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Hamilton Beach Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Maker

August 7, 2013
207 Comments

Hamilton Beach Ice CreamOh the sweet sweet taste of summer!

My husband is the ice cream fanatic in our household for sure, so it’s always his idea to walk to the local ice cream shack on summer nights.

So, when given the opportunity to try out a Hamilton Beach Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Maker, I knew it was something I couldn’t pass up!

The product itself doesn’t really seem like there’s much to it (who knew ice cream making was so easy!)  It’s a plastic outer container, with an insulated, removable, inside bucket and a wand for stirring.  Combining those elements with yummy ingredients results in ice cream magic.  Who knew?

At a retail price of $49.99, the Hamilton Beach Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt maker is relatively the same price as many household appliances.  I don’t think the price is astounding when you consider that a trip to an ice cream franchise shop for a family of 5 is on average $22 (according to my husband, the ice cream purchaser!)

The first step when preparing anything in this appliance is to freeze the ice cream bowl – we put ours in the freezer for 24 hours (it needs to go in the freezer between 8-24 hours depending on the temperature) – and then prepare the mixture which also needs to be chilled.  So, it’s not a middle-of-the-afternoon-idea type of appliance, ice cream making needs to be planned!

Hamilton Beach Ice Cream 1

We used a recipe that came with the product and made Easy Vanilla Ice Cream the other night, except we opted to add Orange-Vanilla Syrup (found in the ice cream toppings aisle at the grocery store, beside the fudge and caramel!)  The kids love being able to help out, even if it’s just pouring the mixture in and watching it mix and informing us when “it looks ready, mom!”  Churn time is 20-40 minutes depending on desired consistency.

Other items that can be made with this product include of course any ice cream flavor that you can create (chocolate and vanilla are easy!), strawberry sorbet and even cappuccino gelato (these are all recipes found inside the instruction booklet).

I think this will be a fun item for summer fun (and perhaps some pumpkin gelato this fall?) and it’s small enough that it won’t take up much space in my storage room when not in use.  It does take some planning, but so does baking and creating other frozen treats.  If you have room in your freezer to keep the freezer bowl in there that would make the process a little more impromptu.

 

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  • This looks like a fun kitchen appliance to have and would love to make homemade frozen treats for my family!

  • I’d like to win because this would help fatten our wallets by avoiding going to DQ all the time lol.

  • My grandkids would love this. “Let’s go to Nana’s and make ice cream!”.

  • If I win, I’ll be playing “ice cream truck” music whenever I use it! 🙂

  • i had one then gave it away not realizing how cool it was- (before ever trying it) and now i have remorse!

  • Would love to win the ice cream and yogurt maker………fun thing to do with my grandkids!

  • We love ice cream in our family and this would be a great family activity too! Thanks for the giveaway.

  • I’d like to win because…well, it’s ice cream. This could be REALLY bad for my hips though.

  • love to win because ice cream or yogurt is so good and what fun that we can make it with the kiddies

  • We love ice cream and have never owned a maker of our own. This would be fun and yummy.

  • Ice cream is my favorite food. Would love to have this so I can make my own!

  • I would love to make myself and my family home made frozen yogurt! What a treat that would be!

  • We love ice crewm and since DQ is pricey, being able to make our own would be amazing!!!

  • Simply – I loooovvvveeee ice cream. All year round. And to be able to make it myself….fantastic!

  • I would like to win, because I just purchased an ice cream maker at a yard sale this year only to discover that it was missing some of the necessary pieces needed to make the ice cream. My kids were SO disappointed. None of us can eat dairy, so homemade non-dairy ice cream is our only alternative…. and no ice cream maker means no alternatives :/

  • My current ice cream maker is falling apart and I could really use a new one! I love making natural chocolate mint ice cream with herbs from my garden.

  • I would love to win because I used to make ice cream with a ice cream maker when I was younger, would be fun to do it with my family again! Thanks for the chance.

  • fun way to get the kids involved in making ice cream.. my hubby is an ice cream fanatic too it never last long enough for me to have a second bowl so this would be perfect and I would maybe get that other bowl before it is gone. 🙂

  • The gelato place in my neighbourhood charges $6.25 for a regular cone. I need to make my own treats or go into bankruptcy.

  • I would love this because I cannot eat dairy so this would be a great way to make my own dairy-free treats because they cost so much to buy!

