Use Magic Shell Instead of Chocolate Chips as a Ninja Creami Mix-In

If you’ve been adding chocolate chips to your Ninja Creami ice cream as a mix-in and ending up with little frozen rocks in your ice cream, there’s a better way. Magic Shell is the easiest way to get little chocolate bits throughout your ice cream…without hurting your teeth. Here’s why it works so much better and how to use it.

Why are chocolate chips a problem in Ninja Creami ice cream?

Chocolate chips freeze hard. Really hard. When you add them to the ice cream, they turn into hard little solid chunks that are really hard to chew. In frozen ice cream they’re just… rocks.

Why Magic Shell Works Better

Magic Shell is a chocolate topping that sets quickly when it hits something cold. It’s designed to go on frozen things, which means it’s formulated to stay thin and snappable even when frozen rather than turning into a solid, dense chunk. When you use it as a Ninja Creami mix-in, it creates thin pieces of chocolate that are easy to bite through instead of hard chips that feel like they might break your teeth.

It also mixes in more evenly than chips do. Chips stay as distinct lumps. Magic Shell breaks up into thinner, more distributed pieces throughout the ice cream, so you get chocolate flavor in more bites instead of having it concentrated in a few spots.

A small drizzle goes a long way. You don’t need much to get great chocolate flavor throughout the ice cream.

To use magic shell as a mix-in, process the ice cream as you normally would. Then drizzle the magic shell on the top of the ice cream or down the hole (if there is one). Then wait… Don’t process right away. Give it a minute for the magic shell to harden. Then put the container back in the machine and process on mix-ins. If you don’t wait, the magic shell will still be soft and liquidy and it will just fully mix in with the ice cream base instead of adding chocolate flakes.

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Bottom line: Skip the chocolate chips. They freeze into rocks and nobody wants that. Magic Shell gives you the chocolate mix-in experience you actually want, thin pieces that are easy to bite through, distributed evenly throughout the pint, with great flavor. Simple swap, way better results.