Wowo Karen, I bet you're not dumping any of that ice!!! And you know all about making stuff...well...last night I brought home a KitchenAid stand mixer, dumped in a cup of light syrup and put it to work...I saw in the manual that the paddle shouldn't contact sides of bowl so I fiddled with the setting of it...anyway...I got maple sugar all right, but it's powdered! It's like icing sugar, and all I wanted was granulated! So now I've adjusted the thingy up a little so I can try to make granulated tonight :-)