  • My oldest teen is an Ice Cream freak, we’ve had 2 ice cream makers already! He’s blown through them, lol

  • We love, love, love ice cream, and with this nifty ice cream and frozen yogurt maker, the possibilities for our own homemade creations would be endless!

  • I would love to win this because my family are big fans of ice cream and it would be awesome to be able to make our very own. This looks like an awesome machine!

  • I would love to win because my family goes through a lot of ice cream! The Hamilton Beach Ice Cream maker can not only help us save money, but also know what is in our ice cream. Thanks for the opportunity to win!

  • I’d like to win because I absolutely just LOVE ice cream and frozen yogurt, my one treat that I treat myself to when I’m out and about. And my birthday is next weekend so yeah….I have to win 😉

  • I’d love to win because a family member is allergic to soy (xanthan gum), and it’s in so many commercial ice creams out there!

  • I had fun learning to make Ice Cream in Home Economics class using a old fashioned hand cranked machine. It would be even more fun making it in this new machine.

  • I’d love to win because my entire family loves icecream plus it would be really fun to be able to make icecream at home.

  • Ice cream and frozen yogurt… do I really need a reason? I’d like to win because I like the idea of homemade frozen treats, I know what’s in there because I made it 🙂

  • i would love to be able to make ice cream with my son! i know he would have a blast!

  • It’s the summer; it’s ice cream and frozen yogurt! What more needs to be said?

  • There’s nothing better than to end the day with ice cream. It doesn’t matter whether, it’s summer or winter, I’ll always scream for ice cream.

  • Love frozen yogurt and there is only two stores that have it in my city. One of them is far away

  • I would like to win because im an ice cream addict… oh the flavor possibilities!!

  • I miss FROYO and the good old TCBY days in Ontario. Wow – that was good stuff. Making frozen yogurt would be a treat, (doused in M&Ms)

  • It would be fun to make your own ice cream (or gelato, yogurt and sorbet) and to be creative at-home with different flavour combos and toppings. And it certainly would be less expensive than trips to ice cream shops.

  • Because I LOVE ice cream, and I spend way too much money on it. This would be cheaper AND healthier!

  • This would be a fantastic addition to my household. I look forward to seeing it on my counter. 🙂

  • I am such an ice-cream addict! I would love to own so I can control what goes into my creamy treats and control the C word…calories!

  • id like to win so my son will have something new to create we cut bannas up and frezze them and blen it and he loves it to make it correctly im sure id be number one in mom ville

  • As of right now our only ice cream maker is a ball that you roll around that is meant as a novelty or is good when camping. It’s a lot of work for homemade ice cream and my kids get bored of it after two minutes so I have to lug it around for the remaining 45 minutes before we have ice cream–there has to be a better way!

  • I would love to be able to make ice cream with natural (as possible) ingredients! I know my girls would love creating their own flavours too!

  • There is nothing better than having homemade yogurt. I would love to be able to make it on a regular basis.

  • I’d love to win because my family loves ice cream and I think homemade would be amazing. The kids would love it!

  • I would love to win this as a fun way to spoil my family and enjoy homemade frozen treats ANYTIME!

  • I love ice cream and it would be fun to try to create my own flavour combinations!

  • I would like to win because I always wanted to make my own ice cream and because both my husband and I love ice cream

  • I would love to win this because it is much healthier for you as you know what you are putting in to it. We love frozen yogurt with fruit and would love to make our own combinations.

  • I think this product would be lots of fun for me and the kids to make ice-cream and yogurt together and that’s why I would like to win!

  • I would love to win this because my family loves ice cream and it would be fun to create different kinds
    thanks

  • I have a granddaughter who absolutely loves ice-cream….with this we could make our own home-made ice-cream together and discove new flavors together too.

  • We’re big ice cream lovers in this family, so I would love to win and make homemade ice cream for my hubby and kids. I also love that I would be able to control the amount of sugar in our favourite treat!

  • I would like to win because we are a family of ice cream lovers. We usually have ice cream every evening and it would be fun to experiment and make our own flavours.

  • I want to win because we all love soft ice cream! To make our own with our fav ingredient – caramel would be divine!

  • Everyone here loves frozen yogourt. So having something that can make it would be fantastic.

  • I’d like to win because my family enjoys ice cream and if it’s easy to make, all the better!

