Awesome Ice Cream

Make restaurant-quality soft serve ice cream whenever the mood strikes with the Ninja Swirl by CREAMi. This countertop appliance offers settings for soft serve, fruit whip, ice cream, frozen yogurt, light ice cream, protein-packed treats, and more. It also makes classic scoopable ice cream, sorbet, gelato, and milkshakes.

Here’s a sweet treat for rum fans. Kraken Ship Wrecked is a limited-edition ice cream collab between Kraken Rum and Tipsy Scoop, with shipping through Goldbelly. Way better than rum raisin, it’s a very boozy blend of Kraken Black Spiced Rum and black cocoa ice cream with bits of amaro cherries and white chocolate. Price shown is for four pints.

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.

We’ve seen how factories make ice cream bars and cones. Now find out how they make those twisted frozen treats in this satisfying video posted by m.rahman5000. The main trick is a spinning extruder that squirts out the frozen dessert before another machine chops them up into logs. The one that slaps in the popsicle sticks seems a little drunk though.

The refrigeration used to make most ice cream has only been around since the early 20th century. But as TED-Ed points out, societies have been making frozen desserts for centuries. The earliest examples date back to the first century in locations as far and wide as Italy, China, and India, but ice cream as we know it didn’t emerge until the late 1600s.

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.