A Cuisinart ice cream maker makes much more than just ice cream. Cuisinart has built a reputation for offering professional grade kitchen appliances for the home. These products help the home cook prepare a wide variety of fine foods, just like all the favorite restaurants do. A variety of colors and styles helps people keep the design of the kitchen consistent, matching chrome, wood, all-white and other modern or retro looks.

There are tons of great features to consider when shopping for a Cuisinart ice cream maker. Most easily double as a frozen yogurt maker. Frozen yogurt is a healthy alternative to ice cream, and either frozen yogurt or ice cream can be made in less than half an hour with these models. Some can be ready in as few as 20 minutes. Simply add the ingredients for frozen yogurt, ice cream or sorbet, and let the machine do the rest.

One other great feature of these ice cream and sorbet makers is double-insulation. With double-insulation, it isn't necessary to add ice to the maker, and making the sorbet or ice cream is much speedier. These machines are made to disassemble easily for thorough and fast clean up. Some are designed to serve directly into an ice cream cone or a sorbet dish.

These appliances can also serve as frozen drink makers. Frozen drinks like smoothies make healthy snacks, working in a recommended daily allowance of fruits into the diet easily and deliciously. Smoothies make great breakfast drinks, healthy snacks for kids and refreshing drinks to serve at parties and get-togethers.

A Cuisinart ice cream maker can also be purchased to match other Cuisinart appliances in the kitchen. Chrome, white and wooden models match blenders, food processors, toasters, coffee makers and other Cuisinart home appliances. Some ice cream makers store and dispense toppings in addition to ice cream, such as sprinkles, nuts and chocolate chips.

To make wonderful ice creams at home, shop for a Cuisinart ice cream maker at Macy's.