Dole Soft Serve Mix 4.75 Pound, pineapple, 70.4 Ounce | Pineapple soft serve mix with sweet, tropical fruit flavor; just add water for smooth frozen treats or soft serve desserts

I used it with a 5-in-1 ice cream maker - the type with the freeze wand, also purchased Amazon. Worked out very well. I can churn/process individual servings so as not to indulge in too much at a time. I am sensitive to dairy so I was delighted to see this base that appears to have little or no dairy. For years I've been experimenting to find out how to make homemade ice cream without tons of milk or cream that still has a good texture. This is it! And it tastes great - sweet and tangy. It blended easily with a whisk. The bag is quite big so I'm experimenting with storing it in the freezer, though it would probably be fine if transferred to an airtight container and stored in a cabinet.

Delicious! Easy to make and just followed directions

This is so good. We make it in our Greenspan soft serve machine. I make a batch with 1 1/8 cups mix to 3 1/2 cups cold water. This makes 2 quarts of sole whip.

Mix 3 TBSP of mix with 6 oz real pineapple juice and two ounces of milk or half and half. Delicious.

Have the GreenPan soft serve machine. Since there are only two of us, didn't need a large batch of soft serve. Found an online recipe using only 1 cup of Dole mix and 3 cups of water. It was for the orange Dole mix (which I also have), so I used this recipe for the pineapple mix. Instead of the 3 cups of water, I used only 2 cups plus one cup of whole milk. Turned out great and tasty! Still too much soft serve mix for two people, so had to freeze the leftover portion. One thing that bothered me (and thus only 4 stars) is that the package received was labeled "Dole Pineapple FLAVORED Soft Serve Mix". A review of the ingredients on this package didn't list pineapple juice, while the Dole Pineapple Soft Serve Mix (that didn't say FLAVORED) shown on this Amazon listing did have it. I suppose I could add some of my own, but for the price I paid for this package it should have been included as an ingredient. And the Amazon listing should be updated to reflect what you are actually getting.

It would be nice if they added instruction to make smaller portions than mixing the whole bag at once. Had to do a little math to determine the mix ratio for a small home ice cream maker. Other than that, it tastes great and is a very good mix.

Better than expected. Easy to mix. Freezes well in my soft serve machine. Disneyland serves this. This is the same quality.

This plus a regular ice cream maker (I got the 1.5 qt Cuisinart ICE-21 just for this) produces perfect Dole whip, no need for a specialized soft serve machine. If you want to get fancy with a swirl, you could always pipe it out with a pastry bag or just a plastic bag with a corner cut off. I tried a recipe from youtube, with 1.33c powder mixed into 0.5qt (2c) water, then adding more water to total 1qt. This was a tiny bit too sweet IMO. Still good, but I liked the results from the included instructions, with 7/8c powder into 2.75c cold water. A few tips/notes: - When mixing the powder + water, I found reserving some of the water to add towards the end helped mix a tiny bit better, helping to get rid of little clumps. So add 7/8c powder into 2c water, whisk, then add 0.75c water, and whisk again. That's more akin to the official full bag instructions (add bag to 1 gallon cold water in a bucket, whisk, then add water up to 2 gallon line). - The longer you let it run in the ice cream machine, the firmer it gets. I found about 20-25 minutes to my liking - it's a tiny bit on the dense side, but by the time you scoop it out and serve it, it's just right. It felt a bit dense and slightly gummy when I went up to 30 minutes. Note that it does expand in volume too, but at the numbers I mentioned, it didn't overflow (though it does rise above the rim of the spinning bowl). - It starts off a darkish yellow, but as it mixes and aerates, it becomes a more pale yellow, like you get in Disney/Hawaii. The people complaining about it being too yellow or icy probably just didn't let it run long enough. If you want it "just like Disney/Hawaii", it's non-dairy there since they follow the instructions and just add water, so no need to add milk. However, if you want to tune it to your personal preferences, knock yourself out.