CuisineIce cream machine recipes for the Ninja CREAMi, Scoop & Swirl, Cuisinart, KitchenAid bowl and Breville Smart ScoopBrown butter pecan ice cream, peach soft serve that pipes into a cone, a 32-gram protein pint and a honey custard churned the same evening, each made on the machine it was written for.Video frame: @katherinesabbath on TikTokHome ice cream machines work in three different ways. The Ninja CREAMi shaves a pint that has been frozen solid for a day, and the Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl does the same and then pipes the result as soft serve through a handle on the front. Cuisinart's machines and KitchenAid's stand-mixer bowl churn a chilled liquid base in a bowl that has spent a day in the freezer. The Breville Smart Scoop has its own freezer built in and churns a chilled custard in about 50 minutes. A recipe written for a pint machine does not work in a churning one, so each machine has its own recipes here, made with pecans, peaches, spring strawberries and Lowcountry honey, with more from cooks on TikTok in the recipe guide. Six home machines make ice cream three ways MachinePriceMethodBatchProgramsExtra pints Ninja CREAMi 7-in-1 (NC351)$229.99Shaves a base frozen for 24 hours16 oz pint, two included72-pack $19.99, 4-pack $29.99 Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl (NC701)$349.99Shaves a base frozen for 24 hours, then dispenses it as soft serve16 oz pint with a nozzle, two included13 one-touch programs2-pack $34.99, 4-pack $69.99 Cuisinart Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker (ICE-21P1)$69.95Churns a chilled base in a bowl frozen for 16 to 24 hours1½ qtNoneExtra freezer bowl, for a second batch Cuisinart Pure Indulgence (ICE-30BCP1)$99.95Churns a chilled base in a bowl frozen for about 24 hours2 qtNoneExtra freezer bowl, for a second batch KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment (KSMICM)$119.99A freezer bowl and dasher for a KitchenAid stand mixer, run on StirUp to 2 qtThe mixer's Stir speedNone Breville Smart Scoop (BCI600XL)$599.95Built-in compressor freezes and churns a liquid baseAbout 1 quart in a 1.1 qt bowl12 hardness settings, plus a manual timerNone needed Prices as listed on sharkninja.com, cuisinart.com, kitchenaid.com and breville.com on November 12, 2026. The CREAMi suits a household that plans a day ahead and likes to keep several flavors in the freezer, ready to spin in a few minutes, and it is the machine for a high-protein pint. The Scoop & Swirl suits a house with children and a cone habit. A Cuisinart, or the KitchenAid bowl in a kitchen that already has the mixer, churns a quart and a half to two quarts of custard for well under the price of either Ninja, once the bowl has spent a day in the freezer. The Breville Smart Scoop is the premium choice: nothing to freeze ahead, a custard into the bowl after dinner, and ice cream at the hardness chosen on the dial. Ninja CREAMi Ninja CREAMi 7-in-1, model NC351.Photo: SharkNinja The CREAMi is the classic pint machine, and the current model is the NC351, sold as the Ninja CREAMi 7-in-1 Ice Cream Maker for $229.99. A base goes into a 16-ounce pint, freezes solid for 24 hours, and a blade called the Creamerizer paddle spins down through the frozen block in a few minutes. The seven programs are Ice Cream, Lite Ice Cream, Sorbet, Gelato, Milkshake, Smoothie Bowl and Mix-In, and RE-SPIN runs the paddle again when a pint comes out dry. Two pints come in the box. Extra pints cost $19.99 for two or $29.99 for four, and those fit the NC300 and NC350 series machines. Ninja's CREAMi manual asks for every pint to freeze flat on a level shelf for at least 24 hours, lid on. A pint frozen at an angle must not be processed. A pint that comes out crumbly or powdery has usually been frozen very cold, and one RE-SPIN fixes it. Brown Butter Pecan Ice Cream Ninja's own brown butter pecan is a cooked custard sweetened with dark brown sugar, with pecans toasted in brown butter folded in on the Mix-In