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The Ninja Creami Will Change How You Think About Frozen Desserts

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Dinner’s done, the kitchen is clean, and you want something cold and a little bit special without committing to an actual dessert project. It’s a surprisingly hard craving to satisfy. Ice cream from the freezer feels like settling. Making something from scratch feels like too much. The Ninja Creami lives in that middle ground. You freeze a base in the machine’s pint container overnight, lock it in the next day, press a button, and it spins into a delicious frozen sweet treat.
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strawberry chiffon shortcake, perfected

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In 2007, when this website was still in its infancy, I shared a recipe for a layered strawberry chiffon shortcake. I’d never made a chiffon cake before, but I brought it to a friend’s rooftop birthday BBQ, correctly assuming that no one would be unhappy with a towering, featherweight cake sandwiched with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, however inexpertly made.

While I could appreciate a chiffon cake back then, I wasn’t a superfan. Chiffon cakes seemed a little stiff and lean. Plus, they’re fussy: there’s sifting; cake flour instead of all-purpose flour; superfine sugar instead of regular granulated; an uneven number of egg whites and egg yolks; cream of tartar; and a minimum of three bowls just for the cake layers. Oh, and chiffon cakes have a tendency to dip in the center as they cool. Gosh, where do we sign up!?

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