Week 3: Banana Chocolate Milkshake

The final product!!

 Hi all! Since I didn't love the past 2 recipes which were from the same cookbook, I decided to try to come up with my own recipe for a banana chocolate milkshake. On foodnetwork.com, I found a recipe for a basic milkshake (ice cream to milk ratio) and tried to put a healthier spin on it. Chocolate milkshakes are one of my all time favorite foods, so I tried to mix a milkshake with mashed bananas to see how I would like it! This is the second time I tried using banana as my healthy element. Below are the ingredients I used:

- 2 cups chocolate ice cream
- 1/4 cup of salted caramel ice cream
- 1/4 cup skim milk
- 3/4 of a banana

Turkey Hill All Natural is the BEST ice cream brand!

The chocolate ice cream I used (from Aldi)

Mashed up banana

As I mentioned before, I found a basic milkshake recipe online, and from there experimented a little in order to get my milkshake tasting the best it could. After first blending it and then tasting it, the banana flavor was way too strong. In my opinion, it tasted like medicine. To try to eliminate some of the banana taste, I added some more chocolate ice cream. However, the chocolate ice cream I used was a generic brand and wasn't the best. The chocolate taste wasn't strong enough. So, I ended up adding some Turkey Hill All Natural Salted Caramel ice cream to take away from the overpowering banana taste. It was better after that, but the final result was still so-so. However, I still think it's the best recipe I've made on this blog to date and my mom would agree. Another plus to this milkshake is that making it wasn't too difficult and didn't take very long.

The blending process

All in all, I would rate it 6.5/10. Would I make it again? Probably not, but I'm still glad I'm trying to eat outside of my comfort zone! Pictures of the final result below. 

See you next week!
- Emily