Ice Cream Toppings - Sprinkle machine

[iscream4icecream]

I have been trying to locate a piece of equipment that I remember from my youth if they are still made. This machine had a drum like a small clothes dryer (w/o a door) and you placed sprinkles inside the drum.
The drum was tilted back just slightly and you would hold the top of a ice cream cone just inside the opening where the sprinkles would be carried up to the top of the drum from its rotation and then drop onto the ice cream.

Any sprinkles that did not stick to the cone would fall to the bottom of the drum where they would then be caught until they rotated back to the top. If you could put me in touch with a manufacture of such a machine it would be greatly appreciated.

[ICP]

I've actually received this question two other times in the past, so I thought it might be best to post your answer here in the articles section of our site.

The device you are referring to is no longer made. Unfortunately. It seems like there is still quite a market for it, so maybe an equipment maker could design a new one.

So what are people using?

I called my friend Reuven at Fun Food Depot and he told me that the best tool for distributing sprinkles is actually a sieve. These are usually used to distribute confectionary sugar in bakeries. You can find them at Publix here in the South, or most baking/kitchen supply stores.

You will need to adapt the unit though. The holes are a little bit small for use with sprinkles so you will need to make the holes larger by poking them with a nail. With this minor modification you have just made an ideal ice cream sprinkle dispenser!

I hope this helps.

Keep those questions coming.

[bobwillier]

I believe that the machine can still be bought, and am searching for the vendor. We sold these machines to Dairy Queens. It may be QA products but not sure. If we find out where to buy, we will let everyone know....

[Sandy]

I have one of the sprinkle machines. It is called a cone coater and I purchased it from International Restaurant Distributors. 1-800-786-6691
also www.irdEquipment.com (http://copypaseurlintobrowsser.com) My customers love it! I put it in plain view and when it is busy we just let it run. They get sprinkles on their ice cream just to watch it run. This is a great Company that also has other cool items and equipment I use in my dairy bar.

Sandy

[chillout]

I was interested in a sprinkle machine, also, but we chocolate and rainbow sprinkles and I'm not sure I want to buy two sprinkle machines. I forget what the name brand was, but I saw a few on ebay last year.

[chillout]

I've actually received this question two other times in the past, so I thought it might be best to post your answer here in the articles section of our site.

The device you are referring to is no longer made. Unfortunately. It seems like there is still quite a market for it, so maybe an equipment maker could design a new one.

So what are people using?

I called my friend Reuven at Fun Food Depot and he told me that the best tool for distributing sprinkles is actually a sieve. These are usually used to distribute confectionary sugar in bakeries. You can find them at Publix here in the South, or most baking/kitchen supply stores.

You will need to adapt the unit though. The holes are a little bit small for use with sprinkles so you will need to make the holes larger by poking them with a nail. With this minor modification you have just made an ideal ice cream sprinkle dispenser!

I hope this helps.

Keep those questions coming.


This sounds like an awesome idea. Right now we roll our cones in sprinkles that we keep in large Rubbermaid containers. Do you mean the kind of sugar shaker that had the squeeze handle?

TIA, Karen

[millcitydairy]

I can say that the "Sprinkle Machine" is one piece of equipment that I love. I own 3- one for rainbow, one for chocolate and one a seasonal mix like red, white and blue for 4th of July. I can't imagine serving ice cream with out it! Maybe because of the high volume that our shop has but I could NEVER imagine a sieve being productive to apply sprinkles. There are two ways that I see people applying sprinkles- with the machine or having a shallow long container and flopping the ice cream cone on to its side and rolling it. In my opinion you need to have a cone coater to be productive.

[dilltcby]

I have three of these for sale if anybody is interested. They were bought for $350 each, but are being sold for $100 each + shipping. Just send a pm if you want more details.

[make money]

The objective of our machine is to automate the process of creating an ice cream sundae. The user will put a bowl of ice cream on a large turntable and will input to the computer which toppings and the amount of each topping he or she wants. The turntable will then position the bowl under stations where the toppings will be applied and finally return a delicious custom-made sundae to the user.

The user will have four toppings to select from: sprinkles, candy M&M's, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream. The Handy Board will first ask the user how many scoops of sprinkles they want. After the user presses the quantity button up to three times to specify the number of scoops of sprinkles, they will press a button to advance to the next option. The computer will then ask the user how many scoops of M&M's they want, followed by quantities of chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

After inputting the requests, the turntable will rotate the bowl under the dry topping chute where sprinkles and M&Ms will be dispensed by a mechanism similar to a gumball machine. After the dry toppings are dropped on the ice cream, the turntable will rotate the bowl under the chocolate sauce pump where a solenoid will be used to squirt the desired amount of sauce from the pump on the ice cream. Next, the turntable will rotate the bowl under the whipped cream canister where a solenoid will press the nozzle on the container for the desired number of puffs of whipped cream. Finally, the turntable will return the bowl to the user and ask for the next order.

This machine could be implemented with a soft-serve ice cream machine and a bowl dispenser to produce made-to-order ice cream sundaes from a vending machine. Using similar technology to dispense bowls such as those used to release individual cups in coffee vending machines, two extra stations could be added to our turntable, allowing one station for the bowl dispensing, and another to fill the bowl with ice cream. We think that this machine could also be very helpful in an ice cream shop. Even though we do not plan on implementing it in this way for our project, it could be programmed to make multiple sundaes at once, with all stations operating at the same time. This way, orders could be submitted from the register and transmitted directly to the machine. Thus, it would continue manufacturing sundaes continuously until all orders were filled.:)

[extrafudge]

I have three of these for sale if anybody is interested. They were bought for $350 each, but are being sold for $100 each + shipping. Just send a pm if you want more details.

I am interested in the machines. can you email me a picture? My email is extrafudge@carolina.rr.com. Thank you.

[ICP]

You might also check our ice cream profits classifieds section - there might be some used equipment for you there: http://www.icecreamprofits.com/classifieds/index.php (http://www.icecreamprofits.com/classifieds)