A stirring unit for a machine for batch freezing and dispensing ice cream food products such as gelato, soft ice cream, sorbets, chilled dessert creams, comprising: - a first base element configured to rotate about a first axis of rotation and having a plurality of first mixing vanes, which define, in rotation, a substantially cylindrical operating surface, and a plurality of scraping appendages, which are connectable to the mixing vanes; - a first actuator, connected to the first base element to set it in rotation about the first axis of rotation, - a processing container forming a processing chamber in which a base product is processed, the stirring unit being characterized in that it further comprises: - a second base element, configured to rotate about a second axis of rotation and having at least a second mixing vane (11, 14); the first base element and the second base element being mounted inside the processing container; - a second actuator, connected to the second base element to set it in rotation about the second axis of rotation, the first base element and the second base element being configured to rotate about the first axis of rotation and the second axis of rotation, respectively, independently of each other and the first actuator and the second actuator being configured to be activated independently of each other, wherein the first actuator comprises an electric motor and wherein the second actuator comprises a further electric motor and the stirring unit also comprises a driver unit configured to drive the electric motor of the first actuator and the electric motor of the second actuator in such a way as to make the first base element and the second base element rotate independently of each other and wherein the second base element comprises a cylindrical element having at least one base face, the at least one second mixing vane (11, 14) being disposed to protrude from the at least one base face. - a first base element configured to rotate about a first axis of rotation and having a plurality of first mixing vanes, which define, in rotation, a substantially cylindrical operating surface, and a plurality of scraping appendages, which are connectable to the mixing vanes; - a first actuator, connected to the first base element to set it in rotation about the first axis of rotation, - a processing container forming a processing chamber in which a base product is processed, - a second base element, configured to rotate about a second axis of rotation and having at least a second mixing vane (11, 14); the first base element and the second base element being mounted inside the processing container; - a second actuator, connected to the second base element to set it in rotation about the second axis of rotation, the first base element and the second base element being configured to rotate about the first axis of rotation and the second axis of rotation, respectively, independently of each other and the first actuator and the second actuator being configured to be activated independently of each other, wherein the first actuator comprises an electric motor and wherein the second actuator comprises a further electric motor and the stirring unit also comprises a driver unit configured to drive the electric motor of the first actuator and the electric motor of the second actuator in such a way as to make the first base element and the second base element rotate independently of each other and wherein the second base element comprises a cylindrical element having at least one base face, the at least one second mixing vane (11, 14) being disposed to protrude from the at least one base face.