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Ice cream in December? Oh hell yeah. Ninja’s Creami Scoop & Swirl ice cream maker is 20 percent off for Black Friday, dropping it to a new all-time low of $279.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, and SharkNinja’s online storefront. It can make hard and soft serve ice cream, and, as my colleague Jen Tuohy found this summer, you can make some pretty fun recipes with it.
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Ninja’s clever 2-in-1 machine can spin up soft serve and traditional hard scoops in a few easy steps, not to mention creamy milkshakes, gelato, and frozen yogurt.
The Ninja Creami makes ice cream on one side, which you then dispense as soft-serve on the other. Just a heads-up: it takes about 24 hours to freeze the ice cream. But you can also turn store-bought ice cream into soft serve “in seconds,” according to our reviewer. Tuohy also found online communities with fun recipes, so she tried a few other things.
In her words, “I’ve also enjoyed creating unusual frozen delights in the Ninja. Inspired by a very active Reddit forum, we tried frozen tomato soup (really yummy), fresh watermelon mixed with condensed milk (ah-ma-zing), and my son’s morning protein smoothies in frozen form — the perfect way to prep him for a day of lifeguarding at the local pool.“
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