ChillFactor Ice Cream Magic Tray

With the start of the summer holidays the boys were very excited for The ChillFactor Ice Cream Magic Tray to arrive in the post. The Chill Factor from Character toys of course is well known for the slushy maker cups but now your children can make their own ice cream and in minutes too!

 The ChillFactor Ice Cream Magic Tray comes in a great portable kit. A metallic base in the main part needed for you to start your creations. Also included in the kit is a plastic knife, spatula/scraper, a jug and a little masher for crunching up chocolate or nuts. The kit has room for all of these, a small bowl, somewhere to store your nuts, place your jug when not in use and also to cut up your fruit on.

The instructions are on a sheet of paper included in the set and I will say you might struggle to read them! They are very very small!! The tray needs to filled with a saline solution first and frozen for 4-6 hours before you can start. We left ours in the freezer overnight till we were ready.

The ice cream is made up from normal cream and they advise adding a syrup if you want for flavour. I’m not a huge fan of syrups to we added in chopped up flakes instead! The boys chopped up some bananas and dried fruit while they waited the couple of minues for the cream to set. It’s a little fiddly as the cream mixture (prechilled before pouring on the prefrozen tray) has to be poured in a zig zag on the tray to make sure it’s even. The boys needless to stay tried this once then counted be bothered the second time. It still worked though. Use the spatula to mix up the cream mixture ready for eating. The longer you leave the mixture on the ChillFactor Magic Ice Cream Tray the thicker the ice cream becomes. I have to say we can highly recommend choc flake ice cream! We did try with fruit but couldn’t get the cream to set so chocolate it will have to be.

The boys had great fun playing with this but there was no way that we could make a large enough amount for them both to have a scoop as it were. They did enjoy it though and enjoyed the mixing up and ate a huge amount of fruit in the process! I did find it fiddly though and personally do prefer ChillFactors cups instead. The ChillFactor Ice Cream Magic Tray is suitable for children aged 3+ and available from Character toys priced £19.99