On Frosties, McFlurries, Blizzards and more . . .

I like ice cream drinks so here I have put up the "secret recipes" (not so secret any more!) with my take and notes on each one. Mix and Match, experiment, the texture is still the same. Enjoy your treat!



Wendy’s Frosty

Two different recipes here – you can adjust accordingly – add more milk, add less Quick – experiment!
You can even use a different flavor of ice cream and eliminate the Quick.
You would still have the same texture.

One serving:
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of Nestle’s Quick
3 cups of vanilla ice cream

Two servings:
¾ cup of milk
¼ cup of Nestle’s Quick
4 cups of vanilla ice cream

Let the ice cream soften. Add milk and Quick. Mix.

Variations:

Use a different flavor ice cream, you may have to eliminate the Chocolate Quick.
Use Strawberry Quick.
Instead of Quick – use Carnation Instant Breakfast.
Add brewed coffee (liquid).
Add to coffee a teaspoon of cocoa for a mocha shake.
Add more milk if you want a thinner product.
Use low cal ice cream and skim milk for less calories.

The McDonald’s McFlurry is basically the same idea only with a bit of crunch.

Basic recipe:

2 cups of vanilla ice cream
¼ cup of milk

Chill a bowl and a 16 oz glass in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Remove from the freezer – add the crushed crunchy ingredients or the frozen crushed candy to the bowl first.
Crush by putting in a bag or between wax paper and roll over with a rolling pin to get chunky shards. Don’t overdo it and make them too small.
Add the ice cream and milk then mix.

Put in the chilled glass and eat with a spoon.

Ingredients you can add (more or less as you desire):

1 chilled and crushed Butterfingers bar.
2 chilled and crushed Reese’s Peanut Butter cups
M&Ms – 1 mega tube of M&M minis or ¼ cup.
Reese’s Pieces – ¼ cup
Oreo (or any other type of cookie) 3 cookies (remember Oreo’s come in different flavors!)

Swamp Sludge McFlurry: chunks of chocolate fudge brownies and moss green M&Ms (you can custom order this color)

In the UK they use York Peppermint Patties (2 per McFlurry), or Rolo Candy (unspecified but add as many or as few as you desire)

Mint McFlurry served around St. Pat’s Day: mint extract ¼ to ½ teaspoon, a few drops of green food coloring and maybe you can add 2 Oreo cookies crushed.

Variation:
Use a different flavor ice cream rather than vanilla.
Use a light ice cream and skim milk.

Dairy Queen Blizzard

1 candy bar frozen and crushed (as previously described)
2 ½ cups of vanilla ice cream
1/4 cup of milk
Hot fudge topping

16 oz glass

Blend in blender all ingredients till mixed.
Use a flexible spatula to remove all from the blender.
Don’t over mix or it will thin out.
Put the Hot Fudge topping on the top of the mix in the glass. (YES!!!)

You can also layer the hot fudge too creating a parfait. (YUM!)

Blizzards can be made with Oreo’s (two cookies), Heath Bars (or Skor), Reese’s Peanutbutter Cups, Soft Chocolate Chip cookies.
Add mint extract and green food coloring with the Oreo’s.

Arby’s Jamocha Shake (my all time favorite but no more Arby’s around here!)

Makes 2 – 16 ounce drinks! (Always nice to share with a friend!)

1 cup of cold coffee
1 cup of low fat milk
3 tablespoons of granulated (white) sugar
a dash of salt
3 cups of vanilla ice cream
3 tablespoons of chocolate syrup

Combine the coffee, milk, sugar, and salt.
Add the ice cream and chocolate syrup.
Blend and pour.

Jack in the Box Oreo Cookie Shake

3 cups of vanilla ice cream
1 1/2 cups of milk
6 Oreo cookies crushed

Put ice cream and milk into a blender and mix thoroughly.
Crush the cookies into chunks and add to the blended ingredients.

Notes:
You can use any flavor of Oreo cookies or Double Stuf Oreos for this shake.
You can also use chocolate ice cream or mint chocolate chip instead of vanilla.


Interesting Tidbits – McDonald’s redesigned the McFlurry container tops because too many nosy baby hedgehogs were getting stuck in discarded containers when they entered through the cap opening then could not get out after having a treat. They ended up dying if someone did not rescue them. This protest for a new design came from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society who campaigned for the change for five long years.

Each McDonalds decides if they wish to carry the Strawberry Shake or the Coffee shake. Most stick to the vanilla or chocolate. You can always get some coffee and pour it into either shake if you desire a custom flavor.

Enjoy!