Ninja SLUSHi
milkshakes
& frappés.
Make more of your Ninja SLUSHi: choose a liquid recipe, match its preset and learn what to change before your next batch.
Start here
A milkshake starts with the right recipe.
Yes, the original Ninja SLUSHi makes milkshakes and coffee frappés from a liquid mix, without added ice. Its Milkshake and Frappé presets give you two starting points. Use the setting specified by your recipe; coffee can appear in either kind of drink. See the original Ninja SLUSHi product details and our preset and coffee guide.
For your first batch, use a recipe written for your machine. Follow the ingredient quantities, dissolve the sugar and check the marked fill range. The original US Ninja SLUSHi has an 88 fl oz vessel but a 64 fl oz maximum liquid fill; those are different measurements. Other models have different capacities, so use your own vessel markings and manual.
Already made a batch that is thin, icy or foamy? Go straight to milkshake troubleshooting.
Know your ingredients
Read the label. Keep the proportions.
Milk is part of the sugar total
A hypothetical milk drink labelled 7 g sugar per 100 ml contributes 49 g sugar in a 700 ml portion. Count the milk and syrup before adding more.
Work through the label →Scale every ingredient
A half-size batch uses half of each ingredient. Topping up only with milk or coffee changes the recipe as well as its volume.
Scale your batch →Texture needs more than a number
Sugar calculations cannot predict dairy foam, aeration or creaminess. Keep your recipe and preset as a baseline, then compare one change at a time.
Check the texture →Choose your next drink
Familiar flavours. A SLUSHi starting point.
Coffee & frappés
Make coffee frappés in your Ninja SLUSHi. Compare Milkshake and Frappé presets, scale a caramel coffee recipe and check sugar inputs and serving time.
McDonald’s-style shakes
Make a McDonald’s-style chocolate shake in your Ninja SLUSHi. Choose a machine recipe, count syrup sugar and add whipped cream in the glass.
Dunkin-style frozen coffee
Make Dunkin-style frozen coffee in your Ninja SLUSHi. Choose a coffee or chocolate base, compare syrup labels and scale the recipe to your machine.
A recipe to start from
Caramel Espresso Frappe
Coffee, whole milk, caramel sauce and vanilla. Open the published recipe for its 1,890 ml batch, ingredient quantities and method; scale it to your machine’s working fill range.
Open the caramel coffee recipe →Chocolate first?
Start with the manufacturer’s mix
Ninja’s Easy Chocolate Milkshake gives a machine-specific starting formula. Our chocolate shake guide explains how to use it as a baseline and keep toppings separate from the batch.
Read the chocolate shake guide →FAQ
Milkshake questions
Ninja’s Easy Chocolate Milkshake starts with milk, cream, sugar and flavourings, rather than ice cream or added ice. Follow a SLUSHi-specific recipe instead of transferring a blender recipe unchanged.
Treat a substitution as a recipe change. Check its sugar label and use a recipe that accounts for the substitute. A matching sugar figure alone does not prove that two milks will have the same texture. Our frozen coffee guide shows how syrup swaps change the sugar total.
Ninja advises dispensing Milkshake and Frappé drinks within 30 minutes after the preset ends to help avoid foam. See Ninja’s guidance and the foam troubleshooting steps. This is a texture recommendation, not food-storage advice.
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