Ninja Creami and Other Ice Cream Makers

Beth Gallagher

Beth Gallagher

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I know that a few of us have Ninja Creami machines, and some own various ice cream makers of other types. If you make homemade ice cream or frozen desserts, please share your recipes and/or suggestions.

I haven't used my Creami in several months since we don't eat much ice cream in the colder weather. In fact, I just threw out a couple of cartons of store-bought ice cream from the freezer that was too old and had ice crystals in it.
 
Our neighbour has a few gut issues and his wife has a ninja icecream maker , I believe she uses a ready made packet mix to make various flavours , he can eat ….we’ve tasted coffee and Strawberry ….think she said it’s lactose that upsets him
I know she paid around $450.00 for her machine
 
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Kate Ellery said:
Our neighbour has a few gut issues and his wife has a ninja icecream maker , I believe she uses a ready made packet mix to make various flavours , he can eat ….we’ve tasted coffee and Strawberry ….think she said it’s lactose that upsets him
I know she paid around $450.00 for her machine
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I haven't used my Ninja in a long time; right now it's just too cold. I know that @Yvonne Smith uses hers a lot. I was thinking we might hear from @Marie Mallory since she just bought a Creami.
 
We have not been making ice cream in this cold weather. Right now, mocha coffee (with dark cocoa powder) has been working better than anything cold.
Once we are done with this cold weather, and it begins to look like spring, we will be making ice cream again.

I think that there are several kinds of ready-made options you can use with the Ninja Creami. Some people use the low carb ones, but they also have regular ones, I think. I remember seeing an advertisement for something like that, but did not pay close attention to it.

I often have yogurt or kefir and get my probiotics that way, but Bobby is not a big fan of either food, so he only gets those probiotics when I mix the yogurt into something, like when I make the ice cream with yogurt.
It is not actually ice cream, just a kind of frozen smoothie , but it tastes delicious , and we enjoy it in the summertime.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
We have not been making ice cream in this cold weather. Right now, mocha coffee (with dark cocoa powder) has been working better than anything cold.
Once we are done with this cold weather, and it begins to look like spring, we will be making ice cream again.

I think that there are several kinds of ready-made options you can use with the Ninja Creami. Some people use the low carb ones, but they also have regular ones, I think. I remember seeing an advertisement for something like that, but did not pay close attention to it.

I often have yogurt or kefir and get my probiotics that way, but Bobby is not a big fan of either food, so he only gets those probiotics when I mix the yogurt into something, like when I make the ice cream with yogurt.
It is not actually ice cream, just a kind of frozen smoothie , but it tastes delicious , and we enjoy it in the summertime.
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Yvonne right now we're working on garden prep's and Jake is cutting another trail in the woods, I ask him not to kill any small trees, or go around as many as possible.

Later today we plan on trying out the creami.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Yvonne right now we're working on garden prep's and Jake is cutting another trail in the woods, I ask him not to kill any small trees, or go around as many as possible.

Later today we plan on trying out the creami.
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Great ! I have never made any ice cream using coconut milk. Are you blending the coconuts to make milk, or how are you doing that, @Marie Mallory ?
I have always used either cottage cheese or yogurt , for the protein and probiotics, so I am looking forward to hearing how vegan ice cream comes out. What else are you putting in it besides the coconut milk ?
 
Yvonne Smith said:
Great ! I have never made any ice cream using coconut milk. Are you blending the coconuts to make milk, or how are you doing that, @Marie Mallory ?
I have always used either cottage cheese or yogurt , for the protein and probiotics, so I am looking forward to hearing how vegan ice cream comes out. What else are you putting in it besides the coconut milk ?
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Yvonne, I have no idea, since we haven't used it yet, but I did go on YT and see a few idea's although I forgot what the heck they were. I'll see if I saved one or can find one and paste it here.
 