program. Ninja finishes it with a pinch of salt and more toasted pecans, and Savannah Salted Roasted Pecans from Capital Bee Company in Savannah, $12 a bag, are already toasted and salted for the top. Ingredients ⅔ cup chopped pecans 1 teaspoon butter 1 cup whole milk ½ cup heavy cream ½ cup dark brown sugar 1 teaspoon light corn syrup 3 egg yolks Method Toast the pecans in a small skillet over medium-high heat, tossing now and then, for about 5 minutes. Add the butter and keep tossing until it turns brown and smells of caramel. Set the pecans aside. Whisk the milk, cream, brown sugar, corn syrup and egg yolks together in a small saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Cook over medium heat, stirring all the time, until an instant-read thermometer shows 165°F to 175°F. Strain the custard into an empty CREAMi pint and cool the pint in an ice bath. Put the lid on and freeze for 24 hours. Lock the pint into the outer bowl and run the ICE CREAM program. Dig a hole about 1½ inches wide down to the bottom of the pint with a spoon. Spoon the pecans and brown butter into the hole and run MIX-IN. Serve straight away with extra pecans and a pinch of salt on top. For the cleanest mix-in: skip RE-SPIN before the pecans go in. Ninja's manual says not to RE-SPIN before using the Mix-In program. More CREAMi pints from cooks on TikTok, each with the cook's video, are in the recipe guide: gingerbread ice cream, peppermint hot chocolate ice cream, Santa's cookie milk ice cream and toasted marshmallow ice cream. Protein pints on the CREAMi A CREAMi pint can start from milk and a scoop of protein powder, frozen and spun after dinner. The machine has a program for it: Ninja's manual describes Lite Ice Cream as the setting for bases low in sugar or fat, or sweetened with a sugar substitute, and the Scoop & Swirl adds a second one called CreamiFit. The recipes here run RE-SPIN once or twice, with a tablespoon of milk, until the pint is smooth. One posted by @fitnessproductfinder, a banana pudding pint on fat-free milk, comes to 276 calories and 23 grams of protein for the whole pint by its creator's count. The framework @rileyrehl uses is 240 ml of milk or water and one scoop of protein powder, with about 100 grams of fruit or another flavoring, topped up with milk to the fill line, frozen overnight and spun on Lite Ice Cream. Protein Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Posted to TikTok by @oliviaadriance. A dairy-free pint of light coconut milk, vanilla protein powder, powdered peanut butter, maple syrup and salt, frozen overnight, spun on Ice Cream and re-spun twice with a tablespoon of nut milk, then finished with halved chocolate peanut butter cups on Mix-In. Its creator puts it at 32 grams of protein. In the video, the powdered peanut butter brings the flavor while keeping the pint light, and powders make a CREAMi pint thick. Full recipe: Protein Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl, model NC701.Photo: SharkNinja The soft serve machine is a separate product. Ninja launched it as the Ninja Swirl by CREAMi, and its own store now sells it as the Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine, model NC701, for $349.99. It freezes and shaves a pint the same way as the CREAMi, then the pint goes back onto the machine upside down under a dispense lid, and a pull on the handle pipes soft serve into a cone. Ninja lists 13 one-touch programs, among them Ice Cream, Lite Ice Cream, Sorbet, Gelato, Milkshake and Mix-In from the CREAMi, plus Soft Serve Ice Cream, Soft Serve Lite Ice Cream, Fruit Whip, Frozen Custard, Frozen Yogurt and CreamiFit. Its pints are its own, each with a nozzle and a twisting base, and Ninja sells them apart from the CREAMi's plain pints. Extra Scoop & Swirl pints cost $34.99 for two or $69.99 for four on the same page. Peaches and Cream Soft Serve Ninja's peaches and cream soft serve takes four ingredients and a blender. It calls for frozen peach slices, so ripe summer peaches, sliced