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The Ninja Creami is a fun kitchen appliance for making homemade ice cream with simple ingredients. You'll love having creamy ice cream at home and making different flavors!
Why You'll Love Having a Ninja Creami Machine
- Make healthy homemade ice cream with protein and simple ingredients.
- Customize flavors for tasty ice cream based on your taste preferences.
- It's a game changer for meal prepping healthy desserts for the week!
- You can make many different healthy Ninja Creami recipes, including soft serve, sorbet, gelato, smoothie bowls, and milkshakes.
- Sweet treat with a delicious creamy texture the whole family will love.
- Tastes much better than store-bought protein ice cream.
Ice Cream Base Ideas
Here are some of the top ideas for ice cream bases to make healthy Ninja Creami recipes:
- Fairlife protein shake (my favorite protein shake for this healthy Ninja Creami recipe)
- Fairlife core power protein shake
- Fairlife milk with protein
- Whole milk
- Chocolate milk
- Frozen fruit such as blueberries, strawberries, peaches, mango, or bananas.
- Almond milk, oat milk, coconut milk, or another plant-based milk
How to Add Extra Protein to Ice Cream
These are some of our favorite add-ins or ice cream bases for making protein ice cream:
- Vanilla protein powder
- Chocolate protein powder
- Collagen powder
- Blended cottage cheese ( I use an immersion blender for this)
- Plain Greek yogurt
- Vanilla Greek yogurt
Topping Ideas for Protein Ice Cream
Here are a few of our favorite toppings to add to your healthy Ninja Creami recipes:
- Peanut butter
- Peanut butter powder
- Chocolate syrup
- Cinnamon
- Reese's Thins
- Cereal
- Granola
- Pretzels
- Brownie Brittle
- Fiber One Brownies
- Kit Kat thins
- Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, or 3 Musketeers Minis
- Cereal
- Graham crackers
- Chocolate chips
Troubleshooting Making Ninja Creami Recipes
If you find your Ninja cream ice cream to be too icy or has icy edges, there is not enough liquid, or you are using low-fat milk. Full-fat milk will create the right consistency.
Also, I almost always add a splash of milk re-spin for a creamier texture. The re-spin function is also needed when you are making the ice cream ahead of time.
Adding more liquid is a great alternative to adding instant pudding mix or guar gum. You can add these to your recipe, but adding more liquid and completing a second spin will do the trick.
Expert Tips
- Add Greek yogurt or cottage cheese to make the ice cream have even more grams of protein per serving. This also helps to make the texture creamy.
- Allow the frozen pint container to sit at room temperature for 10 minutes before the initial spin.
FAQs about the Ninja Creami Ice Cream Maker
Ninja recommends a full 24 hours for the ice cream to freeze before using the machine. I've been able to make delicious ice cream with just an overnight freeze (8-12 hours.)
Besides making homemade ice cream, you can make smoothie bowls, gelato, sorbet, and milkshakes.
You can use frozen fruit and a liquid like coconut water or lemonade to make a light and refreshing sorbet.
The Ninja Creami is not the same as a regular ice cream maker. It has no cooling mechanism and requires an overnight freeze of the ice cream.
It is more versatile than a traditional ice cream maker since it can also make a smoothie bowl, gelato, sorbet, or a milkshake.
I recommend either a protein milk like Fairlife or a protein shake when making a healthy ice cream recipe. If you are looking for plant-based milk, try full-fat oat milk for a creamy non-dairy option.
Store leftover ice cream in an airtight container. I use the Ninja Creami pint container provided. I also use Ninja Creami containers I found on Amazon.
Ninja Creami Fairlife Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Ice Cream
Equipment
- Ninja Creami
Ingredients
- 1 340 mL bottle Fairlife Chocolate Protein Shake
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter powder
- 1 scoop Orgain vanilla protein powder
- 2 tablespoon Greek yogurt
Instructions
- Add ⅔ of the Fairlife protein shake, peanut butter powder, protein powder, and Greek yogurt to the ice cream container. Mix gently until incorporated.1 340 mL bottle Fairlife Chocolate Protein Shake, 1 tablespoon peanut butter powder, 1 scoop Orgain vanilla protein powder, 2 tablespoon Greek yogurt
- Place the lid on the container and place in the freezer for 8-12 hours. Reserve the remaining protein shake for re-spinning.
- Remove the container and let it sit at room temperature for 10 minutes. Remove the lid and place the container in the bowl and secure the locking lid. Secure the bowl and lid to the Ninja Creami then select the lite ice cream function.
- Once the cycle is completed, release the locking lid and remove it from the bowl. If needed, add in the remaining protein shake and any mix-ins and select the re-spin function or use the mix-in function if adding toppings.
Notes
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Debbie Fites says
I'm trying to follow the recipe from your youtube video and I can't find it! This was the link but it does NOT tell how much milk you used. I got 1/2 c cottage cheese blended from the video. other ingredient amounts?
Lyndsey Piccolino says
Hi Debbie - just fill the liquid up to the fill line once the other ingredients are in.