  • I would love this! I have an ice cram maker a few years back and it made the most amazing ice cream! It broke, and I never bbought a new one. I would love showing my daughter how to make it too,…

  • I’ve wanted an ice cream maker for so long! I want to make home-made yummy ice cream for my family.

  • I have been eyeing this machine for several months now! I already make my own home-made popsicles and would love to start making my own ice cream! I would be thrilled if I won!!!!

  • There are many ice cream brands I can’t buy due to allergies in the family so I would love to be able to make my own ice cream at home that everyone in the family can enjoy!

  • my kids are crazy for ice cream, and my daughter always wants to make her own concoctions! this would be perfect!

  • I’d like to win beacuse i love ice cream not only is it breaking the bank but its unhealthy for me being pre diabetic. I’m sure with this i could find low cost ways and more healthy to eat what i enjoy, i would have so much fun experimenting

  • I’d like to win because i love ice cream not only is it breaking the bank but its unhealthy for me being pre diabetic. I’m sure with this i could find low cost ways and more healthy to eat what i enjoy, i would have so much fun experimenting

  • I’d like to win because i love ice cream not only is it breaking the bank but its unhealthy for me being pre diabetic. I’m sure with this i could find low cost ways and more healthy to eat what i enjoy, i would have so much fun experimenting

  • My daughter loves making her own, it would be fun to have one so we could anytime…just a fun family activity in the summer to do

  • I’ve recently gone gluten free. Since I can’t have cake I eat a lot more ice cream lol!

  • I love ice cream and frozen yogurt and wish that I could have it all the time, except the malls sell these items at such an expensive price. Something about buying them at the grocery store just doesn’t taste the same either. I’d love to be able to make my own.

  • I would love to win because I loooove ice cream and I also love homemade/natural foods. This would be perfect! THanks for the great giveaway 🙂

  • Would love to have one to experience home made ice cream with my four kids and husband.

  • I love frozen yogurt and would love to make some for my family, experiment with different flavors.

  • I want to win because I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream….my family loves ice-cream!

  • I just want it…enough said lol 🙂 I would loooove to win an ice cream/frozen yogurt maker!!!!

  • I would love to win to be able to make ice cream with the best possible ingredients. And no additives. And think of the flavours I would be able to create. Thanks for the giveaway. ps. Vanilla would be my first ice cream made, with vanilla paste or bean.

  • I would love to try making Frozen Yogurt. Which does not work well, without a maker!

  • Ice cream’s one of the few processed items I buy… would be great to make this at home as well! Here’s to proving that living healthily can sometimes equal living yummily too!

  • My children (and I) would love to win this. We eat a lot of ice cream at home. It would be fun to make our own!

  • my kids would love this! They LOVE ice cream and would love to be able to make it themselves

  • Hamilton Beach makes such great products. Would love to win this ice cream freezer. Thanks for the opportunity.

  • My family is an ice-cream loving, frozen treat loving entity! I could save tons of money making my own and I would know exactly what is going into it!

  • I would like to win because I love to have frozen treats with my family and would like to control what goes in them!

  • I would love to win, so that I could spend time with my oldest boy who has replaced his mom for video games … It would be a way to get us to spend even a bit of time together. I would make him make it , but we could shop for what we would want in it 🙂 Thank you for the Giveaway .

  • I’d love to win this because we love ice cream and would prefer to make our own at home – we’ve just been talking about buying an ice cream maker.

  • I’d love to win because we love ice cream, but we don’t like all the extra sugar and unhealthy stuff that goes into commercial ones.

  • My son has lost weight and you would not believe how much ice cream we have been pushing on him! Football is NOT a sport for a too skinny young man!
    Also, my daughter does day care for our grandson and two others, plus she has her own little toddling ice cream maniac who lives here. I’d love to get FRESH ingredients to make our own and KNOW it is not full of ingredients that are not good for them!

    Thanks much!

  • Would love to make ice cream with my girls! I think it would be a fun activity and because we can choose the ingredients that go in, we can make it as healthy/sinful as we want!

  • I’d love to win because I love being able to make stuff at home and my hubby thinks ice cream is a staple food item!

  • tomorrow would have been my step fathers bday. he loved ice cream. My sister is sitting at L&D and may just deliver tomorrow and has been craving ice cream her whole pregnancy. kinda felt like it was a sign to enter this one.

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