Pretzel, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Malted Milkshake
Over the past couple of weeks, I have eaten at a number of places that have great burgers and milkshakes. I’ve gone all-in on the burgers, but have been way too full to even think about a milkshake. Usually, I get one to go, but I’ve been too full even for that. I had to take matters into my own hands and whip one up at home. When I’ve been in the mood for a milkshake at home, I’ve been making my fluffernutter version, which is so peanut butter-y!
While I was in college, my little dorm-size refrigerator had an itsy-bitsy freezer that was just enough room to stash some pints of ice cream. My favorite indulgence was Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby ice cream. If you haven’t had it, let me 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.
I made it into a milkshake, and it totally quenched my thirst for a thick and creamy shake that I’d been craving.
I 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 I love; if you prefer a thinner milkshake, simply add more milk. You could also use semisweet or dark chocolate if you’d like; my Valrhona chocolate comes in oval-shaped disks, so I just broke them up with my fingers. You could use any type of baking chocolate bar or even chocolate chips.
This shake tasted just like the ice cream I downed by the pint-ful while in college, which is to say it’s absolutely fabulous.
I’m ready for another one!
One year ago: Apricot Cream Cheese Babka
Two years ago: Rocky Road Chocolate Bark
Three years ago: Jalapeño Popper Dip and Cream Cheese Brownies
Four years ago: How to Make Perfect Homemade Popcorn and Salted Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
Five years ago: Brown Sugar-Bacon Buttermilk Waffles
Six years ago: Black-and-White Banana Loaf
Seven years ago: Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Cake
Pretzel, Peanut Butter & Chocolate Malted Milkshake
Ingredients
- 2 cups (264 g) vanilla ice cream, homemade or store-bought
- ¼ cup (61 ml) milk
- 3 tablespoons malted milk powder
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, homemade or store-bought
- ½ cup (40 g) pretzel pieces
- ½ cup (125 g) milk chocolate pieces
Instructions
- Combine all of the ingredients in a blender and puree on medium speed until smooth and creamy.
- Top with whipped cream and serve.
Notes
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I just made the milkshake today! it was sooooo tasty! I loved it! I love thick creamy milkshakes too! especially if it has peanut butter and chocolate!!!!!!
Where do you get malted milk powder? This looks good. I don’t want summer to end because I want to keep drinking milkshakes and smoothies :)
Hi Kate, I buy it from King Arthur Flour: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/malted-milk-powder-16-oz
Just pinned this luscious milkshake! Looks like the perfect blend of salty and sweet…
All my favorite treats combined into one deliciously indulgent shake. Pinning! :)
I love the peanut butter-pretzel combo, and it must be even better with chocolate malt added to the mix! What a delicious looking shake. :)
Anything with peanut butter, chocolate and pretzels, I’m in! This looks so good!
You had me at Chubby Hubby. Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby is my favorite ice cream too. I will definitely be trying this milkshake- Thanks for sharing.
Oh, just saw that six years ago was when you posted your black and white banana bread recipe that I so often use! :)
Thank you, Michelle…….another food group discovered! (next to bacon, barbeque and a Primanti Bros. Sandwich)
Good times have come our way :D :D :D
I could use one of these right now! I wish we could get together and eat my no-bake cookies with your shakes!
Sweet and salty is really just the best combo!! This milkshake looks amazing!!
How on earth do you think of these recipes? Sweet, salty, creamy! I soooooo need one
Salty-sweet ANYTHING is my glorious downfall. I’ll take that entire glass and two straws please!
What guy doesn’t like a milkshake with chocolate, peanut butter and pretzels? The fact that I can be drinking/eating this in five minutes means I’ll be having this shake a few days in a row. :)
Oh, how lovely. I’m all about thick milkshakes with a PB element! This looks so good. Can I have it for breakfast? Calcium, you know!
Oh man, I need this right now. It looks so good! And I’m always too full after eating a big burger, so definitely gotta make ’em at home!