Oreo Milkshake (Ninja Creami, Milkshake Program)

A Creami milkshake starts with frozen ice cream, not a frozen shake, so this recipe freezes a plain vanilla base with half a cup of cream and three tablespoons of sugar: enough fat to turn glossy when thinned and enough sugar to keep the puck from setting rock hard. On shake day a third of a cup of cold milk and five broken Oreos go on top and the Milkshake program blends everything into a thick, spoonable shake. We tested it on the Ninja Creami Deluxe NC501 in a 24 oz XL tub with no re-spin needed. Each serving is an estimated 250 kcal, 4 g protein, 24 g carbs and 16 g fat.

Tested recipe

Oreo Milkshake

A thick, spoonable cookies and cream milkshake made by freezing a simple vanilla base and spinning it with cold milk and broken Oreo cookies.

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Prep

5 min

Freeze

24 h

Process

3 min

Total

24 h 8 min

Servings

4 per pint

16 oz pint24 oz XL tub

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup (180 g) whole milk, for the base
• 1/2 cup (120 g) heavy cream
• 3 tbsp (38 g) granulated sugar
• 1 tsp (4 g) vanilla extract
• 1/8 tsp fine salt
• 1/3 cup (80 g) cold whole milk, added on shake day
• 5 (57 g) Oreo cookies, broken into quarters

Equipment

• Ninja Creami NC501
• 24 oz Deluxe XL tub (16 oz pint on NC301 and NC351)

Method

1. Whisk the base milk, heavy cream, sugar, vanilla and salt in a jug until the sugar dissolves.
2. Pour the base into the tub or pint; it fills only part of the container, which is correct for a milkshake.
3. Lid the container and freeze it for 24 hours on a level surface.
4. Pour the cold milk over the frozen base.
5. Add the broken cookies on top of the milk.
6. Lock the tub into the outer bowl, fit it to the machine and press Milkshake.
7. Stir once with a long spoon and pour into glasses.

Nutrition per serving (estimated)

Calories

250 kcal

Protein

4 g

Carbs

24 g

Fat

16 g

Program: Milkshake · Tested on NC501 · By Mike Lala

Tips

• Freeze the base on a level shelf even though it does not fill the container. A sloped puck tilted under the paddle on our first try and the shake was thin on one side and lumpy on the other.
• Do not add the milk and cookies before freezing. Cookies frozen into the block turned to grey dust, and milk frozen in made the puck too soft to blend evenly.
• The Milkshake program does not need a re-spin. If the result is too thick to pour, add 1 tbsp of milk and run Milkshake again; the usual re-spin rule for scooped bases does not apply, as our programs guide explains.
• Measure the milk cold from the fridge. Room temperature milk melted the edges of the puck and the shake came out thin.
• Break the cookies by hand into quarters, not crumbs. Pre-crushed cookies dissolved into the shake; quarters left visible flecks and a few crunchy pieces.

Variations

• Mint Oreo: add 1/4 tsp of peppermint extract to the cold milk and use mint-filled cookies.
• Chocolate Oreo: freeze our classic chocolate ice cream base at the same reduced volume and use it in place of the vanilla base.
• Peanut butter Oreo: add 1 tbsp (16 g) of smooth peanut butter to the top of the puck with the milk, a flavor that overlaps with our peanut butter protein ice cream.

Storage and refreeze

A finished milkshake does not refreeze well; the cookies go soggy and the thinned base freezes into an icy block. Pour out what you will drink and refrigerate the rest for up to 24 hours, then stir. The better approach is to keep frozen vanilla pucks ready: freeze two or three pints of base at once, lidded and level at 0 F, and they hold for a month. On shake day take one out, add the milk and cookies and run Milkshake. If you have a frozen puck you want to turn into ice cream instead, run the Ice Cream program without the added milk; the NC501 took the same vanilla base to scoopable in one 182 second cycle in our vanilla test.

The model and pints we used

We made this in the 24 oz XL tubs supplied with the NC501; they also fit the NC601 and the spare 2-pack is on the Deluxe XL tubs page. Owners of the NC301 and NC351 should use the pint quantities in the originals from the pints page; the Milkshake program is on every current model. The NC501 is the loudest machine we tested at 86 dB at 1 m, and the Milkshake cycle is noticeably shorter than its Ice Cream cycle. The base ratios behind the vanilla puck are in the base ratios cheat sheet, and more shakes are in the milkshakes hub.

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