In the hot season, often there is a desire to drink something cool, a milk shake is a good option. He is able not only to saturate the body, but also to quench his thirst. Such a drink is well suited as a dessert, but can also be used as an independent dish.
To prepare a milkshake, you need to stock up on the simplest ingredients: high-quality ice cream and milk. To give a berry or fruit note, you can use syrup.
Milkshake Syrups
Syrup is a sweet additive that is used in the preparation of drinks made from ice cream and milk. They help make the milkshake unusually tasty and fragrant, and also create a pleasant shade. Syrups for milkshakes have a well-selected composition, they are prepared from highly chilled components that are thoroughly whipped at low temperature.
Thus, the syrup does not change its taste when mixed with cold ice cream and milk. It should have a consistency that does not prevent the creation of a foam and a homogeneous structure of the cocktail. As a rule, syrups for milkshakes are sold in plastic bottles and have a convenient dispenser. At the moment, produce a large number of different types. The most popular are sweets with the taste of caramel, chocolate, pistachios, coconut, banana, strawberries, raspberries, as well as cherry syrup.
Milkshake Recipe
To prepare one serving of a milkshake with syrup and ice cream you will need:
- any berry or fruit syrup (to your taste) - 1 tablespoon;
- ice cream made from natural cream and milk - 100 grams;
- high fat cow milk - 200 milliliters.
Instructions for preparing a milkshake:
Prepare all the ingredients. Remove ice cream and milk from the refrigerator just before starting cooking. Pour the milk into a glass and place it in the freezer for 10 minutes so that it is as cold as possible (use a plastic glass).
Then you need to measure 100 grams of ice cream, for this it is recommended to use a special spoon, which helps to form balls (as a rule, 50 grams of the product is placed in this spoon, so two tablespoons will be enough). You can take ice cream of any taste, but the classic recipe implies the presence of vanilla ice cream, thanks to which the cocktail acquires a creamy taste.
Then put milk and ice cream in a blender and add the syrup to your taste. Syrups for milkshakes can be different, but a particularly tasty cocktail will be obtained by adding caramel or chocolate syrup. All ingredients must be mixed with a blender at maximum speed. Beat for 10 minutes. The readiness of a cocktail is determined by the presence of milk foam.
Cooking secrets
The thicker the milkshake, the better. To make the drink thicker, you can use one of the functions of the blender, which allows you to crack ice (twice). Thanks to this function, the drink will acquire a thicker consistency. If there is no blender, you can use a mixer.
If you want a more airy milkshake, then increase the time for mixing the ingredients in a blender. This will allow milk to be saturated with oxygen, foam will appear from the bubbles. Also, the volume will double.
Milkshake
After the drink is ready, you need to serve it beautifully. To serve milk drinks use special tall glasses. At the bottom of the glass, you can pour a little syrup, and then pour the cocktail into it. Often, a cocktail is decorated with cinnamon or grated chocolate. Also on the foam that formed on top, you can put a beautiful leaf of mint. Another decoration option will be strawberries, which need to be slightly cut in half and put on a glass.