Shamrock Shake Recipe

Close up of one Shamrock Shake overhead.

Just like your restaurant favorite this Shamrock Shake Recipe is absolutely delicious, creamy and full of flavor. An easy copycat treat you can make at home.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Shamrock Shake, Shamrock Shake Recipe

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 0

Total Time 10

Servings

Calories 1307kcal

Author Dana at ThisSillyGirlsKitchen.com

Ingredients

2 cups heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
3 cups vanilla ice cream about 8 scoops
⅓ cup whole milk
¾ teaspoon peppermint extract more or less to taste
green food coloring to your preference
maraschino cherries for garnish
sprinkles for garnish optional

Instructions

In a medium-sized bowl, whip the heavy cream with the powdered sugar until you get stiff peaks. You can do this by hand or with an electric hand mixer, set aside.
Place the ice cream, milk, peppermint extract, green food coloring, and half of the whipped cream into a blender. Blend until smooth. Taste, add more food coloring to achieve your desired color if necessary. Add more peppermint extract to taste if needed. Blend again to combine if you added anything.
Pour the milkshake into glasses. Top with the remaining whipped cream, maraschino cherries, and sprinkles if using. Serve immediately.

Notes

Start out with a smaller amount of extract before adding more and adjust to taste, different brands we find have different potency.
You can use gel or liquid food coloring for this recipe, use as much to achieve your desired color.
The toppings are optional, but highly recommended.
The addition of the whipped cream into the shake itself is really what give it the best flavor.
Store-bought whipped cream will work for this recipe, see my tips above.
This can easily be doubled.

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