There are soooo many Ninja Creami books out there! You’ve heard people so frustrated because they bought a book and it looked SO official, the Ninja font and a bunch of stock photos that make that cover look like the real deal, yet their recipes aren’t even sniffing a creami! Some seem to think you can bake and blend in it, and the recipes seem to be just gathered from the internet or AI generated, rather than the work of the authors. You open them up to see no photos or black and white stock photos and random recipes for all sorts of appliances, but not the Ninja Creami! Or “recipes” filled with dial-a-premade protein shake and coordinating pudding mix. I wouldn’t buy a $200 appliance to make frozen pudding. It just tastes like pudding instead of ice cream. You’d just go make pudding if you wanted pudding. Add to that, fake Facebook accounts dropping sincere sounding reviews of their own book. I get why you’re bummed! And you don’t have to deal with that!
So I’d like to alleviate any worry about my own books. Jen’s Protein Nice Creams The recipes are all my own, sometimes ideas that woke me up with excitement in the middle of the night, created in my kitchen, and there’s a photograph of each ice cream taken by me and made in my creami. The books have 30 recipes each (book 3 is longer than that). They were made with love and published so that anyone can get their creami wins. They’re delicious, easy, and thoughtful. No AI generated randomness or hallucinations here!
I won’t show you the recipes, but here’s a page from each book so you can see what to expect!
What’s in them?! Ingredient FAQs…
I’m not a nutritionist or a dietician. I’m a foodie. A massive foodie. I have created amazing tasting ice creams that fit my own nutrition goals. High-flavor, high-protein, high-produce where flavor-appropriate, and low-fat within flavor reason.
Is it healthy? Yes! I’ve been a “healthy” food blogger for 10 years and won monthly prizes for a few years for being the top contributor on a healthy meal prep group. But if you ask 10 health-conscious people, making intentional food decisions what “healthy” means to them, you are likely to get 10 different answers. So I’d rather tell you what I mean by that word, so you can tell whether or not it works for you!
Let’s start with sugar. The quick answer is no, I don’t add any sugar. But there is naturally occurring sugar in so many real ingredients. Cottage cheese has sugar. Fruits and vegetables have sugar. Protein powder has a little sugar. I am using Swerve in almost every flavor. It tastes like sugar. It has no aftertaste and it’s zero calories. Some people opt for honey or maple syrup, but those are calorically high and I don’t want to get my calories from sweeteners. You can absolutely sub in whatever sweetener you’d like!! The exceptions are a few flavors where honey is part of the flavor, so I’m using honey. And the topping on the crème brulee in book 3. That is the only flavor that gets actual sugar added.
Puddings/Gums. I don’t use any of those at all. They’re unnecessary. Pudding tastes like pudding, and I want my ice creams to taste like decadent ice cream!
Is it low carb? Like “healthy”, people mean different things by “low-carb”. If you mean things like bread and pasta, nope, the ice creams don’t have anything like that! But if you mean produce, about half of the flavors in each book contain a ton of produce. And my sweetener, Swerve, contains 12 grams of carbs per tablespoon. Zero calories, but it has carbs.
Fat. I try to keep the fat low within flavor reason. The fruit flavors are at the lower end of the spectrum (generally around 5 grams for half of a Ninja Deluxe container). The coconut, nut, and gelato flavors are at the higher end of the spectrum in my recipes (generally around 20 grams for half of a Deluxe container). If you enjoy higher fat in your diet, I’d recommend starting with book 3. That’s where you’ll find a few gelatos, a few coconut flavors, and some nuts. You can convert any of the flavors to gelatos if those numbers suit you better.
Protein. The range is about 35-50 grams for a half of a Deluxe container (about 12 ounces of nice cream). Consistently eating healthy and working out worked just fine for me until I hit perimenopause. I run and lift weights. An unwanted 25 pounds showed up, quite uninvited, mostly around my abdomen. My target is 0.8-1.0 grams of protein per pound of body weight every day. I’ve been consistent and have taken off 17 pounds of those perimenopausal pounds since Christmas from recipe development! I haven’t changed anything else except being consistent with those protein numbers and a slight calorie deficit. So happy about that! 8 more to go!
I list the protein, fat, carbs and calories by ingredient in all of my recipes. Everyone has food preferences. You can swap in by ingredient for preferences and allergies and modify the numbers for that ingredient. Some macro users don’t use the calories on nutrition labels, preferring to do calculations based on the protein, fat, and carbs. Everything is listed so you can ignore that calorie column and swap in your own calculations. Of potential interest – calories for Swerve are not adjusted with a carb calculation for many macro users. If that’s important to you, I encourage you to check with your preferred macro rules/coach/provider.
