy with sea salt

• 1 cup honey

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• Cayenne pepper and sea salt to taste

Mix honey with vanilla and cayenne to the wanted level of heat. Pour honey in clean snow and roll them around with a spoon until formed into balls, remove from snow and sprinkle with sea salt.

6. Spiked Ginger-orange snow cones

If you need inspiration, try this recipe for Organic Ginger-Orange Cocktail Made with Bourbon and Sake that uses fresh ginger, bourbon, sake, orange juice and simple syrup. Instead of adding ice, sprinkle the concoction over scoops of tightly packed snow.

7-Hot cocoa snow slushie

 

This is a sample on the famously addictive frozen hot chocolate.

• 85 grams of your favorite chocolate 
• 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 3 cups snow
• Whipped cream