Next time you have snow outside and kids inside, you will want to make this. Kids love, love, love snow cream, as you can see right here. Grownups love snow cream, too, so feel free to mix up a batch even if there’s not a kid in sight (though you will need snow).

1 cup milk

1/3 to 1/2 cup sugar, depending on sweetness preference

Few sprinkles of cinnamon (optional)

In a small bowl, combine the ingredients until sugar is dissolved.

Using a large bowl and large mixing spoon, collect fresh, clean snow from outside. Fill the bowl without tamping down snow. (It’s best to get more than you need; what you don’t use can be tossed back outside.)

In a medium bowl, add a few big scoops of snow. No need to measure. Slowly add a bit of the milk/sugar mixture, quickly stirring snow to absorb it. Add more snow and more milk mixture — ensuring all snow you add gets mixed into the sugary milk — until snow cream is the consistency of barely frozen ice milk or a soft-freeze sherbet of sorts.

Scoop into serving dishes and eat quickly because it melts fast!

Yum!