This tastes like you’re drinking a sugar cookie.
Ok, that just sounds weird… but this is really good!
Ensure? No thanks!
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you probably know I don’t really like being as skinny as I am. Although I create recipes that can be very low in calories, I usually take advantage of the higher-calorie options if making them for myself. To keep weight on, I pretty much have to eat 24/7, which works out perfectly since my job entails lots of taste testing! 
In high school, I often drank vegan “weight-gain shakes” called Power Dreams. However, two things happened: the company discontinued the shakes, and I bought a Magic Bullet. So now I make my own shakes! (I wrote more about my weight-gain efforts at the very bottom of this link.)
Big thanks to reader, Kate, for inspiring this milkshake.
A few months ago, she left a comment on my Cake Batter Milkshake recipe, suggesting I experiment with adding cream of tartar to my smoothies for a fun cake-like taste. Of course, as soon as she said it, I had to try it. Thank you, Kate!!
Sugar Cookie Milkshake
(serves 1)
- 2/3 cup milk of choice (try canned coconut milk for an ice-cream-like shake)
- 1 frozen, over-ripe banana or 1/2 cup of your favorite ice cream (see nutrition link below, for my many substitution options!)
- scant 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- optional: 1-2 tbsp raw cashew butter (I like to add this)
- optional: add cinnamon for a snickerdoodle shake!
- optional: 1 scoop protein powder, if desired
Blend everything together until very smooth. Don’t add ice; it will dilute the flavor. Feel free to crumble an actual sugar cookie into the shake as well! (My “healthy sugar cookie” recipe is linked at the end of this post.)
Also shown in the milkshake photos: Healthy Sugar Cookies.
What is your favorite milkshake flavor?
According to an online poll, the most-loved milkshake flavor is chocolate. Surprisingly, people chose strawberry over vanilla. My favorite was fourth: mint-chocolate-chip!
Mmmm! This sounds like drinking cake batter! Something about makes me want to put it in coffee or chai.
Mint Chocolate Chip is my favorite too!
I drink this healthier version probably once a week!
https://lett-trim.today/2011/02/24/raw-mint-chocolate-chip-milkshake/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Oh oops, that was supposed to be a reply to Katie, not another comment! 😕
That’s my favorite, too :).
I have been reading for blog for a LONG time now, but I have never made any of your milkshakes…. that is all going to change with this recipe! Thanks!
I wouldn’t have even considered myself a milkshake person and I have greatly enjoyed the ones I have tried from this site. This one looks really good and I love the idea of adding cashew butter!
Mmmm I need this right now!
as much as i love chocolate, i usually prefer vanilla when it comes to milkshakes and ice cream. i also love cookies ‘n cream milkshakes!
OH. MY. YUM.
Cream of tartar and baking soda? Well… if YOU say so, I will have to trust you and try it. Gosh look what you’re making me have to do. 😉
Those photos are gorgeous! (I know I know, why am I surprised?)
I am literally about to make this right now!
I think cashews/cashew butter are key for the cake batter like flavor – nutritional yeast helps too, just a tsp or so! 🙂
Good to know. I was just thinking cashew butter is probably really rich without a really dominant flavoring (like when I use peanut butter or coconut butter). I would never have though about nutritional yeast!
Do you add the 1 tsp of nutritional yeast to the cashew butter or this milkshake for a cake batter taste? I guess inadvertently if you add nutritional yeast to cashew butter it would be added to this drink though.
I generally get a cheesy taste from nutritional yeast when I add it when cooking, but I LOVE anything cake batter! I must try it
My favorite milkshake has always been strawberry!
My favorite milkshake is a chocolate malt! 😀
P.S., when does the Vitamix contest end? 🙂
Sorry, I haven’t set a date yet.
Oh my goodness! YUM!!!
I’m simple – my favorite is vanilla.
Yet…I’m thinking that might change after I make this… 😉
Oooooooo sugar cookie sounds even better than cookies’n cream!
I used to go for the crazier milkshake flavors, but now I really love vanilla, if the vanilla is pure and delicious. I especially like shakes with actual vanilla bean seeds in them. Sometimes simple is best.
Yum! My favorite milkshake flavor has always been vanilla. Boring to some, but to me it is a never fail classic.
I believe right now my favorite is the peanut butter cookie dough milkshake which I had chocolate chips too.
I finally got peppermint extract yesterday so an entire new world is about to open up. When I was a kid, chocolate chip mint was pretty much the only ice cream I would eat.
I’m in love with your mint chocolate chip milkshake and have used it to convert several of my friends to spinach consumers! I’m going to have to try this one because I happen to have a bag of cream of tartar I bought several months ago in the bulk foods section of the local co-op. I’ve been trying to figure out uses for it and I just bet cake and cookie milkshakes will be a great choice.
Mint-chocolate chip is my favorite too, Katie!
I can’t WAIT to try your shakes with the added cream of tartar!