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Every pint is under 500 calories and up to 53g of protein! Reaching your health & fitness goals has never tasted better.
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I created these recipes using the Ninja Creami Deluxe. The original Ninja Creami pints are a bit smaller, so the ingredients must be adjusted down to fit.
A handheld blender, additional pints, and a food scale are handy for prepping multiple recipes and pints.
How Does Ninja Creami Differ from Traditional Ice Cream Makers and Blenders?
A regular ice cream maker churns an ingredient base as it freezes to create a light, airy, textured ice cream. While a blender can blend frozen ingredients, the final product doesn't have the creamy texture you achieve with the Ninja Creami.
The Ninja Creami offers a unique process that turns frozen mixtures. It shaves and churns your customized, frozen mixture into an ultra-creamy, dense ice cream treat. It’s truly a magical machine if you want to make customizable batches of high-quality, high-protein frozen desserts at home. You’ll understand once you spin your first pint.
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You won’t find a huge laundry list of ingredients that gather dust in your pantry. The majority of ingredients are used within multiple recipes and most items sourced at my local grocery store. In the event an item is hard for you to locate, here’s a helpful Amazon ingredient list.
Milk: unsweetened vanilla almond or cashew milk, Fairlife fat-free milk, and 2% chocolate milk. Fairlife milk is extra-filtered, so it’s lactose-free. I use them to provide additional flavor and protein to the selected recipes. You can swap for any milk of your choice.
Protein Powder: Quest vanilla, chocolate, and salted caramel are whey isolate and casein blends. The casein helps thicken the ice cream. You can swap for your protein of choice. However, if you don't like the flavor of your protein, you won't enjoy the finished ice cream.
Dairy: Vanilla, cherry, peach, key lime pie, and zero-sugar Greek yogurt add flavor and protein while helping create a creamy final product. You should be able to substitute any yogurt, including dairy-free options. I use Good Culture 2% cottage cheese for its flavor and macros, but any cottage cheese should also work. Light Laughing Cow cheese can be substituted with an equal serving of your choice of cream cheese. Light butter can be substituted with any butter.
Produce: strawberries, blueberries, mango, pineapple, dark cherries, granny smith apples, red apples, banana, pumpkin puree, orange, lime, shredded carrots, and Maraschino cherries. I’ve used fresh and frozen; both options should work for any recipe.
Sugar-free Jello Mix: sugar-free cheesecake, vanilla, chocolate, butterscotch, lemon pudding, and orange Jello mix. These add flavor and act as a thickener for the ice cream. Other thickeners like guar gum and Xanthan gum can also be used as an alternative. However, they won’t provide the flavor you get with Jello mixes. Full sugar mixes can be substituted and will contribute additional calories to your ice cream.
Flavor Extracts: vanilla, vanilla bean paste, coconut, cake batter, lemon, rum, peppermint, and butter. Vanilla extract and vanilla bean paste are likely interchangeable. However, vanilla bean paste seems to add a richer vanilla flavor.
Nuts: pecans, almonds, pistachios, peanuts, and powdered peanut butter, unsweetened shredded coconut.
Chocolate Chips: Lily’s milk, dark, and white chocolate chips are sweetened with stevia, lower in calories, and higher in fiber than traditional chocolate chips. Substitute with any chocolate chip of your preference.
Sugar: Swerve granular, brown, and confectioners’ sugar substitutes are erythritol-based sweeteners made from natural ingredients. Each gram of Swerve provides 1g of non-digestible carbs, so it’s calorie-free and does not affect blood sugar or insulin. Stevia, monk fruit, Truvia, or Splenda sweeteners also work. Substituting with regular sugars, such as coconut or agave, will provide an additional four calories per gram. For example, one tablespoon of coconut sugar = 50 calories.
Spices & Other Ingredients: cinnamon, cocoa powder, pumpkin pie, ginger, nutmeg, sugar-free syrup, espresso powder, sugar cones, marshmallows, sprinkles, rainbow candy-coated chocolate chips, quick oats, coconut flour, and Catalina Crunch graham cereal which can be substituted for any graham cracker.
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Every recipe provides a calorie and macronutrient breakdown for the entire pint based on the specific brands and ingredients. Cal = calories, F = fat, C =carbohydrates, P = protein.
Alternative ingredients and brands may change taste, texture, and final macros. For this reason, I recommend using a food tracking app, such as Lose It or MFP, to determine the calories and macros of the Protein Creami’s you make.
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“I created many of these recipes during my
own fat-loss journey to the competition stage. It’s my passion to
prove that a nutrition plan that supports your goals doesn’t mean giving
up the sweets you love!”
Breanne Freeman
Breanne Freeman placed 1st in Figure Open Class B and fourth in Figure Masters 35 at the 2023 Amateur Olympia
