Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Chocolate Covered Cherry Shake

Who does not like chocolate covered cherries? Raise your hand. All of you that raised you hand...you're lying! LOL! Everybody likes chocolate covered cherries! This is one of my favorite shakes and one of the first ones I invented.




 

Chocolate Covered Cherry Shake

1-2 cups ice
1 tablespoon sf chocolate fudge pudding mix
1 tablespoon Smucker's sf fudge topping
1 tablespoon Hershey's sf chocolate syrup
1 tablespoon chocolate coffee creamer
1 heaping teaspoon Hershey's Special Dark cocoa
1 tablespoon sf Nesquik
2 tablespoons Splenda Granulated
1 pinch instant coffee
2 drops vanilla extract
1 drop cherry extract
1 scoop chocolate protein mix
4 frozen cherries
1 dash salt
4-6 ounces Almond Breeze original almond milk
Put ice in blender. Add all other ingredients (adding the milk last). Use the ice crushing button on your blender to crush the ice. Blend shake, starting at lowest speed and working up to fastest speed. Pour into tall glass and enjoy!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Milk Dud Shake

Bob spotted some sugar free caramel topping in the store the other day. He thought maybe I could find a shake or dessert to use it in. Who me?!? LOL!!! Of course I can find a way to use it! So this afternoon when he wanted a Death by Chocolate shake, I thought I'd give the caramel topping a try. Then I remembered I had some butter extract from some awful recipe I tried a while back so I put a couple of drops of that too. It came out tasting like those wonderful, delicious, incredible Milk Duds that I used to eat by the handful! Who do you think was excited!

Milk Dud Shake

1-2 cups ice
1 tablespoon sf chocolate fudge pudding mix
1 tablespoon Hershey's sf chocolate syrup
1 tablespoon chocolate coffee creamer
1 heaping teaspoon Hershey's Special Dark cocoa
1 tablespoon sf Nesquik
1 scoop chocolate protein mix
2 tablespoons Splenda Granulated
1 pinch instant coffee
2 drops vanilla extract
2 drops butter extract
1 tablespoon Smucker's sf caramel topping
1 dash salt
4-6 ounces Almond Breeze original almond milk

Place ice in blender. Add the rest of the ingredients, ending with the milk. Set blender to crush ice, then blend on lowest speed and building up to highest speed until shake is thick and frothy.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Apple Cider Shake

I don't normally like apple flavored things. Sour apple gum is horrible! Apple candy (when I used to eat candy) is awful! But I always did like apple cider. So when a friend at my local support group gave me a packet of sugar free apple cider I got excited. Of course you can make it according to the directions, but why not make an apple cider protein shake! I have only made it cold but there's no reason you can't make it hot during the winter. I'll post that recipe after I make it. Of course it's going to have to get colder than 70F for a hot apple cider shake!

I find this at Walmart
Apple Cider Shake

1-2 cups ice
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
1 tablespoon sugar free vanilla pudding mix
1 envelope sugar free apple cider mix
2 drops vanilla extract
1 good pinch instant coffee
sweetener, to taste (optional)
4-6 ounces milk

Place ice in blender. Add the rest of the ingredients, ending with the milk. Set blender to crush ice, then blend on lowest speed and building up to highest speed until shake is thick and frothy.