Ninja Creami Review

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It’s been about two months since I got my Ninja Creami, and I wanted to take a moment and share my honest experience with it! For those that don’t know, the Ninja Creami is a new ice cream maker from the Ninja family of small cooking appliances.

For those that may be thinking “Why do I need another cooking machine?”, the Ninja Creami might make you want to rethink. Trust me, I don’t like to have unnecessary appliances that clutter my kitchen counter, but the Ninja Creami has earned a permanent home where I can easily access it. This Ninja Creami review explains why!

Let’s go through the specs of the machine, and then I can give you my reasons for loving it! Please note this review is for the 7-button Ninja Creami, not the 5-button option.

The Ninja Creami is an ice cream maker that allows a that has 7 functions:

• Ice Cream
• Lite Ice Cream
• Gelato
• Sorbet
• Smoothie Bowl
• Milkshake
• Mix-In

Each function combines a different mix speed, pressure, and time to ensure your frozen pint turns into the perfect creamy treat. The ice cream button is my favorite, as it creates the perfect ice cream every time.

However, having a machine that can make ice cream along with sorbet is amazing! We can simply use fruit in heavy syrup to create a delicious sorbet at the touch of a button. Having the option to mix-in ingredients has also been fun to experiment with.

It reminds me of when I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery as a kid and watch them hand-mix candy into my ice cream. The Ninja Creami basically provides the same mix-in quality, all in the comfort of your own home!

The machine typically comes with 2-3 pint containers, but they are available in many stores and online if you need more. Surprisingly, the price for a 2-pack of pints is around $20. As they are the only pints that can be used with the Ninja Creami machine, I was pleasantly surprised at the low price point.

The Creami also comes with a recipe book from Ninja, so you don’t need to worry about how to get started making flavors! While I recommend coming to my blog for recipes or other ice cream blogs, the recipe book provides a great start to learning how to use the Creami!

If you’re looking for recipe ideas or don’t know where you would start after getting a Creami, check out some of my favorites here: salted caramel, key lime pie, orange creamsicle, pumpkin pie, and chocolate peppermint!

Here is my pumpkin pie ice cream. Look how creamy it turned out!

Now onto the reasons why I personally love the Ninja Creami.

I am someone who could eat ice cream everyday of the year, even in the freezing temperatures. I just love the creamy texture and delicious tastes that I get in every bite. My husband also loves ice cream (maybe not as much as me), making it something we often enjoy together. We got married earlier this year in September, and one of our friends was trying to think of a good wedding gift.

When we were eating dinner with him one night, he told us he was thinking of getting us the Ninja Creami because he knew we both loved ice cream and it looked like a simple way to be able to make our own. I emphatically said yes, while my husband told him we did not need another cooking appliance, and we didn’t need to eat all of that ice cream. While he was saying this, I held my hand up between us and mouthed to our friend that yes, we still wanted it.

Thankfully, he listened to me and we ended up with a Ninja Creami! My husband has since come to love the machine just as much as I do, and we make at least one new flavor every week!

Now when it comes to ice cream, my husband and I can be pretty choosy. He has a nut allergy and is lactose-intolerant, so we try to get Lactaid ice cream, or splurge every once and a while on full dairy ice cream. We also have to be careful of a lot of flavors because they can contain nuts.

That’s where the Ninja Creami has been extremely helpful! We are able to know every single ingredient that goes into our ice cream, and not worry about nuts or cross contamination. We also are able to make the ice cream dairy-free. If you eat dairy-free ice cream, you know that the flavors available to purchase in stores can be limited.

With the Creami, we can create any flavor that we can dream up dairy-free.

To summarize, here are 5 reasons you need a Ninja Creami in your kitchen!

• Ingredients – Know exactly what is going into your ice cream, allowing you to accommodate any food allergies/intolerance.
• Customization – Create any flavor imaginable!
• Speed – Make ice cream in a day, typically with only 10 minutes of hands-on prep (depending on the style of ice cream or the recipe).
• Easy – Make ice cream by mixing everything into a bowl, freeze it, and press a button. It’s so simple!
• Small Footprint – The Ninja Creami doesn’t take up much room, and the design is sleek enough you won’t mind leaving it out on the countertop!

If you are ready to make quick and easy ice cream in any flavor, click the links below! Happy ice cream making!

                                                                    

Please note, I am not affiliated with Ninja and the opinions expressed in this review are solely my own.