Cuisinart ICE-45 Soft-Serve Ice Cream Maker Review

The Cuisinart ICE-45 Soft-Serve Ice-Cream Maker serves a gourmet-quality soft ice cream in your own home. This machine can also make yogurt, sorbet and sherbets. There is no need for chemicals, salt or ice and this machine can produce your desired ice cream of frozen dessert in an instant by simply pouring in all the ingredients and turning its dial. It is build with a three condiment dispensers for choice of mix-ins like sprinkles, chocolate chips and mini M&Ms. Like an authentic soft-serve ice cream machine, the Cuisinart Ice-45 Ice-Cream Maker serves ice cream by simply pulling a handle to send the ice cream swirling into the cone or desired container. The ice cream maker is also built with a cone holder to hold a stack of cones.

The Cuisinart Ice-45 Mix-It-In Soft-Serve 1-1/2-Quart Ice-Cream Maker is designed to provide a soft yogurts, soft serve ice creams,  sherbets and sorbets. It is built with a three-condiment dispenser for sprinkles, nuts, chocolate chips, mini M&Ms or other favorite mix-ins.

Dwain M. Gleason made a great review about this product, stressing that some people, referring to those who gave negative reviews about the Cuisinart Ice-45 Ice-Cream Maker, are expecting something more than what the ice-cream maker offers. She firmly believes that the machine delivers what it promised. One-by-one, she enumerated what her impressions and thoughts are about the product. The ice-cream maker uses a freezer bowl. She suggested that the bowl must be in the deep freeze when not in use. The soft serve mix must be prepared in advance, at least an hour, and chilled it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes without freezing it. For a bigger serving, she suggested an additional freezer bowl and make sure to keep it frozen. The first serving may produce a soupy ice cream but don’t fret, let it dispense to a cup and add it back to the freezer bowl. Dwain also noted that unlike conventional ice cream freezer, Cuisinart uses a freezer bowl. The machine offers the convenience as it doesn’t require a mix of ice and rock salt, but it lacks the capability of the conventional freezer or the soft serve dispensers used in the restaurants. However, she enjoyed using the machine as it gives them a nice treat during a summer afternoon.

Note that this machine is not the same with DQ Blizzard as the Blizzard’s three-condiment dispensers are for toppings and are not designed for mixing into the soft serve ice cream.