Whip up this delicious Chocolate Frozen Yogurt from scratch any night of the week! Simply prep your base, freeze overnight, process, and enjoy!
Chocolate Frozen Yogurt
Making delicious frozen yogurt from scratch could not be any easier to make using the Ninja™ CREAMi® and Stonyfield Organic Yogurt! Today I am sharing this amazing chocolate froyo that my daughter and husband loved! Have fun playing around with different flavors, I’ve also tested vanilla chocolate chips froyo and an amazing blueberry version I’ll be sharing soon.
I partnered with Stonyfield Organic and Ninja to create this healthier frozen treat. Since there is no heavy cream in this recipe, I used their Whole Milk Smooth & Creamy Plain Yogurt to give it more of a creamy consistency. Since I am watching my sugar intake, I used monk fruit sweetener, but you can of course use cane sugar or any sweetener you like, if you prefer.
About the Ninja CREAMi
- The Ninja™ CREAMi® transforms frozen solid bases into ice cream, sorbets, milkshakes, and more at the touch of a button to make an incredibly smooth, creamy texture in minutes.
- The one-touch programs allow for the perfect combination of speed, pressure, and time to completely shave through your frozen pint. Choose between Ice Cream, Sorbet, Gelato, Milkshake, Smoothie Bowl, Lite Ice Cream, and Mix-in.
- Just three easy steps. Simply prep your base, freeze overnight, process, and enjoy!
- Want more recipe ideas? You can find tons of inspiration on Ninja’s website.
Chocolate Frozen Yogurt
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Plain Whole Milk Stonyfield Organic yogurt
- 3 tablespoons Monk fruit sweetener with erythritol, or sugar, or sweetener of choice
- 2 1/2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon raw agave
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk of choice, I used 2%
- pinch salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl whisk the yogurt, monk fruit sweetener, cocoa powder, agave and vanilla extract until dissolved.
- Whisk in the milk to combine.
- Pour into an empty Creami pint. Place storage lid on pint and freeze flat (make sure it’s not on an angle) for 24 hours.
- Remove pint from freezer and remove the lid.
- Assemble bowl into machine as referred to in the manual and select ICE CREAM.
- When processing is complete, open and if it looks crumbly, add it back to the machine and press the re-spin button and process a little more.
- Remove ice cream from pint and serve right away.
- Top with your favorite ice cream toppings! I love it drizzled with a little chocolate syrup, whipped cream and sprinkles.
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If I tripled this recipe, do you think it would work for a Cuisinart ice cream maker? The churner type… I was so excited to see this but I don’t have a ninja creami. I’d assume I cpuld just use a hand mixer to blend all ingredients together like the normal ice cream/ frozen yogurt recipes, but wondered if Gina or anyone else had thoughts or experience in this?
This is the easiest recipe! I add two tablespoons of milk when I respin and it gets so creamy, like soft serve.
Perfect!
I’ve got my Creami on the way. Can’t wait to try it. How would I go about adding peanut butter swirls to this?
You can add some at the end when you add the mixins
This was amazing! Couldn’t even tell it was “healthier” and the chocolate felt indulgent. Please come out with more Creami recipes – vanilla would be great!
Best frozen yogurt recipe yet!! I can’t wait to try your others! Thank you!!
Hate cream cheese. Is there a substitute for it?
Wonder also if we could get a recipe for “cream ices'” like Ralphs ices but of course, using fruit and monk fruit sweetner???? That would be the best!!
Could I sub almond milk for the 2% milk? I just bought the Ninja Creami… so excited. On WW and both husband and I lost combined 40 lbs so looking forward to incorporating the ice cream into our recipes. Your recipes have been a hit in our home and I share them with my group as well.
I’ve never purchased monk fruit sweetener. Which brand do you use?
Lankanto.
I have not broke mine out of the box yet? thoughts on using greek yogurt?
We used Greek yogurt with maple syrup for the sweetener. Even after a re-spin, the consistency was icy, flakey. Still tasted good, but I can’t really rate the recipe since I didn’t use the same ingredients. Did anyone else have luck using Greek yogurt?
There is a Greek yogurt recipe on ST. It is also very good.
