Name: Pretzel, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Malted Milkshake
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 2 medium milkshakes
Ingredients: 2 cups ( 264 g ) vanilla ice cream, from-scratch or store-bought; ¼ cup ( 61 ml ) milk; 3 tablespoons malted milk powder; 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, from-scratch or store-bought; ½ cup ( 40 g ) pretzel pieces; ½ cup ( 125 g ) milk chocolate pieces

Over the past couple of weeks, we have eaten at a number of places that have great burgers and milkshakes. We've gone all-in on the burgers, but have been way too full to even think about a milkshake. Usually, we get one to go, but we've been too full even for that. We had to take matters into our own hands and whip one up at home. When we've been in the mood for a milkshake at home, we've been making our fluffernutter version, which is so peanut butter-y!

While we were in college, our little dorm-size refrigerator had an itsy-bitsy freezer that was just enough room to stash some pints of ice cream. Our favorite indulgence was Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby ice cream. If you haven’t had it, let us fill you in – malted vanilla ice cream is loaded with peanut butter-filled, chocolate-covered pretzels and swirls of fudge and peanut butter. For anyone that loves the combination of pretzels, peanut butter and chocolate, this ice cream was absolute heaven.

We made it into a milkshake, and it totally quenched our thirst for a thick and creamy shake that we'd been craving.

We started with vanilla ice cream and added in a little milk, malted milk powder, peanut butter, pretzel pieces, and pieces of milk chocolate. This makes a super-duper thick shake, which we love; if you prefer a thinner milkshake, simply add more milk. You could also use semisweet or dark chocolate if you’d like; our Valrhona chocolate comes in oval-shaped disks, so we just broke them up with our fingers. You could use any type of baking chocolate bar or even chocolate chips.

This shake tasted just like the ice cream we downed by the pint-ful while in college, which is to say it’s absolutely fabulous.

We're ready for another one!

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