Is there a way to make ice cream at home like the soft serve that you buy at the store?

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longview12

I want to try and make ice cream at home, but I don't like hard ice cream. I like the creamy smooth kind that I can buy at some ice cream shops. I am not sure that can be made at home. I think those shops whip air into it. Can that be done at home?

Answer
Cuisinart makes a specific soft-serve ice cream maker. Most ice cream recipes for home use suggest that the ice cream be allowed to "ripen" in the freezer for a couple of hours after the ice cream is done churning. If you skip this step and just eat it when it is done churning, it has a consistency like that of soft-serve.

Is there a way to make ice cream at home like the soft serve that you buy at the store?

Does This Appliance Exist: Single Serve Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker?

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Q. I am looking for an appliance that will convert one serving of ready made ice cream to soft serve. So far everything I looked at is an ice cream maker (from scratch) that makes tons of servings. Is there anything that I can just put in one or two servings and have it come out to the smooth, twisty, soft-serve consistency? I just want to be able to easily have this at home instead of having to run to an ice cream place like DQ or wherever.

Answer
Toy,s are Us
look in the kids toy section

How to make hardening candy ice cream coating?

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Andrew

When I was a kid(so mid 90's), I used to love to go to dairy queen and get a vanilla cone with the strawberry or chocolate coating. They would put the soft serve in the cone and then dip it in a tub of liquid coating and after a few seconds the liquid would harden into a shell. How do you make this at home. What do they even call it? I have no idea how to start looking.

Thanks

Answer
Homemade Magic Shell Ice Cream Topping Recipe

makes 6-8 servings

Ingredients

4 oz chocolate
3 TBS butter (salted) (or coconut oil and a tiny pinch of salt)

Instructions

Place chocolate in a microwaveable bowl and microwave for one minute. Add butter and microwave another minute. Stir and continue to microwave in 20 second intervals, stirring between until smooth.

If it gets very hot, let sit on the counter for 3-5 minutes to cool slightly. Once it’s liquid but not hot, drizzle generously over ice cream.

How is it possible a local ice cream shop offers 42 soft serve flavors?

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Josh T

They only have 2-3 soft serve machines
yet you can get 42 flavors?

What machine does this?

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If they only have 2-3 soft serve machines to make it at all, then they just make 2-3 flavors at a time. Just because you see 2-3 machines in the front though doesn't mean that they don't have a bunch in the back. I know that it only takes about 20-40 minutes to make a batch of soft serve at home, since I have a little machine so I don't think it would be that hard if you had commercial quality machines.