Super excited for a creami recipe! Please keep them coming! I definitely get an icy/less creamy ice cream when I use low fat/non fat products. I’m going to try with a higher fat yogurts I love to eat the entire pint so I’d love to hack the system and figure out a way to have creamy and a whipped type product but with low fat/low cal ingredients!!! Thank you!!
I would love to see recipes of non-dairy “milky” frozen dessert options in the ninja!
You got it!
Can you use something in place of the raw agave? Add more Monk Fruit??
maple or honey
Can you use greek nonfat yogurt instead? Lactose intolerant.
The Creami is both a blessing and a curse. I’ve made screams at least 2x week since I received it 5 months ago. It’s a dream machine! Please keep the Creami recipes coming (especially the low-no sugar/ low-dairy ones!)!!
You got it!
Can you make this without using an ice cream maker? Would it turn out okay if I just mixed it and put it in Tupperware?
Good Question.
The Nonja Creami recipes always come out super hard before being put in the machine. I haven’t tried this specific recipe, but with all the many recipes that I have tried, that’s how it is. So I would say no.
So if it makes a pint, but you can’t consume it all….do you put leftover back in freezer and reprocess when ready to eat, or? I can’t ever eat more than maybe 1/3 of a pint in one sitting, they usually give ne 4 servings.
yes, that is correct. The pints come with covers : )
The instructions that come with the creami specifically state that if you refreeze to make sure that the top of your product is smoothed and not lopsided. Hope this makes sense! My daughter loves to eat like one side of the pint straight down so I always make sure to go in and redistribute everything and make it nice and smooth again. I’m not sure what would happen if you don’t, but I don’t want to find out!
Yeah!!! Hope you do alot more for the Creami! Any idea on the point spread for WW? What would happen if used nonfat yogurt also if one is lactose intolerant?
I link to ww in the recipe card for the points, see the orange button.
Do you think you could make this in an ice cream maker?
Thank you
Can we use lower fat yogurt?
I didn’t test it because I didn’t want an icy texture, I wanted it to be rich.
Will this work with lower or non fat yogurt and milk for lower points?
I’m sure it will, but I don’t think it will taste as good.
I used non fat plain yogurt and 2% milk since it was what I had. I’m sure it wasn’t as great of a texture as Gina’s, but I really enjoyed it and I would definitely make it that way again. I will try with full fat yogurt at some point just for fun though when I can spare the extra points 🙂
Great recipe. Would love more recipes for the Creami
I love that machine
Do you think you could use almond milk?
sure
Buying ingredients stat! I’ve been waiting patiently for this! Also big bonus, low weight watchers personal points for me! Very interested to see how this turns out. Will report back!
enjoy!!
Enjoyed this treat today. Followed recipe as shown. Excellent! Tasty and light! More recipes and ideas for the Creami please! Would love to learn how to create the fruit versions as well.
Great!!
I am SO excited that you’re posting recipes for the Creami! It’s been my new obsession for a few months and I really look forward to trying your creations since you’re my favorite source of recipes. 🙂
Great!!
I don’t have the ninja, but do you think this would work by putting the base in a vita mix instead?
I don’t have one, so hard to say but if it makes ice cream, I am sure. Report back!
My question, exactly!
I think so. Reviews on amazon say some compare this method/Ninja to their Vitamix. I am going to try too, since that is a large appliance I don’t see myself using a lot. Got a blender, will try recipe. 😉
let me know how it works out!
I considered buying a creami but my kitchen is so small. So I put this together today and will blend tomorrow. I feel the results will be similar. I’ve done frozen banana ice cream in the vitamix and it works out well.
let me know how it works out!
How did the Vitamix work?
I forgot to take a picture, but it worked pretty well. Gina’s recipe was SUPER chocolatey so I threw in some frozen cherries at the end. one thing I’d suggest is maybe doing smaller portions instead of freezing in one big brick. I used a rectangular tupperwear type of bowl. So when I tossed it in the vitamix it couldn’t reach the blade well. It was too hard to break, so I microwaved it then blended. But if you did small little chunks either in an ice tray or used a few smaller containers it may work better.