Dash My Mug Ice Cream Maker

Part of me does miss making ice cream, and then what does my wife surprise me with?

Dash My Mug Ice Cream Maker

It comes with a few basic recipes, but for my first try, I'm going with the no cook recipe. It's supposed to be skim milk, heavy cream, sugar, and a few drops of vanilla.... but because me, I've gone with heavy cream, 2% fairlife milk, dark brown sugar, and several drops of vanilla. Plus I'll be adding some crushed chocolate chip cookies (though the original plan was to use edible cookie dough, but I'm not sure my cookie dough is edible without cooking).

Firsts thought: I need to get me a smaller mixing bowl that has a spout (we just have a big one).

Ok, machine is on, and pouring in the mix!

Several minutes in and it does appear to be thickening up.

It doesnt seem to be very loud, especially compared to my Ice-20.

While we wait, this is $45 on Amazon, and that's for the bundle that comes with two cups. Looks like $30 for the one cup version. They also have a 1.6 cup and 2 quart ice cream makers.

Ok, almost at the 20 minute mark. Need to smash some cookies.

Gonna need to work on my crumb delivery systems.

Apparently 22+ minutes was not enough, though it took a few minutes to get it photographed and out of the container..

Geez, yeah, mine has liquified already... so with 7 minutes, it went from soupy soft server to cold milk.

smart thought: pre-chill the glasses next time

obvious thought: re-chill the mix before churning

All that said, it's a fun enough product, even though the "serves 2" seems ambitious at best. [I believe it's meant to be the older 1/2 cup serving size versus a more realistic 2/3 cup serving size {not that I don't prefer a 1 cup serving size}]

Let's see how things go next time.

On Second Scoop: It's next time! I was reading through the "dash my mug ice cream maker cookbook for beginners" and it definitely says that you should always chill after mixing your ingredients... and it definitely helped. Buying a smaller 2 cup mixing cup also made it easier to store and then pour in the ingredients.

Also, I may have gone a bit silly and replaced the sugar component with raspberry jelly, cocoa, and some Oreo crumbs. 

Honestly, it came out pretty good, though the cocoa acted as more of a stabilizer than expected. Something to keep in mind for next time, which is fine, because when you are experimenting at this small a scale, there's minimal harm is messing around.

If you are curious, the book is useful but maybe not as fancy schmancy as you might think. It's pretty basic despite the misleading tag on the cover that says "2500-day recipes" (it's more like 140 recipes approximately)

On Third Scoop: Sorry, but I had to retry the first recipe again but with chilling the mixture better and I can confirm that it's really helping. Probably obvious, but just incase, now you know how to use it better. It's still fairly soft, but technically you could always churn for 25 and then freeze for an hour or so to see how that pans out for you (in terms of texture). 

Moral of the story: So far, this little guy is fun

Parting thought: if you hear the motor start to struggle a little bit because you put in too many mix-ins be sure to turn the motor off before you break something because they don't give you any spare parts.