A month (or more) of sundaes.

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* Sure, a freezer full of ice cream is enough to satisfy most of your dessert cravings, but every once in a while you may have a yen for the soft-serve variety. You can either pack up and head for the nearest Dairy Queen or other purveyor of this creamy blend or, better still, reach for the Arctic Twister Ice Cream Mixer from Applica Consumer Products, Inc., Miami Lakes, Fla., a division of Black & Decker Corporation, and make your own.

The operation is simplicity itself: Open the lid; drop in a few scoops of hard ice cream; add other ingredients if they tickle your fancy (candy, cookie pieces, nuts, berries, fruit slices, even dry cereal); turn on the machine; and start pumping the front handle up and down. Within moments, silky smooth soft ice cream comes oozing down the chute to the dispenser, where, thanks to the twister nozzle at the very end of the...