Strawberry Thin Mint Milkshake

Mikey and I were talking about how we haven’t really seen and Girl Scout’s in our neighborhood recently, and then bam….they snuck up on us! Or should I say that I saw a Girl Scout walking through the farmer’s market and essentially ran after her and instantly bought three boxes of thin mints! Love it!

My mom taught me that thin mints are best when they are frozen, so instead of just throwing all the boxes in the freezer, we only threw two in and used the remaining box for this week’s food post. Enjoy our strawberry thin min milkshake inspired by thin mints, and be sure to support the Girl Scouts of America and go buy some delicious boxes of whatever you favorite cookies may be! This is an American tradition that we need to keep going, one cookie at a time!

*If you find the chance, you should absolutely go pick up some old fashion ice cream float glasses!

Ingredients: makes 2

1 quart strawberry ice cream
1 quart mint chocolate chip ice cream
6 thin mints
1 ½ cups half and half
½ cup whip
1 Tablespoon powdered sugar

This is the simplest recipe I think we have on Food Nasty. All you need to do is blend together all the ice cream and the half and half. Next you need to make the whip cream by whipping together the heavy cream and powdered sugar for about 2 minutes until it gets stiff. Don’t over whip. Now for the best part….crumble up the cookies and sprinkle on top. Yay a milkshake inspired by the wonderful Girl Scout cookies we all love!

Halloween Pumpkin Milkshake

 

So we will fully admit that we love a good milkshake, and that a spiced one is possibly the best (besides strawberry). This is a simple recipe with all the fall flavors in it, we use soy ice cream in this to make it a bit healthier, and because milk can be very hard on your stomach. One special thing we have added is instead of the whip cream you expect, we have made an almond whip cream, which has the slight taste of marzipan, and is our new addiction.  The 11^th day of Halloween comes in style with a delectable shake!

Ingredients: Milkshake
6 tbsp whole milk
7 scoops soy vanilla ice cream
2/3 cup pumpkin puree
Pinch of cinnamon
Pinch ground nutmeg

Whip cream:
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tbsp confectioners sugar
1 tsp almond extract

 

 

 

 

So simple, take your milkshake ingredients and blend! Yeyuh!!

For the whip cream take your cream, add the sugar and almond extract and using an electric whisk, whisk it together until it starts to form into a thick cream. You don’t want to over whip, you want it to be just right, so that the cream can form a bit of a peak, but isn’t overly stiff.

Using a sandwich bag, pour the whip cream in, cut one of the corners off, and use it to top your milkshake with whip cream…top with some cinnamon…and drink!! Yum