Will It Creami? Wendy's Chocolate Frosty

As I mentioned earlier on the BrandEating Patreon, I received a Ninja Swirl Creami ice cream maker to experiment with courtesy of SharkNinja. I'm going to use it to see how and if various fast-food desserts could be made into ice cream or soft serve. I decided to start off with something easy: Turning Wendy's Chocolate Frosty into soft serve. It's almost soft serve already, so I figured, why not? I'm calling the segment, "Will it Creami?" ("Will it Swirl Creami" just doesn't sound right)

The Process

 I purchased a large Wendy's Frosty for $3.59 and let it melt slightly to reduce its volume. I then poured it into the Creami's supplied pint container and placed it into the freezer for a little over a day. After it was good and frozen, I ran it through the processing section of the Cremi (it took four minutes), which finely shaves and blends the frozen Frosty into a soft serve consistency (it's like the reverse of your typical ice cream maker, where you churn and freeze the ice cream at the same time).

Once it was churned, I attached the container to the soft serve dispensing section of the Creami. There, it was forced/pressed the Frosty soft serve through a nozzle to achieve that signature swirled look. If you don't want/need to have that swirled soft serve appearance, you can skip this step and just spoon the soft serve out of the container.

How it turned out

The Wendy's Frosty Soft Serve was pretty good. Obviously, it had the same mild chocolate and hint of vanilla flavor of a regular Frosty, but it also had the firmer, smoother, less melty texture of soft serve (my dispensing skills need improvement, however). It was a little too firm, though, and I wonder if that was due to the relatively low fat content of a Frosty (fat/cream makes ice cream softer) or if I should have given the soft serve another blend (there's a "re-spin" function on the machine). Still, the firmness wasn't outside the range of other soft serves that I've eaten.