and frozen, make it in any month. Ingredients 1 cup frozen peach slices ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup whole milk ½ cup heavy cream Method Blend everything until smooth. Check that the pint's base is twisted closed, then pour the mixture into an empty Swirl pint up to the MAX FILL line. Put the storage lid on and freeze for 24 hours. Lock the pint into the outer bowl with the Creamerizer paddle and raise the platform. Select SOFT SERVE, then ICE CREAM. When the program ends, take the pint out of the bowl, fit the dispense lid and set the pint into the machine, lining up the blue tabs. Twist the white base to OPEN and pull the handle to fill a cone or bowl. Serve straight away. For a pint that holds the base: close it before pouring. The Swirl pint has a nozzle in the bottom, and Ninja's recipe opens with the instruction to make sure it is closed before the base goes in. Fresh Strawberry Soft Serve Ninja's fresh strawberry soft serve uses fresh berries, and on this coast they come in spring. Ambrose Family Farm on Wadmalaw Island grows strawberries each spring, with pick-your-own at the farm stand at 2349 Black Pond Lane and the farm's produce at the family's Stono Market at 842 Main Road on Johns Island. Ingredients 1 cup strawberries, stems removed ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup whole milk ½ cup heavy cream Method Blend everything until smooth. Pour into an empty Swirl pint, base closed, up to the MAX FILL line. Put the storage lid on and freeze for 24 hours. Lock the pint into the outer bowl with the paddle and raise the platform. Select SOFT SERVE, then ICE CREAM. Fit the dispense lid, set the pint into the machine, twist the base to OPEN and pull the handle. For a pint that pipes: run RE-SPIN until it turns smooth, before the dispense lid goes on. A freezer set very cold leaves the strawberry base dry and broken after the first program, and a crumbly pint will not pipe. Two more Scoop & Swirl recipes from TikTok are in the recipe guide: one-ingredient eggnog soft serve, which is a quart of store-bought eggnog and nothing else, and black sesame soft serve, piped charcoal gray into a cone. Cuisinart Cuisinart sells two freezer-bowl machines. The Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker, model ICE-21P1, is $69.95 and makes 1½ quarts in under 20 minutes. The Pure Indulgence, model ICE-30BCP1, is $99.95 and makes 2 quarts in about 25. Both bowls freeze first, in a freezer at 0°F: Cuisinart's manuals give 16 to 24 hours for the smaller bowl and 24 for the larger. The base goes in with the machine already running, and mix-ins go in through the spout about five minutes before the end. Cuisinart also makes compressor machines, the ICE-100 and the Freeze Ease ICE-150, both $379.95. Brown Butter Ice Cream Posted to TikTok by @lucymakes_. A custard made with milk and cream reduced for up to half an hour, milk powder toasted golden in a dry pan and the browned solids of ten tablespoons of salted butter, chilled for at least four hours and churned in a Cuisinart. It was thick after 22 minutes of churning and makes two pints. Full recipe: Brown Butter Ice Cream KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment KitchenAid's Ice Cream Maker Attachment, model KSMICM, is $119.99: a 2-quart freezer bowl and a dasher that fit most KitchenAid tilt-head and bowl-lift stand mixers. The bowl freezes for 16 to 24 hours at the freezer's coldest setting, by KitchenAid's quick start guide and product page. The mixer goes to Stir before the base is poured in, mix-ins go in after 12 to 15 minutes, and the ice cream is done in 20 to 30 minutes, when the dasher starts to slip and click. It comes out soft; two to four hours in a shallow container firms it. Any churned recipe here suits the bowl, the brown butter custard above included. The stand mixer on its own makes no-churn tiramisu ice cream: cream whipped to stiff peaks, folded with condensed milk and layered with espresso-soaked vanilla