Ninja Creami Caramel Cookie Supreme Protein Ice Cream

Caramel ice cream loaded with chunks of sugar cookie dough and pieces of Werther’s Original candies? Yes please!!! This Ninja Creami caramel cookie supreme protein ice cream is creamy, sweet, and tastes like a no-bake sugar cookie wrapped up in caramel ice cream with 30 grams of protein in the ENTIRE pint.

This recipe comes in at 308 calories, 30 grams of protein, 7.5 grams of sugar, 7 grams of fat, and 31 carbs for the ENTIRE pint.

If you love cookie dough ice cream, this one is for you. The caramel protein shake base gives you that smooth caramel flavor without having to use a ton of caramel sauce, and the no-bake sugar cookie dough chunks mixed in taste just like eating raw sugar cookie dough straight from the bowl. With the Werther’s Original pieces added in too, every bite has caramel ice cream, soft cookie dough, and a little bit of caramel candy crunch.

The no-bake sugar cookie dough is what makes this Ninja Creami recipe so good. I use the kind that is sold as safe to eat raw, which you can usually find in the refrigerated section near the regular cookie dough at your grocery store. The cookie dough pieces stay soft after mixing in, so every spoonful gives you these chewy chunks of sugar cookie dough that taste just like the real thing.

If you can’t find no-bake cookie dough at your grocery store, you can make raw cookie dough safe to eat at home. The two main concerns with regular cookie dough are raw flour and raw eggs. To make it safe, use a recipe that has no eggs (cookie dough doesn’t actually need them) and heat-treat your flour first by spreading it on a baking sheet and baking at 350°F for about 7 minutes, or microwaving it in 30 second bursts until it reaches 165°F. Let the flour cool completely before mixing it into your dough.

The Werther’s Original candies add the perfect little bit of crunch in every bite. They stay hard after mixing in, but since you break them up into small pieces ahead of time, they are not hard on your teeth at all. They give you that sweet caramel flavor that pairs so well with the caramel protein shake base and the sugar cookie dough chunks throughout the ice cream.

The sugar-free cheesecake instant pudding mix is doing the heavy lifting on the texture in this recipe. It acts as a thickener that keeps the ice cream creamy and smooth instead of icy, and it adds a hint of cheesecake flavor that pairs really well with the caramel and sugar cookie dough. Make sure to use INSTANT pudding mix and not cook-and-serve, since cook-and-serve won’t thicken without being heated.

Ingredient tips and substitutions

The full ingredient list is at the bottom of this post in the recipe card.

• Caramel Protein Shake: Any of your favorite caramel protein shakes will work in this recipe, and if you don’t have one, use the same volume of your milk of choice mixed with vanilla protein powder plus a little extra caramel syrup, adjusting the flavor and sweetness based on what you use (a splash of vanilla extract can help round out the flavor).
• Sugar-Free Cheesecake Instant Pudding Mix: Make sure to use INSTANT pudding mix only, not cook-and-serve or premade pudding, and regular pudding mix with sugar in it works fine if that’s what you have.
• Sugar-Free Caramel Syrup: This is the thin coffee syrup that you add to drinks, not the thick caramel topping, and any brand of sugar-free or regular caramel coffee syrup works as a substitute.
• No-Bake Sugar Cookie Dough: Make sure to use cookie dough that is safe to eat raw (the kind found in the refrigerated section that is specifically labeled as safe to eat without baking), and if you can’t find it, you can make your own at home by heat-treating the flour and leaving out the eggs (or crumbled baked sugar cookies work as a substitute too).
• Sugar-Free Werther’s Original: Regular Werther’s Originals will work in place of the sugar-free version, just break them into small pieces before adding them down the center of the pint so they aren’t hard on your teeth.
• Unsweetened Almond Milk (Optional): This only gets used if the ice cream looks dry or crumbly after the first spin, and any dairy or non-dairy milk works in its place like whole milk, 2% milk, heavy cream, coconut milk, oat milk, cashew milk, or Fairlife milk (the higher the fat content, the creamier the texture).

Directions for Making the Ice Cream Mixture

1. Pour the protein shake, pudding mix, and caramel syrup into a small blender and blend together until the pudding mix is completely combined with the liquids. Pour the mixture into the Ninja Creami pint container.
2. Freeze on a level surface for 24 hours. Your freezer should be between 9 and -7 degrees Fahrenheit. To avoid getting a bump on the top of the frozen mixture, freeze with the lid off of the container.

