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9 Epic Milkshake Recipes That Will Make You Weak in the Knees
If you were expecting healthy, low-fat fare, turn back now. It’s not too late to go on eating your asparagus stalks and seasonal greens. But if you’re up for a diet-busting, take-no-prisoners sugar high, read on — it’s milkshake season, and we’re doing it right.
Sure, you can shake things up with fro-yo and skim milk. It’s possible. It’s also very sad, like mentioning milkshakes without the requisite, rousing chorus of that one Kelis song. So this week, we rounded up the creamiest, most spectacular recipes, from toasted marshmallow to cherry and bourbon. Grill up some burgers and grab a tall glass — we’re bringing all the shakes to the yard.
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Morning Coffee
Drink our breakfast? Don’t mind if we do. How Sweet Eats puts two of our favorite morning treats — coffee and doughnuts — together in one, glorious glass.
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Butterscotch
Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Butter, that is. Half Baked Harvest drizzles her creamy butterscotch milkshake with decadent, peanut butter-filled hot fudge.
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Campfire Songs
Pepper whips up the best thing about s’mores — toasted marshmallows — into a shake. Here’s your childhood in a glass.
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Scout's Honor
And while we’re already dreaming of campfires and summer days, Kirbie’s Cravings pays tribute to that Girl Scout favorite: Samoas. Even if you insist on calling them Caramel Delites, no one’s arguing with a chocolate and coconut-filled milkshake.
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Bourbon Street
With a healthy dose of bourbon, this milkshake from Crepes of Wrath is all grown up.
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Fluffernutter
You know those peanut-shaped cookies you used to love? The ones with that sweet-meets-salty goodness to die for? Put them in a milkshake, à la Brown Eyed Baker. You’ll thank us later.
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Luck of the Irish Cream
Savory Simple opts for Nutella, because duh. And Irish cream. Mother of milkshakes…
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Cherry on Top
We love cherries. But the one thing that takes them from delicious to next-level divine? Roasting them. How Sweet Eats makes roasted cherries the star of the show — and then pours hot fudge all over, because she just gets us.
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Coffee Meeting
For all our bourbon this and fudge that, we’re happy with just our two dessert mainstays: coffee and chocolate. Some Kitchen Stories has a recipe that’s simple, quick, and everything we want in a milkshake.
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