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!
Katie I just blended some of your Cinnamon Roll Pie into the basic milkshake recipe for a quick breakfast – heavenly!!! …maybe like a doughnut shake!?
That sounds so ridiculously good!
I made this and it is delicious! I make the voluminous ice cream out of almond milk in my ice cream machine and use 2/3 cup of the ice cream instead of liquid milk. It came out THICK, like hard to suck through a straw… which is just how I like it 🙂 Thanks Katie!
Katie,
I recently purchased Truvia baking blend and am confused on the calories/carbohydrates in the product. On the container it says 5 calories per 1/2 tsp. and 10 calories per 1-1/2 tsp. All of the calories come from carbohydrates. My question is how many calories/carbohydrates are there in 1/2 or 1 cup? I even called the company, which was not very helpful as they only restated that 1/2 tsp has 5 calories. Very confused!!
Oh my gosh, I used to drink milkshakes ALL the time! I love them and anything ice creamy.. however, when I gave up milk, it made it a little harder to get them. Until I found out that a juice bar at my uni did a soy peanut butter shake… I went every other day for breakfast from then on! And I think that peanut butter shakes are still my favorite.
Ahh childhood….sprinkles add so much to anything! : )
That sounds yummy! Can’t help but look at the pink frosting cookie, though. 🙂
Cream of tartar? So cool I have to try that – I definitely got into butter extract after I saw it in a few of your recipes, and found that that made EVERYTHING taste like cake batter! Is cream of tartar kinda similar in giving it that flavour?
Kinda a different flavor… but cake-y just the same!
This recipe looks good! I think my fave milkshake is the mocha one you can get at Arby’s. But who am I kidding, I love all things and flavors that involve ice cream.
On a side note- when does the contest for the vitamix end? (I didn’t want to ask that on that post since I know you’re picking by the comments). Thanks!
Sorry, haven’t set a date yet. The company wants it to last awhile.
What exactly IS cream of tartar? Guess I need to research that. And butter extract like another reader posted, what’s that?! So much to learn! 🙂 love this blog!
Mint chip was always my favorite milkshake flavor, but your chocolate PB shake has converted me into a serious PB shake fan! I need to try this recipe, but I’ll have to wait until tomorrow since I just ate your banana bread in a bowl and I’m so full, lol.
Update: having ths for breakfast right now, and it is divine! It really does taste like a cookie, and even though I used almond milk and no cashew butter (don’t have any), it’s nice and thick. Will definitely be making this one again!!