Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Ice Cream (Ninja Creami)

The Ninja Creami machine truly lives up to the hype. The flavours and textures that you're able to achieve with protein ice cream changes the game for creating healthy desserts.

Calling all chocolate peanut butter lovers! This Ninja Creami Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Protein Ice Cream contains just 5 ingredients— milk, protein powder, sugar-free pudding mix, powdered peanut butter and reese's peanut butter cups of course. Once frozen and creamified in the Ninja Creami, it creates a delicious soft-serve textured ice cream that literally tastes like a Dairy Queen blizzard! You will not believe you are eating 56g of protein in one pint of this ice cream recipe.

Get a couple extra Ninja Creami pints and meal prep your protein desserts for the week. This peanut butter cup Ninja Creami will change your protein game!

Note that I have the Ninja Creami Deluxe model, which has 50% larger pints than the regular Ninja Creami. It also has 11 different modes and some new features compared to the original. I've scaled this recipe to serve 1-2 people, with quantities that will fit in the pint cups of any Ninja Creami machine so everyone can make it.

Ingredient Notes

Here are the ingredients you'll need to make this high protein ninja creami peanut butter ice cream:

• Milk—I like to use a combination of 2% milk and skim milk. This ensures the ice cream is creamy while keeping the calories low. You can use just one type of milk and it will turn out fine. Higher fat milk will yield a creamier texture. I also enjoy using a milk with increased protein, like Fairlife.
• 1 scoop chocolate protein powder—I like to use the Lean Fit Whey Chocolate Protein Powder from Costco. It is creamy and provides 24g protein per serving, plus it doesn't have any weird flavours. Any chocolate protein powder you like will work.
• Sugar-free pudding mix—You will find that sugar-free pudding mix is a common ingredient in creami recipes because it adds extra flavor and most importantly, a real ice cream-like thickness. While this recipe will still taste great without it, just 1 tablespoon really thickens up the low-fat milk to resemble full-fat ice cream.
• Powdered peanut butter—PB2 or PB&Me are brands of powdered peanut butter—a product where the oils are pressed out of peanuts to create a peanut powder. It packs the peanut butter flavor with less calories.
• Salt—a little pinch adds to the sweet and salty peanut butter flavor.
• Mini peanut butter cups—because they're delicious!

Substitutions

• No powdered peanut butter? Add 1-2 tablespoon of natural peanut butter to the ice cream base for that peanut flavor. Note that this will increase the calories.
• Use almond butter and almond butter cups if you want to change up the flavor.
• Dairy-Free—While you can use unsweetened almond milk and plant-based chocolate protein powder to make the base dairy free, reese's peanut butter cups do contain dairy.
• The Ninja Creami is also great for adding more mix ins like m&ms, chocolate chips, fruit chunks, cookie bits, etc. Blend on Lite Ice Cream first, Re-Spin if necessary, then add your mix-ins and blend on Mix-In.
• Sweetness—If you like your ice cream sweeter, add 1-2 teaspoon of your favourite sweetener to the base like maple syrup, honey, agave, or a sugar free alternative.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Be sure to read the recipe card below for the full recipe and nutrition facts. Note that I have the Ninja Creami Deluxe model, as photographed below. I've scaled this recipe to also fit in the smaller original models.

(1) Add the milk, protein powder, pudding mix, powdered peanut butter, and salt to a Ninja Creami pint container. Stir and freeze overnight.

Run the pint under warm water for 30 seconds then dry it off. Place in the outer bowl.

(2) Blend on “Lite Ice Cream”, then add 1-2 tablespoon extra milk and “Re-spin”. Stuff the peanut butter cups in the center of the ice cream and blend on "Mix-In" mode.

(3) Top with a drizzle of natural peanut butter and extra mini reese's cups. Enjoy immediately!