Substitutions! A few friends messaged that a specific milk or cottage cheese don’t work for their bodies, so I give alternatives on page 6 of each book, how to swap in tofu to convert the recipes to to-fruities! The macros are really close, but I give the adjustments to the numbers there, too. Absolutely sub in whatever milk and sweetener you’d like for your preferences/allergies!
You have a different Creami model? The measurements in my books are all for a Ninja Creami Deluxe. Have a different model? Here’s a handy-dandy measurement conversion chart for you!
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First up! My books!
Jen’s Protein Nice Creams
Jen’s Protein Nice Creams 2
Jen’s Protein Nice Creams 3
Hope you love them!!!
Next! You need a machine!
I have the Ninja Creami Deluxe 11-in-1. The containers hold 24 oz and it has the most settings. All of my recipes are made for these 24 ounce containers. Those 24 oz containers are perfect for the hub and I to split. This machine is amazing!
The Ninja Creami 7-in-1 is also highly rated. It has a few fewer functions and the containers are 16 oz. If you’re going this route, just make 2/3 of each of my recipes and modify the nutritional info to 2/3!
An immersion (stick) blender.
Cuisinart Smart Stick Blender. This fits right into the container, so you can mix your base without having any extra dishes. It makes it all streamlined. You could do it in a food processor, but that’s a lot of cleaning after each flavor. The immersion blender makes it so easy and tidy that you’ll use it all the time! (And not ice cream related, but combining a stick blender and a mason jar, sauces and dips are a breeze!)
Extra containers!
The Ninja Creami Deluxe comes with 2 containers. After you blend your base, you have to stick it in the freezer for 24 hours before it goes in the Creami. I bought two extra sets of 4 containers so that I’d have a total of 10 to work with. I personally went with generic. They are cheap and work just as well! BE SURE TO GET THE RIGHT CONTAINERS FOR YOUR MACHINE!!!! THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE!
4 pack of the 24 oz Deluxe size 4 pack of the 16 oz 7-in-1 size
Wine glass covers.
10 Silicone Mug Cup Covers. Huh???? Yeah. Things expand when they freeze. The top of your concoction is perfectly level when you put it in your freezer. You pull it out and some weird frozen sculpture is trying to emerge from the surface. We don’t want to break our Creami blade! What to do? Some people put their mixtures in the freezer with the lids off until they freeze. Others shave down the icy protrusion. I just pop a wine glass cover right on the mixture’s surface and pop my lid on. Solved!
Protein powders
The first two are the main two I use for everything! (I’m putting links for the 2 lb containers, but the 5 lb are more economical!) The next three are fabulous, one recipe powders to add to your collection after the main two!
All 3 books Vanilla ice cream whey Extreme milk chocolate whey
Book 1 only Girl Scout Thin Mint Girl Scout Coconut Caramel S’mores whey (Amazon only has the 5 lb right now. I’ll update the link when the put the 2 pound back up.)
Books 2 and 3 Ryse Jet-Puffed (Several flavors and I’m in love with this stuff!!! It’ll be in book 3, too!)
Book 2 only Quest Salted Caramel
Book 3 only Unflavored Collagen – lots of recipes Vanilla Casein – 1 recipe
Sweeteners
The first two are my main. I just use the confectioner’s version for red velvet, but you could totally use plain. Absolutely sub in whatever your favorite sweetener is!
Regular Swerve, Brown Sugar Swerve, Confectioner’s Swerve – There’s an Amazon pack with all 3!
Extracts
Sometimes, even with 1 ½ to 2 cups of fabulous fruit in the concoctions, the flavor just wants a little boost to push it from yummy to fabulous! I love extracts.
Vanilla extract Almond Extract Rum extract Butter extract Strawberry extract Raspberry extract
Peach flavor Buttery sweet dough emulsion Boiled cider
Add to the bin for Book Two Mango Coconut
Add to the bin for book 3 Vanilla Bean Paste Cream cheese icing flavor Caramel flavor
Butterscotch flavor Rose water
Other Stuff
PB Fit (low fat peanut butter powder)
Max Mallows (zero sugar marshmallows) Only a 6-pack is available now. I’ll update this link when 1 or 3 are back up. Burnt Caramel flavor Max Mallows – pack of 6
Jordan’s Skinny Sauces Salted Caramel Fun addition, BUT!!!! It’s like a jack in the box. You lightly squeeze and nothing. A tiny bit more pressure and a violent stream rockets out! I look like Will Ferrell in Elf squeezing it in the most tentative manner. I just increased the size of the hole and it’s less dramatic. lol!
Lavender
Hibiscus