The hard part is always having to wait until the next day to actually eat the ice cream. When i am making the smoothie for the ice cream, I know it has to freeze for 24 hours before i can put it in the Creami, but I wish it didn’t have to wait that long. That is one benefit of some of the other ice cream makers that can actually freeze it when you are making the ice cream, and you can eat it right away.
Ninja has some kind of a soft-freeze maker, and I think it also freezes the smoothies, but I am not sure how it works, and it is really expensive right now.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
The hard part is always having to wait until the next day to actually eat the ice cream. When i am making the smoothie for the ice cream, I know it has to freeze for 24 hours before i can put it in the Creami, but I wish it didn’t have to wait that long. That is one benefit of some of the other ice cream makers that can actually freeze it when you are making the ice cream, and you can eat it right away.
Ninja has some kind of a soft-freeze maker, and I think it also freezes the smoothies, but I am not sure how it works, and it is really expensive right now.
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Here a short recipe ,although I'll use fresh coconut, so I have to crack the nut, put halves in oven on 400 10 minutes, then take out the fruit, blend and then start to make the non dairy ice cream.
 
Now that I am making kefir again, and the weather is warming back up, we are wanting to make the high protein frozen yogurt/kefir ice cream again.
The problem is that the freezer is full, and we need more room for the ninja freezer containers.

So, I am looking on Amazon at the miniature countertop freezers, just to keep the frozen containers in and then when we want ice cream, we can just make it and not have to always wait for the 24 hours to freeze the batter mix.

I finished that Apple Watch study, and will be getting some amazon gift cards for that before long, and I am thinking that as soon as I get the gift cards, i will order a small freezer just to keep the ninja ice cream containers in. I should be able to make several at once and freeze them, and then we can just take some out when we want ice cream. Ours makes the 16 oz size,which is just the right amount for each of us.

I also looked at regular ice cream makers, but the ones with a freezer compressor weight a ton and cost a lot of money, and still would only make about a pint at a time. The others all have to have something frozen and stored in the freezer before you can make ice cream.
I really like the ninja, and amused to using it, so getting the tiny freezer seems like a plan.

 
Today, I made my first “bean milkshake” from the book. It actually was delicious, and not bean tasting at all, just like the pudding. I am sure that I can make ice cream from the mixture once we get a small freezer for the Ninja , so I have somewhere to store the containers. I will share the recipe, and also the little changes I made.
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I used a half can of beans, which is about 6 oz, not 4 oz. I only had one banana, and it was not frozen. I had strawberries, so that is what I used for berries, and I added ice, since nothing was frozen.

I also added part of a scoop of whey protein, creatine, and MSM.
About half of it filled me up, so I have the rest in the fridge and will have it later. Maybe. That was around 1PM, it is now almost 5PM, and I am still not hungry.
 
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Tonight, I am researching some overnight oats recipes on YouTube, and I discovered that this person made hers into ice cream with her Ninja Creami ………. How awesome !
Here is the short video, it does not say how she made her overnight oats, but probably any recipe would work if you just mixed it and then put it in the creami container and froze it overnight.

I am definitely going to try making this !
I have had overnight oats before, but didn’t find any recipes that I really was happy with, enough to make it very often.
My Ninja Foodi cookbook has a recipe for making overnight oats where you cook them briefly first, which helps to turn the oats into resistant starch (better for blood sugar), so I might try making that recipe and then making it into oatmeal ice cream.

 
Today I discovered that the Ninja Creami containers will fit on the shelf of the freezer door, so i emptied it and now I am going to make some ice cream mixes so we can have ice cream again.

I found a kindle book on making overnight oats, and one to make them into smoothies, so I am going to try some of the recipes in the creami, after watching the videos of people getting their oatmeal in a bowl of ice cream. It will be great for the hot weather this summer, and Bobby always needs more fiber foods.

This is the first recipe I am going to try out. I am just using regular milk, not Fairlife, and I do have some mango in the freezer that I can use. I will make us each one of these and one that is chocolate and banana in it, so we have variety.


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