Ice Cream Magic says it’s a quick and easy way to make ice cream at home by shaking it in a special cup that’s shaped like a cone. If it works it represents a fun and fast way to give your kids, or yourself, a healthy cool snack all summer long. So let’s see what the final verdict is.
Overview
Ice cream is a wonderful treat, but the kind you buy from the store often has artificial flavors and colors, industrial grade sugar and other additives that you don’t really want to put in your body. Making it with fresh cream and organic ingredients when possible makes it a healthier option, and you can take it to the next level by using fat-free and sugar-free items.
The Claim
The creators of Ice Cream Magic say that you’ll be able to make ice cream from home in just a few minutes. They say you can make all sorts of flavors, and use your own ingredients so you can control how much fat and how many calories you’re getting from each cone.
The Hype
These seem to be applying the same method as the Slushy Magic system does for slushies. The real magic lies in the infomercial, so it’s important to understand that your results will likely not look as perfect as they depict them in the promo ad. The results are going to vary depending on the ingredients you use, how well you follow the directions, and how vigorously you can shake the cup.
The Cost
The total cost is $27, and that gets you two cones, plus two spoons, and the recipe book. They have a party pack for $50 which comes with six cones, six spoons, and the recipe book. Breaking that down, if you go with the “Buy One Get One (just pay shipping)” offer, your per cone/spoon cost is $13.50, and if you go with the party pack it’s $8.33. Here’s the thing: the 30 day guarantee doesn’t cover shipping, so if you get the standard pack and don’t like the results you’ll be out $12 plus return costs. If you get the party pack, you’re out $10 plus return costs, which may be slightly higher since there’s more to return.
The Commitment
Even though they say that your ice cream is ready in just 3 minutes, that means you’ve got to shake it aggressively for 3 full minutes. This might not sound like a big deal, until you try it. They make it look fun, like you’re dancing a dance, but vigorously shaking anything for 3 minutes is likely to leave you exhausted.
Evaluation
The big reason to want to get Ice Cream Magic is that you’d have control of what goes in it. You could use organic cream, or reduced fat cream, sea salt for the salt, and real fruit if you’re trying to make a flavor like Strawberry. There has been a lot of speculation on how this could work, and whether or not it’s able to make ice cream that you’d actually want to eat.
We’ve taken the liberty of finding you a better deal. The Nostaligia Electrics Ice Cream Maker gets stellar reviews, requires no extreme effort on your part, is easy to clean, and is priced less than the standard pack of Ice Cream Magic. This allows you all of the same benefits, the ability to use your ingredients of your choice, but uses an electric motor to do the churning the old fashioned way.
Final Ice Cream Magic Review
Ice Cream Magic is getting a Try rating from us, as long as you go in with the understanding that this isn’t likely going to produce store-quality ice cream, and that better options exist for enjoying homemade ice cream. If you’d like to sidestep the whole process you can pick up the ice cream maker we talked about above, since it’s already been peer reviewed and has passed the real world test. The cuteness factor for Ice Cream Magic doesn’t do enough to get us to recommend it fully.
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Our Recommendation
This can be a fun project for the kids, and they may be less concerned with getting perfect-looking ice cream, and more concerned with the fun of making it on their own. Kids also have the energy to shake things up for 3 minutes. If you’d rather go the lazy route for the same money and have a higher likelihood of getting ice cream that looks and tastes like ice cream, we recommend getting this electric ice cream maker instead.
I done something similar to this in the past and I must say that I never did get the results I wanted from it. First off, it requires a lot of shaking and forcefully if I might add. It’s very cumbersome and is definitely not something you can make when you are in a hurry. From what others have mentioned, it looks like a waste of time and money that doesn’t deliver when it comes to results. Who want to forcefully shake a bag for several hours? Not me that’s for sure!
The Ice Cream Magic is a waste of time and money. No matter how long you shake it all you have is a milky substance. I have tried several alternative methods thinking I could get it to thicken up, but it never does. It’s a big mess that isn’t worth giving away much less selling. By the time you send it back you have wasted your money as you only get a percentage of the money returned with their ‘money back guarantee’. I would love to know how they exactly get ice cream made as it never worked for me and I tried and tried.
It dosent work it was just liquid! DON’T GET IT! Or slushy magic or squeezy freezy
This does not work, we tried 3 different recipes with different ice and salts. Nothing after 30 minutes except a deplete ice cube box.. I wouldnt buy it, my son gave up after a minute shaking it and it got passed around for all that time. At 30 minutes its like a melted milkshake consistency
NO. Just tried to use it. We have shaken for 15 minutes and NO ice cream…. so don’t buy it
I hope anyone who buys these lets us all know how often they used them in a one year stretch. I’m betting two or three times, then back to the store.
I’m sure the shaking part’s going to be exhausting, but I’ll have my husband take care of that anyways, so it’s not a problem 😛 I just like the fact that I can take control of the ingredients, instead of feeding my children another processed food. It’s enough that pretty much everything they eat are not much better than dog foods. Let’s face it, pretty much everything we grab at the grocery are terrible compared to the things people used to eat in the past. I don’t want to poison my children further with unhealthy ice cream.