8 frozen yogurts

This looks great. I wish you took a bi more time to render a solid background...

Thanks,  Igor.  I hear ya.  I was so hell-bent on trying to create the swirl pattern and material-look of frozen soft-serve ice cream that nothing else mattered.

Well, you definitely manage to do a great job with ice-cream. Now make a bit more effort and do a nice background and just slightly make some more variations of those spoon positions.

I think I was trying to create a design like a Warhol or a Wayne Thiebaud,   where images are repeated rather dumbly and cryptically.

 

How did ya get the ice cream then ?!  Volume builder ?

Cerbera:   at first I thought I could just sweep a star spline primitive over a helix spline.    But that was unconvincing,   and did not look like the ice cream photos I was looking at on Google Images.

And the Star spline primitive wasn't quite right,  either,  because its "teeth" weren't acute enough at their tips. 

My final solution was to create a special star shape in Illustrator...   merge it into C4D,     then extrude it into a long pipe shape.     Then I used a "Twist" deformer to twist the long star/pipe shape along its length.   This was key,  I observed,  because the real-life ice cream swirls get twisted AS they distribute the ice cream into a pile.  

From there I used the Spline Wrap deformer to bend that twisted pipe into a spiral shape using the Helix as my spline.     

That basically worked,  but was too sharp-edged.   So exactly as you observed,  I ran it all through the Volume Builder to soften the overall look and let the "ice cream' sort of melt into itself at various junctures.

From there I just tried to make my Material include all the little qualities of a semi-frozen milk-based product...   lots of SSS,  AO used to make tonal variations,   and my attempt to make the surface "sparkle" a little bit to represent frozen crystals.

There is a frozen yogurt store in my town... and these 8 flavors are the ones they serve.  vanilla,  chocolate,  strawberry,  coffee,  mango,   banana,   green apple and unflavored.