The Cuisinart soft serve ice cream machine is available for purchase at Amazon

There is so much to love about summer: sunny days by the pool, hot afternoons on the beach and warm evenings on the terrace. With so much heat heading our way, there’s only one delicious way to cool down: ice cream! And since everything homemade tastes better than store bought, we searched Amazon for a device that lets you enjoy creamy, dreamy frozen treats anytime, all summer long, and look what we found: the Cuisinart Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker , marked down to just $80, from $185 – that’s almost 60% off!

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This countertop wonder turns soft ice cream fully automatically in 20 minutes. It comes with a double insulated freezer bowl, spice dispensers and a cone holder.

$80 at Amazon

This is the sundae station you dreamed of as a kid. Not only does this little machine make ice cream in just 20 minutes, you can also make froyo, slushies and frozen cocktails.

The Cuisinart Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker is pretty easy to set up and operate – it’s made for the counter, after all! The ice cream bowl clicks into the machine, but you do need to freeze it overnight before you can start churning ice cream. It comes with a recipe book, but here’s one for us: With just whole milk, heavy cream, sugar, and the extract of the same name, you can make vanilla soft serve. Just turn the dial on the side and let it run for about 20 minutes. When it’s done, pull the handle down for a little swirl of frozen bliss. It makes about 1.5 liters of ice cream per batch.

Amazon shoppers love this device – more than 4,200 five-star fans have lapped it up.

“Where has this been all my life?” lyrically one of them. “This works like a charm! Soft serve in less than 30 minutes total and hard leftovers later. Everything rinses clean quickly. Recipes in the book are perfect as they are.”

“Just like Dairy Queen soft serve!” gushed another happy shopper. “So far I’ve only tried the vanilla with a few little twists of my own, and my family loved it. I’m so glad I invested in this nifty device!”

For best results, customers recommend mixing your ingredients and freezing them for 20 minutes before adding them to your frozen bowl and starting the ice cream maker.

And if you – or the grandkids – want to give your soft serve a little sparkle with sprinkles, chocolate chips or a hint of caramel, the machine comes with dispensers that you can store toppings in.

“This is used a lot!” shared a grateful grandparent. “My grandchildren have all sorts of recipes that they’ve developed — from ages 4 to 15, and they all have friends all the time, so it works out for them.”

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Have ice cream on demand (and we DO mean “ask”) all summer long!

$80 at Amazon

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The reviews quoted above reflect the most recent versions at the time of publication.

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