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!
I LOVE your tablecloth! Super summery!
Ohhh, this looks yummy! I love a good Milkshake! I have to give this one a try! Thanks Katie!!
k, not only does this look amazing, but I looooooove your photos!! I seriously hope to be as good as you someday. These are so beautiful, so full of colour. Gorgeous, Katie!
WOAH. Have never thought of adding baking soda or cream of tarter in a milkshake! How interesting!!!
Ummm, no, it is not weird to drink a milkshake! It is simply efficient! Not to mention delicious! I share your frustration with wanting to gain weight. All through high school I hated being skinny. All the other girls had curves and looked like actual girls. Unfortunately I didn’t have any healthy role models, so I turned to fast food and desserts to try and gain weight. I know this has played a huge part in my health as an adult. Fortunately I did realize this at some point and changed my ways. I’ve been a veg for about 4 years. And I actually like my body now! Which is also fun.
Nice to know someone else who understands! People always say, “I wish I could eat as much cake as I want” but if you eat ten slices, you’re going to feel sick and soon start to HATE cake! 😉
I say blend in an actual sugar cookie! Those sugar cookies are FABULOUS. I raved about them on the actual blog entry a few days ago. I made a batch and took them to a house where we were trading massage and other energy/body work, and when the children had come in from school, those cookies were gone in less than FIVE minutes. The girls declared them the best cookies they’d ever had! Pretty serious accolades coming from 9 and 11 year old girls. 🙂
My favorite shake by FAR is mint chocolate chip also!!!
oh my Gosh that looks amazing! sugar cookies and milkshakes = one dynamite dessert! genius to add cream of tartar too!! never would have thought of that! and gorgeous photos — as usual:) thanks for the recipe!
Wow this looks intriguing to say the least. I think the vanilla and the cashew butter would make this taste quite good.
Do you buy the cashew butter by Artisana? That stuff is uber expensive! 🙂
Yeah, it is :(.
I’ll only buy it if it’s on sale, and then I buy in bulk! But you can also make your own by soaking raw cashews and then blending.
Katie, this looks so good! I wish, though, there was some wonderful way for those of us who are chubby vegans to share some of our problem with you hard-to-keep-weight-on ladies! Wouldn’t that be handy? ;D
Meanwhile, I was recently nominated by Kristy over at http://www.keepinitkind.com for Kreativ Blogger and the Sunshine Blogger Awards. I wanted to pass it on to you. Your site is always so cheerful and your recipes so amazing! You can check it out at http://cheerfullyvegan.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/blog-awards/
Aww Pixie, thank you so so much. I wish you could see the huge smile you just put on my face!!