Nostalgia Electric Ice Cream Maker with 2 qt Double Insulated Gel Canister and Stainless Steel Base, Aqua

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The Nostalgia Electric Ice Cream Maker is a solid, fun, budget-friendly way to make homemade ice cream, especially for occasional use, gatherings, or dessert nights. It gives you good results with relatively little effort — and the large capacity makes it ideal for families and entertaining. If you want a no-fuss, all-the-time machine and care deeply about smoothness and convenience, you might eventually outgrow it — but for its price point, it's a great “starter” or casual-use cream maker. Makes really smooth ice cream. Very easy to use with minimal cleaning effort.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Really happy with this ice cream maker. I love the color and that the maker itself isn't too heavy. The manual comes with quite a few recipes but we've just been experimenting with different fruits in a vanilla base. It took about 20 minutes to get a soft, milkshake like ice cream. I did freeze it overnight and the ice cream is still delicious just more crumbly now. Setting it up was easy. Just pop the canister in the freezer for 24 hours and add your ingredients. My kids loved helping me with this too so it's a fun family activity although I did have to hear "is it done yet?" about a dozen times.