Automatic Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker (Pink)

I love this ice cream maker! It makes ice cream so quickly and easily. I love knowing what is in my food! It has a wonderful texture, the softserve is nummy, but it stays creamy when it freezed solidly. It is kind of noisy, but it only takes 15 minutes or so, so it is bearable. Very lightweight, and easy to clean and handle.

One button, on or off. Too simple. Cook up your fav gelato, ice cream or other frozen dessert recipe. Chill your cooked batch overnight in fridge. Keep the Cuisinart bucket in the freezer overnight. Fill it up with your chilled mix, turn it on and come back in fifteen minutes. Too easy. It's done when the ice cream is so cold it won't churn around anymore. The bigger choices are the recipes, but this machine will make it all. Forget wasting your time with machines with too many buttons and sensors, this machine works - it's simple and to the point and will probably last three decades. The recommended volumes in the Cusinart recipes are about 30% too much material and will overflow a bit, but it's easy to clean up and adjust the volumes for the next batch. Take notes. Lots of good recipe ideas on the web. There's even Marcella Hazan gelato recipes available online (in her book too.) Things to consider - how much fat to use, all milk, or half milk with half and half, or milk and full cream. They will all work. Baker's sugar is super smooth, especially when beaten into farm fresh egg yolks. The better the vanilla, the better the flavor. Vanilla paste from Madagascar rocks. For chocolate, Valronha Feves Guanja and Valrhona Dutch Process Cocoa will beat any chocolate dessert you have ever tasted. I promise you will never go back to the grocery store "gourmet" ice creams which are loaded up with cheap ingredients, fillers etc. Homemade is so superior. Go for it and have fun. To store in freezer, I use the paper One - Pint Frozen Dessert Containers with Lids. Fold up some wax paper and put it on top of the ice cream to prevent crystalizing. Put the whole container in a plastic bag with a tie, so that when you open and close the freezer, it stays super cold and doesn't crystalize on the outside. For the truly obsessed cooks, here's my version of Vanilla Gelato: 325g whole milk - 325g half and half - 50g really thick Icelandic yogurt - 145g bakers sugar - 2 tsp. madagascar vanilla paste - 5 egg yolks - separate the egg yolks, put in bowl, gently whisk in baker's sugar, don't over mix; mix the milk, half and half, yogurt and vanilla together and heat up to about 150 degrees in a good double boiler, stir so it doesn't stick but not too much or it will take forever to warm up; take off heat; slowly add in about a half cup at a time while stirring the eggs, not too much too fast or your will ruin the eggs, then put the mixture back in the double boiler and bring to 165 degrees - not higher - take off the heat immediately, put into a bowl with a good lid - set bowl in some ice water to cool it down quickly. Then put the bowl in the fridge overnight. The Cuisinart mix bowl goes in the freezer overnight. Put it in a clean plastic bag to keep crystals out. Next day, set up the Cuisinart with freezer bowl, pour in chilled mix, let it spin. Mine takes twelve minutes to make. It's done when the gelato stops churning because it is soft frozen. Scoop it into the paper containers with wax paper on top. Makes two pints. Ok, real Italian gelato does not use cream, yogurt or eggs, this is just my version. The amount fills the Cuisinart up without overflowing. You can use only milk, or heavy cream instead of half and half. More or less sugar to your taste. If you don't use the egg yolks, you won't have to mess with the double boiler, but then it won't have the deep crazy good custard flavor. I have tried lots of fancy vanilla pastes. While I can't promote who makes the best, lets just say look for N & M. For the chocoholics - add 70g of melted 70% great chocolate into the warm milk mix plus 42g of Dutch Process cocoa powder. Just don't blame me if you get addicted. Ciao...

I got this to make Sorbets mainly because we LOVE Sorbet! When I bought this, I also bought a recipe book for Ice Cream and Frozen Yogurt and once for Sorbet <in Kindle form> so I'd have a few recipes to check out. I was so excited when this arrived yesterday, I went straight out and got Strawberries and Pineapples to make a sorbet. It took me more time to let the syrup mixture cool then anything else! But it was so easy to do. I just took a tiny little taste of the finished sorbet, and it is AWESOME!!! Here's the Pineapple Strawberry Sorbet recipe I used: Make sure your freezer bowl is frozen before starting <mine took 3 hours> 2 Cups Strawberries, core and cut into pieces <not too small...I quartered my berries> 2 Cups Pineapple Chunks <I got it in the can - only because we didn't have any fresh in stock at the store> 1 Cup of Sugar 1 Cup of Water 2 Tablespoons Honey 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice **Pour the Sugar & Water in pot and put on stove on medium <5-6> and let it start a quiet boil, once boiling turn down to 1-2. Once your sugar is completely melted in <no granules>, take off the stove and let it cool. <All together this should take 5-10 minutes>. After the pan is cooled off, I put mine in the refrigerator for an hour. You want the sugar water to be cool before putting in your machine. Take your cut Strawberries, Pineapple, Honey & Lemon Juice and put all in a blender and pulse until it's creamy. Add the sugar water syrup and blend a little more. Make sure it's creamy - unless you want a chunky sorbet! **Pour the entire mixture into the FROZEN Freezer Bowl. Place paddle inside making sure the "nub" on the bottom fits into the small hole it's meant to go in. Place the top on the machine and make sure it's in the lock position. Turn on your machine. I let mine spin for an hour. It was still very "liquid y" but it was starting to gel on the paddle. I took the freezer bowl <w/out the top and paddle of course> and put a plastic cover over it and put it in the freezer. I let it freeze from 9pm last night until 2pm this afternoon, without disturbing it. It was solid when I took it out of the freezer, but also soft. The top looked like glass! I took a tea spoon and grabbed a little bit to taste and it really is delicious! I've never used an ice cream/yogurt/sorbet maker before and have never seen anyone else use one, so this is very new to me. It appears to be very easy to do, and you can make some really yummy deserts! Grab a cookbook or look online for recipes...there's thousands of them out there I'm sure. Experiment and make your own recipes! In my opinion, this is an AMAZING Ice Cream/Yogurt/Sorbet maker, even with only making Sorbet first! I will definitely be making other goodies as time permits! I wouldn't hesitate to buy this again if mine were to break or just get old. The price is great and it's easy to use. What more could you ask for?!

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We had to replace our 30 year old machine which needed bags of ice and salt and we weren't sure we'd find a replacement that we loved as much as our original one. This one works great! So far we've made coffee ice cream and cherry vanilla ice cream and raspberry sorbet and they all came out perfectly. Of course, a lot of the taste and texture has to do with the recipe you're using, and we only make ice cream with a good egg yolk based custard, to make it really creamy, but we'd heard that the one downside of some machines is that the paddle doesn't always churn all of the contents. This one absolutely does, and we love the open top so that we can add things like nuts and cherries near the end of the cycle as it's churning. It's also a good size so doesn't take a lot of room on the shelf.

Had it for a few months , tried a few recipe's. Need to get more creative but the machine works great. Ah, harken back to the days of the hand crank ,ice and salt!! Only advice i would give, make sure the tub is 'frozen" If making 2 batches ,you should make one, freeze overnight ,then make the other. The only time we have had problems with soft ice cream is when we rushed between batches. Also let it churn right to the top-don't rush the process.