Shake and Make It: Eight Milkshakes to Blend at Home
Eight thick, creamy milkshakes you can make at home, courtesy of two of Delhi’s top beverage trainers.
1. Mint Chocolate Shake: Blend together four scoops of vanilla ice cream, 120 ml milk, 60 ml chocolate syrup and 25 ml pepper mint syrup and serve in a large tall glass. To garnish, dribble few drop of chocolate syrup on top in a squiggle or circular pattern.
2. Double chocolate shake: In a blender first pour 120 ml milk, then four scoops of chocolate ice-cream followed by 60 ml of chocolate syrup. Blend it till it becomes frothy and thick. Next, take a tall glass and just squeeze some chocolate syrup around the inner rim of the glass to line it and then pour in the shake and serve.
3. Banana malt shake: First pour 120 ml milk into a blender, followed by four scoops of vanilla ice cream, one chopped banana and two table spoons of Bournvita or Milo, and blend it. Serve it in a tall glass.
4. Strawberry shake: In a blender, blend together 120 ml milk, four scoops of strawberry ice-cream, 90 ml strawberry crush and four freshly washed strawberries. Serve it in a tall glass. Use strawberries slit from the centre as garnishing.
5. Peanut butter vanilla shake: For this thick and creamy shake, you need to blend together 120 ml milk, four scoops of vanilla ice cream and two tablespoons of peanut butter in a blender. Pour it into a tall glass and top it with a teaspoon dollop of peanut butter.
6. Orange and oat bran shake: Pour 120 ml milk into a blender along with four scoops of vanilla icecream, 90 ml orange pulp and two tablespoons of oatbran. Blend everything into a thick shake and serve in a tall glass. To garnish, sprinkle some oatbran on top of the shake. You can also replace orange with mangoes if you don’t like oranges.
7. Digestive cookie shake: Blend into a thick shake four scoops of butterscotch ice-cream, 120 ml milk and three digestive cookie. To garnish, just crush a cookie and sprinkle it on top.
8. Cake shake: Pour 120 ml milk, 50 gms of Mississippi Mud Cake (it’s easily available at bakeries) and four scoops of vanilla ice-cream in a blender. Keep blending until the ingredients become a thick shake. Use crushed cake as garnishing.
Courtesy: Abhishek Thakur, Corporate F&B trainer, Route04, Connaught Place, New Delhi
Vaibhav Uniyal, Beverage Trainer, Hinglish, Ground Floor, Pacific Mall, near Subhash Nagar metro station, New Delhi
From the July 2012 issue of FHM India.
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