A method for providing a single serving of a frozen confection made in less than five minutes having a temperature between -8.3 and -3.3 degrees Celsius (17 and 26 degrees Fahrenheit) with an average diameter of ice crystals within the frozen confection of less than or equal to 50μm, the method comprising: filling low acid liquid ingredients having a pH level of 4.0 or greater into a pod; inserting the pod into a recess of a machine for providing the single serving of the frozen confection; contacting a sidewall of the pod against a sidewall of the recess; cooling the recess with a refrigeration system (109, 930, 940) of the machine, transferring heat from the pod while connecting a motor of the machine to a mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) inside the pod; and rotating the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) inside the pod to remove build-up of ice from an inner diameter of the pod and dispersing the ice into a center of the pod while mechanically churning the ice into a balance of the low-acid liquid and moving the warmer low-acid liquid ingredients from the center of the pod to the cooler inner diameter of the pod in contact with the recess of the machine to facilitate heat transfer; wherein the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951, 1350, 1550) is rotated by the motor, and wherein a rotational mixing speed of the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951, 1350, 1550) is controlled in response to a changing viscosity of the frozen confection within the pod, and wherein rotating the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) comprises increasing rotation of the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) from an initial mixing speed to a higher mixing speed of over 200 RPM while freezing the frozen confection and continuing to rotate the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) at the higher mixing speed while dispensing the frozen confection. filling low acid liquid ingredients having a pH level of 4.0 or greater into a pod; inserting the pod into a recess of a machine for providing the single serving of the frozen confection; contacting a sidewall of the pod against a sidewall of the recess; cooling the recess with a refrigeration system (109, 930, 940) of the machine, transferring heat from the pod while connecting a motor of the machine to a mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) inside the pod; and rotating the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) inside the pod to remove build-up of ice from an inner diameter of the pod and dispersing the ice into a center of the pod while mechanically churning the ice into a balance of the low-acid liquid and moving the warmer low-acid liquid ingredients from the center of the pod to the cooler inner diameter of the pod in contact with the recess of the machine to facilitate heat transfer; wherein the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951, 1350, 1550) is rotated by the motor, and wherein a rotational mixing speed of the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951, 1350, 1550) is controlled in response to a changing viscosity of the frozen confection within the pod, and wherein rotating the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) comprises increasing rotation of the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) from an initial mixing speed to a higher mixing speed of over 200 RPM while freezing the frozen confection and continuing to rotate the mixing paddle (160, 546, 950, 951,1350,1550) at the higher mixing speed while dispensing the frozen confection.