Ninja Creami Coconut Cream Pie Protein Ice Cream

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Looking for Ninja Creami recipes? My favorite protein ice cream flavor to date made has to be coconut cream pie. The ice cream reminds me of the coconut cream pie ice cream at Handel’s. If you’re unfamiliar, Handel’s is a homemade ice cream chain that was donned “#1 ice cream on the planet” by Discovery Channel. I first tried their coconut cream pie ice cream when I was pregnant in 2007 and started crying because it was that good. I don’t know if my protein version will make you cry, but it certainly might when you see the macros.

 

Let’s acknowledge the contraption that makes the ice cream.  It’s the Ninja creami ice cream maker. It is one of the best inventions of all time. You can make regular ice cream and shakes but what’s so great is you can make healthy high protein ice cream that is just as delicious as the real thing. It’s wild. I thought it was just another over-hyped social media trend and ignored it for six months. I finally caved when I saw I could get a basic model (that’s all you need) at Walmart. I ordered it and got it in a few days.

 

The only downside to this recipe is you have to freeze the mixture for 24 hours. That’s how it goes for all the ice cream made with the creami. To make it less frustrating, I bought extra creami containers and make several flavors at once and keep them in the freezer and mix one up as needed. Just like you’d keep ice cream stored in the freezer. Plan ahead and you’ll always have your healthy ice cream on hand.

 

What Elso do I Need to get?

This recipe calls for a couple other things you probably don’t have on hand and that’s coconut cream protein powder and Fairlife milk. For protein powder, I love the brand Clean Simple Eats. You can use my coupon code LAURENBOWER for an additional 10% off. The reason you want Fairlife milk is it packs more protein than cow’s milk and is lactose-free. It’s sold at all major grocery chains. The best method to mixing the ice cream ingredients is a traditional blender or my preferred method, a blender bottle. It’s easier than lugging out the blender and so easy to clean!

 

 

What’s protein ice cream like?

Now about this coconut cream ice cream. The recipe makes a creamy coconut ice cream with hunks of Nilla wafers and swirls of marshmallow fluff. The texture of all the creami lite ice creams comes out like a blizzard if you do all the cycles. The first cycle is “lite ice cream.” This cycle turns the rock-solid frozen ice cream into a hard ice cream like you would get at a scoop ice cream shop. Add a little liquid and run on the second “re-spin” cycle and you get really creamy ice cream similar to soft serve. Then add your mix ins and run the third “mix ins” cycle and you get a consistency similar to a blizzard or McFlurry.

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Tips for the Best Ninja Creami Protein Ice Cream

• Freeze for the full 24 hours. Make a bunch at once and this won’t be quite as annoying.
• You’ll notice the edges of the ice cream don’t get mixed perfectly, if you run hot water around the outside of your container before running it in the machine that can help.
• If you like larger hunks of mix-ins, then don’t run the “mix-ins” cycle and just mix by hand.