A ridiculously delicious snickerdoodle milkshake topped with salted caramel and whipped cream.
Happy April Fools’ Day! Have you been fooled yet? Or have you been the fooler? I’m not usually much of a prankster on April 1st, but since I have Baking Mischief now, I thought I should do something .
I had this whole silly post planned where I was going to write a straight-faced recipe for making toast, but THEN I thought instead of playing a joke on you, lovely readers, what if we all played a terrible, horrible, amazing, delicious joke on our bodies instead and ingested something terriblicious.
Enter, this monster of a milkshake.
I’m sure you all saw those crazy-pants milkshakes from down under on Instagram last summer. They are the type of thing you see and your brain instantly goes, “NOPE!” And your heart sighs, “ Someday .”
Well, someday has come. (And in the interest that this not be your last someday, please don’t drink this entire thing on your own. Share it with somebody–or 5 somebodies–you love.)
Hello, Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Milkshake.
You’ve got snickerdoodles . You’ve got cinnamon. You’ve got vanilla ice cream. You’ve got all those things mixed together and then whipped cream piled on top. Then, since that clearly isn’t enough, we douse the glass, inside and out, with salted caramel and put some cookie crumbs on top. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?
I previewed a little snapshot of this recipe a couple of weeks ago, because I was just too excited not to. It’s not often I get to leave sanity behind and create something purely ridiculous and delicious.
And just in case you’re wondering, hey, Tracy, do cinnamon cookies and salted caramel really go together? The answer is, yes. Yes, they do.
Ingredients
- ▢ 3 cups vanilla ice cream slightly softened
- ▢ 1/2 to 1 cup milk
- ▢ 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- ▢ 4 inch 3-snickerdoodle cookies* divided
Toppings
- ▢ Salted caramel sauce
- ▢ Whipped cream
Instructions
Milkshakes
- Combine ice cream, 1/2 cup milk, cinnamon, and 3 of the snickerdoodles, broken into smaller pieces, in your blender. Blend until cookies are incorporated. Add up to 1/2 cup more milk and blend until milkshake reaches your desired consistency.
Assemble
- Take a heaping spoonful of caramel and drizzle it around the inside of your 16-ounce glasses. Divide milkshake evenly between them.
- Things get messy from here, so if you are going to line the rims of your cups with caramel, make sure the cups are on a plate to catch the drips and are where you plan on drinking them! Use a spoon to drizzle caramel around the edges, letting some of it fall into the cup as well.
- Top with whipped cream.
- Crumble the remaining cookie and sprinkle over the top.
- Add a cute straw, drink responsibly, and enjoy!
Notes
Nutritional Information
An entire year’s worth of delicious Meatless Monday dinner ideas.
On Monday, I posted the last entry in my March Meatless Monday series. I love doing these monthly themes on the blog because it gives me a bit of structure for my posting schedule, and I get the chance to dig a little deeper into a food category than I might otherwise in such a short period of time.
So since it looks like these series are going to be a permanent fixture on the blog for the time being, I thought I would start finishing the month with a roundup of related recipes from some of my lovely fellow bloggers.
In the future, I’ll probably highlight 20 or so, but since this was Meatless Monday month, and there are 52 Mondays in a year, I rounded up 48 other vegetarian recipes to go with the 4 I posted. That means that all together there’s a new and delicious meal here for each Monday of the year!
To recap, these were mine for the month.
And on to the main event, 48 more gorgeous vegetarian recipes perfect for Meatless Mondays.
Saturday Morning Snapshot
Can you possibly guess what the main ingredient in two of today’s test recipes was?
State of the Blog
On the blog this week we finished up March Meatless Mondays with a delicious creamy pasta and a round up of a year’s worth of Meatless Monday recipes, and on Friday, there was my new favorite milkshake. Have you checked out that post yet? I love everything I post on the blog, but I really love this one.
Next week’s the start of our April series. I love the subject matter, but having shot two of the recipes already, I can say that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to photograph and I have no idea why! Keep an eye out for that on Monday. Then there’s a quick and easy side on Wednesday and a positively adorable desert on Friday.
Recipes/posts released this week were:
Easy Fettuccine Alfredo With Broccoli – A quick and easy vegetarian dish for busy Meatless Mondays, full of broccoli and cheesy Alfredo goodness!
48 More Meatless Monday Meal Ideas – An entire year’s worth of delicious Meatless Monday dinner ideas.
Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Milkshake – A ridiculously delicious snickerdoodle milkshake topped with salted caramel and whipped cream.
Pop-culture Corner
Why did no one tell me Grantchester season 2 was airing right now on PBS!? There has been such a dearth of pastoral picnics, disconcertingly attractive vicars, and Labrador puppies in my life since season 1 ended!
Archer is also back! Some of my fellow geeky bloggers did Archer -themed posts for the premiere and they – are – fantastic!
Is anyone else watching Hap and Leonard on Sundance? I binged episodes 1-5 this week in preparation for the season finale on Wednesday. It’s so good, like Justified , minus the law element. All the episodes are available on demand if you want to catch up!
Marvel’s Poe Dameron #1 drops next week. I’m not really much of a comics reader, but I somehow got roped in to baking Poe’s Jacket cookies for a comic shop release party, so I think I’m going to have to check this one out.
And speaking of Marvel, what do you think of these new Doctor Strange photos? I love Cumberbatch’s hair and Ejiofor’s sword, but that practical footwear looks like someone spray painted my dad’s tennis shoes and made them into boots. Not into it.
Meal Planning
Saturday: Take Out Sunday: BBQ Monday: Easy Peasant Soup Tuesday: Chicken Salad Wednesday: Sweet and Sour Chicken Thursday: Shanghai Pork Friday: Chicken in Basil Cream Sauce with Orzo
Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Milkshake
Ingredients
- 3 cups vanilla ice cream slightly softened
- 1/2 to 1 cup milk
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 inch 3-snickerdoodle cookies* divided
Toppings
- Salted caramel sauce
- Whipped cream
Instructions
Milkshakes
- Combine ice cream, 1/2 cup milk, cinnamon, and 3 of the snickerdoodles, broken into smaller pieces, in your blender. Blend until cookies are incorporated. Add up to 1/2 cup more milk and blend until milkshake reaches your desired consistency.
Assemble
- Take a heaping spoonful of caramel and drizzle it around the inside of your 16-ounce glasses. Divide milkshake evenly between them.
- Things get messy from here, so if you are going to line the rims of your cups with caramel, make sure the cups are on a plate to catch the drips and are where you plan on drinking them! Use a spoon to drizzle caramel around the edges, letting some of it fall into the cup as well.
- Top with whipped cream.
- Crumble the remaining cookie and sprinkle over the top.
- Add a cute straw, drink responsibly, and enjoy!
