Shakes and Floats Recipes

Combine ice cream with your favorite fountain drinks to make magical shakes and floats. These easy recipes add to your repertoire of creamy frozen beverages, including thick strawberry milkshakes, diet protein shakes, and even classic root beer floats.

 
 
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Strawberry Blender Breakfast

From Better Homes and Gardens

Make this fresh fruit drink for breakfast or a delicious snack.

Strawberry Blender Breakfast

Pink Cloud

From Better Homes and Gardens

This strawberry shake can be made with ice cream or frozen yogurt.

Pink Cloud

Flavored Moo Juice

From Better Homes and Gardens

This ice cream refresher recipe takes less than five ingredients, whipping up quickly in a blender. It's an utterly fantastic kid's party drink, but don't wait for a special occasion to serve it.

Flavored Moo Juice

Fruit Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

Choose a flavor to make this quick-fix shake, which comparable to dessert.

Fruit Shake

Chocolate Cookie Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this cold, sweet shake for dessert or as a fun snack for kids.

Chocolate Cookie Shake

Very Raspberry Frappe

From Better Homes and Gardens

The ratio of fruit to milk to gelato in this recipe is balanced to make a drink that's too thick for a straw but perfect for a spoon. Substitute your favorite fruits if you like.

Very Raspberry Frappe

Stripey Strawberry Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

The rich strawberry syrup that flavors the milk isn't mixed into the drink, making for a pretty presentation that kids will love.

Stripey Strawberry Shake

Creamy Lemon-Lime Cooler

From Better Homes and Gardens

Different drink-mix flavors make coolers of various colors. Kids love to experiment with all the combinations.

Creamy Lemon-Lime Cooler

Saffron Lassi

From Food & Wine

Lassis are ubiquitous in India; the shakes, made with yogurt or buttermilk, can be sweet or salty. The Victorian-style Imperial Hotel in India's capital, New Delhi, where Peggy Markel stopped on her way to Rajasthan, has an extensive selection of lassi. This one is elegantly flavored with saffron.

Saffron Lassi

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Sparkling Sorbet Floats

From Better Homes and Gardens

Make your own carbonated fruit juice for this drink by simply combining your favorite juice with club soda.

Sparkling Sorbet Floats

Chocolate Stout Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

Kids love a version of this ice cream beverage without the stout. Stir crushed pretzels into the shake for added crunch.

Chocolate Stout Shake

Strawberry Swirl Milkshakes

From The Food Channel

Like the diner classic, these strawberry milkshakes are the real thing - dreamy, pink, frozen, and full of summer flavor.

Strawberry Swirl Milkshakes

Pineapple Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

If you like pineapple topping on ice cream, you'll love this tropical ice cream shake.

Pineapple Shake

Easy Chocolate Shakes

From Better Homes and Gardens

Fat-free pudding mix makes these easy-to-fix shakes unbelievably thick and creamy while keeping the calories and fat low.

Easy Chocolate Shakes

Sunny Strawberry Milk Shake

From Vegetarian Times

30 minutes or fewer. Inspired by the old-fashioned soda fountain treat, this refreshing drink is a perfect mid-morning or afternoon snack. The fruit gives it natural sweetness; the tofu increases the protein content. And adding ground flaxseeds contributes a pleasant, slightly nutty flavor plus fiber and omega-3s.

Sunny Strawberry Milk Shake

Moo Juice

From Better Homes and Gardens

Have several flavors of ice cream on hand and let the kids pick their favorite for these blender shakes.

Moo Juice

Strawberry-Mango Milk Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

This blended frozen fruit drink is perfect for breakfast or a snack.

Strawberry-Mango Milk Shake

Root-Beer Float

From Parents

Let root beer freeze partially up one side of a popsicle mold, add vanilla ice cream, and freeze for a snack or dessert that's as good as the drink.

Root-Beer Float

Vanilla Dream Float

From Better Homes and Gardens

You can purchase cream soda an amber shade or clear in color. The deeper shade adds a color contrast to the vanilla ice cream.

Vanilla Dream Float

Tropical Banana Nog

From Better Homes and Gardens

Keep a frozen banana or two on hand so you'll always be ready to blend, serve, and enjoy this cool low-calorie drink.

Tropical Banana Nog

Just Peachy Shake

From Better Homes and Gardens

Two Southern favorites, peaches and peanut butter, star in this frothy drink.

Just Peachy Shake

Caribbean Milk Shake

From Midwest Living

A pina-colada-flavored wine cooler is blended with ice cream to make this easy frozen drink.

Caribbean Milk Shake

Pink Drink

From Parents

This yogurt and fresh strawberry drink is good for breakfast or a snack.

Pink Drink

Lemon Drop Shakes

From Better Homes and Gardens

Whirl together vanilla ice cream and lemonade in a blender for a tart sweet sensation. It takes seconds to make and disappears almost as quickly.

Lemon Drop Shakes

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