Directions for Processing the Ice Cream Mixture

1. After 24 hours, remove the pint container from the freezer.
2. Place the pint container into the outer bowl of the Ninja Creami and then process on “LITE ICE CREAM.”
3. If the ice cream is dry or crumbly looking, pour in a tablespoon or two of unsweetened almond milk and then respin. You may have to repeat this process a couple of times.
4. Pour the no-bake sugar cookie pieces and Werther’s Original pieces down the center of the ice cream and then process on mix-ins.
5. Remove the pint from the machine and enjoy!

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Caramel Cookie Supreme Protein Ice Cream

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Servings: 1 Pint

Calories: 308kcal

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Freeze Time: 1 day day

Total Time: 1 day day 5 minutes minutes

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Equipment

• 1 Ninja Creami
• 1 Ninja Creami Pint Container
• 1 Small Blender

Add Food Grade Vegetable Glycerin To Make Leftover Ice Cream Scoopable Right Out of the Freezer

Per 16 ounce pint: *Add 1 Teaspoon to full fat/full sugar bases *Add 1.5 teaspoon to high protein bases *Add 2 teaspoons to low sugar/low fat lite bases. Freeze and process per the recipe. Take the leftovers out of the freezer and scoop without having to reprocess. ***This is a guideline and adjustments may be needed based on your recipe.

(Click here) This is the food grade vegetable glycerin that I experimented with.

Original, Breeze, Swirl, and Deluxe Ingredient Measurements

Use the multiplier below to adjust quantities based on the machine that you own. ***If you have the Original, Breeze, or Swirl machine, which use 16 ounce containers, choose the 1X option. ***If you have the Deluxe or XL machine, which use 24 ounce containers, choose the 1.5X option.

Ingredients

 

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Ice Cream Base

• ▢ 11.5 Ounces (326 g) Caramel Protein Shake
• ▢ 2 Tablespoons (2 Tablespoons) Sugar-Free Cheesecake Instant Pudding Mix
• ▢ 1 Tablespoon (1 Tablespoon) Sugar-Free Caramel Syrup

Mix-Ins

• ▢ 1 Cookie (1 Cookie) No-Bake Sugar Cookie Dough (Cut into small pieces)
• ▢ 2 (2) Sugar-Free Werther's Original (Broken up into small pieces)

Optional

• ▢ 1-2 Tablespoons (2 Tablespoons) Unsweetened Almond Milk

Instructions

Make the Ice Cream Mixture

• Pour the protein shake, pudding mix, and caramel syrup into a small blender and blend together until the pudding mix is completely combined with the liquids. Pour the mixture into the Ninja Creami pint container.
• Freeze on a level surface for 24 hours. Your freezer should be between 9 and -7 degrees Fahrenheit. To avoid getting a bump on the top of the frozen mixture, freeze with the lid off of the container.

Process the Ice Cream

• After 24 hours, remove the pint container from the freezer.
• Place the pint container into the outer bowl of the Ninja Creami and then process on "LITE ICE CREAM."
• If the ice cream is dry or crumbly looking, pour in a tablespoon or two of unsweetened almond milk and then respin. You may have to repeat this process a couple of times.
• Pour the no-bake sugar cookie pieces and Werther's Original pieces down the center of the ice cream and then process on mix-ins.
• Remove the pint from the machine and enjoy!

Notes

Do the Werther’s Original candies stay hard when mixed in with the ice cream?

They do! But, since they are broken up into small pieces before adding them in the mix-in process, they are not hard on your teeth. Instead, they provide a sweet, caramel flavor with a little extra crunch!

 

Do the sugar cookie pieces stay whole or break up during the mix-ins process?

The sugar cookie pieces do get broken up a little but during the mix-ins process since they are so soft. But, it’s a good thing because the sugar cookie dough gets mixed in with the extra ice cream so you get a little bit of the sugar cookie dough in every bite!!

Nutrition

Calories: 308kcal | Carbohydrates: 31.1g | Protein: 30.5g | Fat: 7.1g | Saturated Fat: 3.15g | Cholesterol: 22.5mg | Sodium: 982mg | Potassium: 181.6mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7.5g | Calcium: 650.8mg | Iron: 2.3mg

Nutrition information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. Optional ingredients are not included in the nutrition information.

Recipes that use allulose:

Allulose is a low calorie sweetener that your body doesn't fully digest, so it provides only 0.4 calories per gram instead of 4. That's why the calorie total doesn't match what you'd expect from the carb count. Calories from allulose are calculated based on metabolized carbohydrates. Allulose contributes fewer calories than standard carbohydrates.

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