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Best Ice Cream Makers for a Cool Homemade Treat

Skip the trip to the ice cream parlor and make your sweet treats at home
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Ready for an ice cream break at home? Try these ice cream makers. Pixabay

To every season, churn, churn, churn. Remember rock salt and ice cubes? Those 20th-century ice cream makers required all that cranking, too. But the sweet, creamy, delectable, ice cream was always worth the work. The heavenly summertime treat doesn’t have to be relegated to one season anymore. Rich, flavorful ice cream is available in your kitchen all year round.

Cuisinart ICE-70 Electronic Ice Cream Maker, Brushed Chrome, Ice Cream Maker with Countdown Timer, With Countdown Timer

Perfect results

One button is all you need with this product to make these cold treats. Cuisinart

They’ve improved the paddle and we’re glad. Previously it left hard ice cream on the edges of the processing bowl, and well, someone had to eat it. Try strawberries from the farmer’s market or peaches from the orchard for adding succulent fruits to ice cream or gelato in this handy maker. (The difference between the two is that ice cream has more air and a higher fat content than gelato.) With the included recipe book, three settings for ice cream, frozen yogurt, and gelato, and an auto-stop function when your dish is complete, getting some sumptuous ice cream is a cinch.

Dash My Pint Electric Ice Cream Maker Machine for Gelato, Sorbet + Frozen Yogurt with Mixing Spoon & Recipe Book (Organic, Sugar Free, Flavored Healthy Snacks + Dessert for Kids & Adults) 0.4qt-White

Just add a cone

At just under one pound, it’s simple to take this little appliance with you in the dorm, RV, or on the boat. Dash

One of the joys of making your own ice cream is that you can experiment with the flavors. Looking for something to do with those extra chocolate chips? Have you tried peanut butter ice cream? In just 30 minutes (as long as you’ve left the bowl in the freezer overnight) you can make a variety of frozen treats. And at 12 watts, it doesn’t draw much power either.

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Whynter ICM-200LS Automatic Ice Cream Maker 2 Quart Capacity Stainless Steel, Built-in Compressor, no pre-freezing, LCD Digital Display, Timer, 2.1

Quick operation

The deep freezing action of this ice cream maker, which goes down to -31 degrees F, makes two quarts of frozen treats fast. Whynter

It’s nice to skip the need for pre-freezing so you can make a batch whenever you’re craving frozen yogurt, ice cream, or sorbet. How about whipping up some blueberry lemon gelato? It’s easy to do in this ice cream maker. The LCD panel makes timing your sweets simple, and the motor shuts off to keep the mixture from freezing solid. The stainless steel construction means this ice cream maker is strong enough to last for years. It’s also easy to clean, which we all appreciate.

Nostalgia WICM4L Electric Ice Cream Maker Makes 4-Quarts, Frozen Yogurt, Gelato in Minutes, Made from Real, Light Wood

Newer isn’t always better

The powerful electric motor churns without all the cranking. Of course, you can make any type of frozen concoction with this blast from the past. Nostalgia

All you need for chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream is included in this retro set. The jumbo four-quart, also known as one gallon, capacity makes enough for the whole team. Just pour in the ice cream kits that come in all three Neapolitan flavors, and cool in the aluminum canister surrounded by ice and rock salt.

Dash DIC700AQ 2-in-1 Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt, Sorbet + Popsicle Maker with Easy Ingredient Spout, Double-Walled Insulated Freezer Bowl & Free Recipes, 1 quart, Aqua

Frozen treats of all sorts

It’s fun to experiment with different organic fruit combinations like a delicate pear and lemon balm sorbet. Dash

We enjoy how all the accessories are included in this set. Mixing bowl, popsicle molds, and multi-use sticks, a recipe guide, and access to their online frozen treat database. Add some sweetness to birthday parties, weekend afternoons, and backyard barbecues with these amazing ice cream delicacies. It’s easy to craft cool sweets for special diets with this machine, too. You can make healthy yogurt-pops with no added sugar. Just one button on the top of the machine does it all.

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Cyndi Mathews is a contributing writer to Florida Travel & Life, an online brand that inspires active, affluent travelers, providing them with insider information on discovering the best of Florida. Informative and engaging, the website showcases travel destinations, arts and cultural venues, vibrant dining scenes, recreational activities, the great outdoors and the revitalized real-estate market. Cyndi recently published her first book and enjoys traveling to Florida in her sailboat.

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