If you are a beginner to cooking, vanilla milkshake is perfect to include as part of your fledgeling ventures! Even if you are a seasoned cook, you can whip up a quick vanilla milkshake on days when your refrigerator is practically empty. This recipe is for the gourmets and food snobs out there. The rest can substitute vanilla extract with vanilla essence1. Store it in your insulated water bottle or flask, so you can have a cup when you feel like it.
Health Benefits:
Vanilla extract contains vanillin, which is a natural antioxidant that can possibly inhibit breast cancer. Milkshakes are a great source of calcium, vitamin D, protein, and vitamin A.
Ingredients
vanilla ice-cream: 1 cup
Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
fresh milk (whole please!): ¾ cup
Sugar to taste
How To Make Vanilla Milkshake Recipe
- Blend all ingredients together until smooth.
- Pour milkshake into an insulated tumbler glass and enjoy it!
Homemade Vanilla milkshake is ideal for adults, kids, and the elderly alike and is a much better alternative to preservative-laden and artificially flavored beverages.
Trivia
- Flowers of the vanilla vine last only for a day.
- Contrary to using the term ‘vanilla’ to describe something familiar or conventional, the vanilla vine is extremely rare, making it the most expensive spice in the world after saffron.
- Vanilla has no natural pollinators except the melipona been—native to Central America. For commercial production, vanilla is pollinated manually using a stick that resembles a toothpick.