wafers in a loaf pan. Breville Smart Scoop Breville Smart Scoop, model BCI600.Photo: Breville Breville's ice cream maker is the Smart Scoop, model BCI600XL in the United States, $599.95 on Breville's own store. It has a compressor inside, so nothing goes into the freezer first: a chilled base goes into the 1.1-quart bowl and the machine freezes and churns it. Twelve hardness settings run from sorbet through frozen yogurt and gelato to ice cream, and the machine stops when the mixture reaches the hardness chosen. A manual timer runs in five-minute steps up to 180 minutes. Pre-Cool chills the machine in 5 to 10 minutes, Keep Cool holds finished ice cream for up to three hours, and a beep tells the cook when to add mix-ins through a flap in the lid. Breville's Smart Scoop manual gives about 50 minutes for a quart of ice cream and a limit of 3½ cups of liquid per batch. The machine must stand upright for 12 hours after delivery before its first use, because of the compressor. Honey Ice Cream Breville's own honey ice cream, from the recipe pages of the manual, is a custard sweetened with honey and nothing else, so the honey is the flavor. Edisto Gold Honey is a local honey sold in a 22-ounce jar for $23 at Essentially Charleston in Mount Pleasant. Savannah Bee Company sells Wildflower Honey for $8. Ingredients 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 6 egg yolks ½ cup good honey Method Heat the cream and milk in a medium heavy-based saucepan until they just start to simmer. Beat the egg yolks and honey in a bowl until pale and thick. Whisk half the hot cream slowly into the yolks, then pour everything back into the saucepan. Stir over low heat with a wooden spoon until the custard coats the back of the spoon and a finger drawn across it leaves a clear line. Pour into a heatproof bowl, cool to room temperature, cover and refrigerate. Breville suggests making a cooked base the day before, or chilling it for at least 4 hours. Fit the paddle into the bowl, run PRE-COOL, pour in the cold custard and set the dial to ICE CREAM. Press START. Spoon into an airtight container. It keeps up to a week in the freezer, and 5 to 10 minutes on the counter softens it for scooping. For ice cream that freezes on time: pour in a cold custard. The manual lists a base that was too warm as the reason ice cream is not frozen in the time set. A night in the refrigerator settles it. Butterfinger Ice Cream Posted to TikTok by @thesouthernmethod. A packet of Williams Sonoma ice cream starter whisked into a cup and a half each of half-and-half and cream, set to Ice Cream on the dial, with three-quarters of a cup of chopped Butterfinger dropped in when the machine calls for mix-ins. One batch makes a quart. Full recipe: Butterfinger Ice Cream Buy these for the recipes above ItemForPriceSeller Ninja CREAMi 7-in-1 (NC351)Pecan, protein peanut butter cup$229.99SharkNinja CREAMi pints, 4-packKeeping several flavors frozen$29.99SharkNinja Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl (NC701)Peaches and cream, strawberry, eggnog and black sesame soft serve$349.99SharkNinja Scoop & Swirl pints, 4-packKeeping several soft serve flavors frozen$69.99SharkNinja Cuisinart Pure Indulgence (ICE-30BCP1)Brown butter$99.95Cuisinart KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment (KSMICM)Any churned recipe, on a KitchenAid mixer$119.99KitchenAid Breville Smart Scoop (BCI600XL)Honey, Butterfinger$599.95Breville Savannah Salted Roasted PecansTopping the brown butter pecan$12Capital Bee Company, Savannah Edisto Gold Honey, 22 ozHoney ice cream$23Essentially Charleston, Mount Pleasant Wildflower HoneyHoney ice cream$8Savannah Bee Company, Savannah Spring strawberriesStrawberry soft serveIn season, springAmbrose Family Farm, Wadmalaw Island Holiday desserts for guests, from a Black Forest cheesecake to Santa's cookie milk ice cream, are in Christmas and Thanksgiving desserts for guests. More local honey, pecans and sweets are in the Lowcountry Magazine store.