Fair warning: these are not diet desserts, so please don't blame me if your waistband is a little tighter after indulging in these delights.
MILKSHAKES, Restaurant Style
1 cup milk
4 scoops ice cream
2 tbsp syrup, same flavor as ice cream, if available
(if vanilla shake, use 1 tsp vanilla extract)
Put the milk in the blender.
Add the ice cream and whirl at low speed. You will likely have to stop the blender and free up the ice cream a couple of times. Pour into a large glass and serve with a long handled spoon.Don't use whipping cream; the shakes won't taste right. You can put whipped cream on top, if you like, but these milkshakes stand alone just fine.
Given the supervision of the making of these delights, you know they were good.
Of course, having to be different, I required a...
ROOT BEER FLOAT
Root Beer
3 scoops vanilla ice cream.
Pour 1/2 glass of root beer. Stir 10 times to reduce the carbonation. Gently add the 3 scoops of ice cream. Fill the glass with root beer, pouring down the side to avoid the ice cream, so it doesn't fizz over.
Confession: I had mine made with diet root beer. I know it's stooopid to count those extra 100 calories, but it was that much less calorie counting I had to do the next day!
Next time, I'll bring you a much loved treat from this not hostile restaurant. It's very vividly colored, and astonishingly cold!
21 comments:
Oh - I love root beer floats! I haven't had one in forever! and I just got the scale stablized at down 10 :( g
MMMM, they both look good! But I'm with you on the rb float!! Nothing better!! (Unless the shake also has malt powder in it!)
Just stay away from the Mango smoothies.
Slobbers,
Mango
Those both look good on a hot day. I think I'd go with the float, too.
Love 'em both. Haven't had either in a very long time.
Funny you should post this as I've been thinkng about a rootbeer float for about a week and discovered yesterday that we have both requirements - perhaps tonight if I want something sweet.
Perfect for hot summer days like today :)
LOL... that would be Friendly's, although it's funny that we never go there. They have a reputation near us for being extremely SLOW with service so unless you've got an afternoon to kill, you go somewhere else. HA HA
Ohh and now I want a Root Beer Float!
I. LOVE. Milkshakes.
Oh I love root beer floats!! I always used to have one at Woolworths whenever I went shopping. Gosh I'm old.
If it's Friendly's, I used to love that place! We would go there all the time when we lived in Connecticut (I was a kid). Yummmm!
Let's get together when the kids are gone and console one another with these things! :)
now thats a two-fer....I'll take one of each please! Now how can you not like milk shakes...and I re introduced root beer floats at the school I work at, I was amazed how many of the girls had never had one.....we fixed that!!!
Oh man, now I am totally craving a rootbeer float AND a milkshake. Both look delcious.
I see Thor is watching on to make sure he misses nothing. I have no idea what root beer is, don't think it exists in our part of the world! Diane
I love the supervisor! We have the same sort of "help" - especially when there's the potential of dropped cheese anywhere. . .
Brothers learning and Thor keeping the peace - just what is needed when your girls know how to make a decent milkshake. Hey Cass, my fav is strawbery!
Yum, root beer floats are one of my all time favorites.
p.s., don't have populars thank goodness cause we have enough invasive species as is!
I could get some real chores done around my house if I wave these around!
YUMMY! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Rootbeer floats!!
ah yummie, shakes! must get a blender !! love smoothies as well!
Root beer... hm, can you describe the taste?
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