Awesome Ice Cream

This old-fashioned stainless steel ice cream scoop carves out perfect cylinders instead of spheres, resulting in larger, taller scoops, and a unique presentation for frozen desserts. Just press into ice cream, and pull the trigger above your cone or bowl.

Matty Benedetto is known for making things we don’t need but seem like plausible products. After completing hundreds of projects on his Unnecessary Inventions channel, he revisited three of his earlier builds to apply new skills he’s gained. He started with a motorized ice cream cone spinner, and things get sillier from there.

Someone’s ice cream dreams will come true with with a customized Drumstick inspired vehicle. Fancy a car with a waffle cone steering wheel and an ice box in the glove box? Or motorcycle with a cone-shaped sidecar? It’s all up to the winner of The Great Drumstick Summer Road Trip contest who will get $25K to pimp their ride. Details here.

We can’t imagine summer without chiming ice cream trucks rolling up our street. Jiffy Lube noticed that rising operating costs threaten the century-old industry, so they’re offering free truck maintenance to ice cream truck drivers nationwide and are hosting free Good Humor ice cream socials at Jiffy Lube locations all summer. Pretty chill move.

Maker Peter Brown once made a handle for an ice cream scoop out of moldable thermoplastic, but it didn’t last. So he decided to retrofit his brass scoop with something more appropriate. He took a big batch of colorful sprinkles, submerged them in resin, then turned the block on a lathe to form the handle.

After missing the neighborhood ice cream truck, Buttered Side Down decides the next best thing is to make his own frozen dessert. With complete disregard for the process, he ends up concocting something he never expected. But can he resist the temptation to take a bite out of his cool new creation?

Making waffle cones at home is pretty darned easy. But when you need to churn out millions of these tasty treats every month, you need some serious industrial equipment. In this classic video from How It’s Made, they show us just how factories mass-produce waffle, sugar, and cake cones.

Between its two Vermont factories, Ben & Jerry’s cranks out a million pints of ice cream each day. Insider Business takes us behind the scenes to see how they make their delicious ice cream, along with a brief history of the socially-conscious company. For more Ben & Jerry’s fun, check out Rhett & Link’s 52-flavor taste test.

This battery-powered appliance lets you make ice cream whenever and wherever you feel like it. It can turn dairy products into ice cream in 15 to 20 minutes. Just chill its insulated freezer bowl before you hit the road, add ingredients, and switch it on. It’ll keep the ice cream you make chilled for up to five hours.

Ninja’s countertop appliance makes ice cream, sorbets, milkshakes, and other frozen treats with the push of a button. Fill the container with yummy ingredients, freeze for 24 hours, then let the CREAMi’s paddle work its magic to create creamy desserts. Includes three pint containers and lids for making multiple flavors.

For those of us mourning the loss of the Choco Taco, the Choco Tacotini cocktail will aid the healing process. Cody Goldstein of Brooklyn-based hospitality group Muddling Memories has created a dreamy, sweet ‘n’ salty dessert cocktail featuring Tequila Cazadores, amaro, cold brew, cream, peanuts, and fudge-shell chocolate.

Make the perfect ice cream sandwich every time with this unique kitchen tool from Dreamfarm. It has a round cutting blade that you can dip into ice cream and a mechanism that pushes the frozen puck smoothly onto your cookie for a quick and easy dessert treat.

The Frolic is like a Keurig, but for ice cream. Simply pop open one of their organic ice cream pods, add any mix-ins, and push Start. It produces smooth, ready-to-eat ice cream in about 2 minutes without pre-mixing or pre-freezing. Choose from vanilla or chocolate bases in classic, lite, or vegan (dairy-free) versions.

YouTuber popaspartacus offers up a tour of the factory line at Aticream Company, in Transylvania, Romania. If you’re like us, you’ll work up an appetite as a mechanical ballet of vanilla bars skinny dip into a chocolate bath, and a carousel of sundae cups gets filled with festive flavors.

There’s nothing worse than tripping and spilling your ice cream cone on the floor. Unless that is, your ice cream cone is an inedible piece of decor. JJ Ice Cream Shop sells these sculptures that look just like real ice cream cones that have fallen. They’re made from resin and come in a variety of colors and scoop styles.

Don’t you hate it when you go to get some ice cream from the freezer, and it turns out one of your housemates has already gobbled it all down? Häagen-Dazs Australia sympathizes, so they came up with this fake bag of frozen peas for you to hide your dessert treats inside of.

In the mood for some ice cream cake? Check out this footage that Michael Wilson-Roberts captured inside UK ice cream maker Wall’s factory back in 2002, as machines churn out delicately rippled layers of ice cream and chocolate for those fancy looking Viennetta frozen desserts.

There’s more than one way to cool off on a hot summer day. Celebrate two of our favorites the next time you hit the pool or the beach with these whimsical swim trunks which look like the menu from an ice cream truck. Bonus points for the designer’s name: Trick Moranis.

While we prefer our ice cream not include powdered milk or plant-based stabilizers, it’s still satisfying to watch the production process involved in making these tasty vanilla and chocolate ice cream novelties. Stick around for some coney goodness from How It’s Made.

The Cone Guys make ice cream more of a snack with their unique gourmet ice cream cones. They come in four variants – there’s the original Pretzel Cone, the Chocolate Chip Cone, the M&M Cone and the Chocolate Cookie Cone.

Ice cream sammies are pretty yummy all on their own, but Epicurious shows us how to make them just that much better by stacking them together into a decadent mint chocolate layer cake with them. We suppose you could substitute cherry, orange, or almond extract.

Macro Room’s time-lapse footage of ice cream bars and popsicles melting into the ground is simultaneously hypnotic and depressing, bringing on flashbacks to that time we dropped a bomb pop on the ground at age five and cried for an hour.

Ice cream lovers rejoice. You can now enjoy perfectly round scoops of ice cream without the struggle. SVANKi (“swanky”) is an ice cream scoop with an electrically heated scooper. It stays at the perfect temperature – 140ºF-150ºF – for up to 30 minutes per charge.