How to Make Dining Hall Snow Cones
In 2014’s Ultimate Dining Hall Hacks (Storey Publishing), author Priya Krishna showed college students 75 ways to mix and match dining hall ingredients to concoct marvelous meals. Example: You want cheesecake, but only chocolate cake is available. Solution? Place a sugar cookie in a mug, top it with a few dollops of cream cheese, finish with strawberry jam, and you’ve got cheesecake in a cup. As the school year is almost over, we’re sharing five of Krishna’s hacks throughout this week. Finish strong, students!
Illustration by Jude Buffum
Snow Cones
I love snow cones because they are like summer in a cup. If you don’t have crushed ice at your dining hall, you can crush the ice in a blender if you have a smoothie station. I like adding gummy bears into my snow cone (a little inspiration from my fifth-grade-literature-teacher-turned-snow-cone vendor) to get a chewy surprise with each bite.
Ice (crushed, if you have it)
Fruit Punch
Sugar
Gummy bears, optional
Equipment
Ice machine or blender
If the ice is not already crushed, process it in a blender and put it in a soup cup, mounding it up higher than the rim.
Get a small cup of your favorite fruit punch and add a few packets of sugar to it.
Pour the fruit punch over the crushed ice. Only pour a little bit, otherwise you will just have fruit punch in a bowl.
Push a gummy bear (or more) into the center of the snow cone, if you’d like.
More hacks you can use:
Kitchen hacks for boxed cake mix
