Ninja Creami Cherry Sorbet (3 Ingredients) - Recipe Diaries (2024)

FAQs

Can I put frozen fruit in my Ninja Creami? ›

Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream Maker

We love our Creami. To use your frozen fruit, follow your instructions from the recipes that came with your Creami. If you want to make fruit ice cream thaw your fruit, place in a food processor and mix it with the vanilla ice cream recipe.

Ice cream machines work by churning / aerating mixtures whilst freezing them. As the mixture freezes, the churning action breaks down large ice crystals, producing that creamy smooth texture we know and love.

Unboxing the Ninja ice cream maker

Usefully, this ice cream maker comes with a large recipe book as well as three one-pint containers with lids that are used both to mix the ice cream and store it afterwards.

Pour the canned diced peaches and their liquid into a Ninja Creami pint container, being careful not to exceed the max fill line. If you're adding any sweetener, go ahead and stir it in now. Taste and adjust as needed. Freeze.

Skipping this crucial step may lead to uneven textures, detracting from the indulgent experience you seek from your home-made dessert. The whole premise of the Ninja Creami machine is that it operates differently than a traditional ice cream maker, which uses a churning process.

My frozen treat looks crumbly or powdery after processing. When bases are frozen in very cold freezers, they may come out crumbly. After running a One-Touch Program, use the RE-SPIN Program to make your frozen treat smoother and creamier.

Sugar plays a larger roll in the sorbet than just sweetening the fruit juice. It's also crucial for the sorbet's texture. Too little sugar and the sorbet becomes icy, too much and it can be slushy — hit the sugar level just right and the sorbet will taste creamy and melt evenly across your tongue.

If your sorbet is rock-hard after churning and freezing: Allow it to sit on the counter for 5 minutes to soften before scooping OR. Melt the base back down to liquid, add more sugar, or a bit of corn syrup, or a splash of alcohol, then re-churn and refreeze.

Adding a bit of hard alcohol like vodka, tequila, or whiskey—all of which run around forty percent alcohol—to a frozen dessert helps prevent big ice crystals from forming in the mixture, resulting in a softer texture. You can freeze the water around it, but you can't freeze vodka.

Because the thick blades of the Creami can't fully reach the edges or bottom of the pint containers, though, the appliance leaves sections of totally unmixed, frozen base. So even if the blended parts are impressively smooth, depending on how carefully you scoop, you're likely to get some icy bits in your bowl.

Why does my Ninja Creami smell like it's burning? ›

But it takes a lot of force to repeatedly drill a blade through material that's frozen solid, and we could tell that the machine was working hard—maybe too hard. As we tested the Creami, it shook and smelled of burning plastic more than once. One taster even detected a burnt-plastic flavor in the ice cream.

The Ninja works in reverse

The Creami requires the ice cream mixture itself to be completely frozen but no part of the machine needs such treatment. Because of that, you can make as many varieties as you want in a single day, just as long as you've remembered to mix them and freeze them the day before.

Pour mixture into an empty CREAMi™ Pint. Add cola and stir with a spoon to combine and eliminate the carbonation. Place storage lid on pint and freeze for 24 hours.

After your first spin, sometimes you open it and find that your ice cream is crumbly or powdery. Don't stop now. Just add a tablespoon or two of liquid and spin on respin. If your ice cream has been in the freezer a long time or your freezer is extra cold, you may even have to repeat the respin several times.

Strawberries: fresh OR frozen. If you use frozen strawberries then you'll likely need a little liquid to get your blender going. You can just add in a splash of water but you could also use milk of any kind. Sugar: I've made this with AND without sugar and both turn out great.

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Continue adding more berries and pressing down with a heavy kitchen utensil until all berries are pressed into the pint just below the MAX FILL line. Place storage lid on pint and freeze for 24 hours.

Yes, you can absolutely put whole frozen strawberries in a blender to make smoothies. I do this all the time with my Ninja Blender to make the most delicious strawberry banana smoothie bowls.