Milkshakes should be made with real ice cream. Plain and simple. Our old fashioned chocolate milkshake recipe uses chocolate milk along with real chocolate ice cream for the best shakes in town! This post contains affiliate links.
Recently we saw that one of our favorite fast food joints was having a sale on their shakes so we decided to treat the kids to a fun dessert! After waiting 45 minutes (it was so busy and they were way under-staffed) we finally got our shakes. And we were SO disappointed! Most of us didn’t even finish them. For some reason we thought that they would have real ice cream in them, but they did not. Every flavor began with soft serve vanilla and they added so much flavoring syrup that it was hard to swallow.
That is when we decided to make REAL shakes with the kids. You know, the kind with ice cream in them! We found an Old Fashioned Ice Cream shop up in Yuba City and they make REAL shakes. The thick, creamy, just ice cream and milk kind. They are worth every penny and those are the ones we wanted to make at home.
We just so happen to own a milkshake machine and so I pulled it out, stocked up on the kids’ favorite candy bar mix-ins, a half gallon of thick and creamy chocolate ice cream, and even splurged on chocolate milk. If we are going to make chocolate shakes, why water it down with white milk? 😉
They had fun choosing what kind of shake they were going to have. I asked my oldest if his shake was better than the one at the fast food joint and he said, “SO much better!”. What a difference REAL food makes! Ruby even enjoyed one with her little cousin. They didn’t care much for their lunch that day, but were excited to make shakes.
Here is how to make our chocolate milkshake recipe!
Old Fashioned Chocolate Milkshake Recipe
2 1/2 c. ice cream
1/3 c. chocolate milk
1/4 mix-ins
Serves 2.
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Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!
I would love a Pumpkin Milkshake with spiced wafers. Yum-oooo
I would like chocolate flavor.
Strawberry flavors over here! 🙂
I love real food too! I love mint flavors.
I’d love to try the chocolate!
Strawberry for sure!
My family are strawberry milk fiends!!!
I’d like to try strawberry! Maybe make a strawberry shake.
Chocolate!
Strawberry
ooh strawberry for me! LOVE your milkshake machine! <3
Chocolate
Yumm chocolate all the way lol..
I’m really a vanilla fan, but strawberry would be a hit at my house.
chocolate works for me! Thanks for the opportunity.
Oh the Chocolate, which we actually buy quite often for lunches. I’d make a milkshake with that and whole real strawberries a,d a glob of vanilla ice cream (a Neapolitan!); sounds gross but is good in fact.
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We love chocolate milk!
Yum. Makes me want some peanut butter shakes now.
I’m all about chocolate ALL the time! A little malt and it would be perfect! 😉
The only variety I have yet to try is the chocolate marshmallow, and that is only because I can’t find it in my area.
Chocolate of course.
Peach would be my pick!
Chocolate all the way!
I enjoy your site and would love to win
Where I live we call a shake a frappe (I still don’t know why) and no ice cream stand around here makes them like they used to. I should start making them at home my kids have never had a “real” one.
oh the chocolate!
We love chocolate!!
I would love to try the chocolate!
Chocolate for me for sure 🙂
Coffee!
I would like the strawberry
It’s all about chocolate. And I’m with you about not watering it down with regular milk.
Uh, CHOCOLATE!
Strawberry. I like pink things. 🙂