Homemade Shamrock Shake Recipe
Making your own Homemade Shamrock Shake is super easy and you can make it year-round! This popular green shake recipe is creamy, minty, and ready in five minutes.
Servings: 1 serving
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
- ¼ cup milk (whole works best)
- ¼ teaspoon mint extract
- 4 drops green food coloring
Optional garnishes
- chocolate syrup
- whipped cream
- green sanding sugar
- Maraschino cherry
Instructions
- In a blender add the ice cream, milk, mint extract, and green food and blend until creamy.
- Drizzle chocolate syrup into a glass, and pour the ice cream mixture in. Top with whipped cream, green sanding sugar, and maraschino cherry, if desired.
Notes
- This recipe makes one shake, but it's so easy to double and make more.
- You can use food coloring or food gel coloring. The gel will be a brighter color so only a little is needed.
- If you are sensitive to food dyes, you can skip them. The shake will taste just as delicious.
- Want more mint flavor? Use ½ teaspoon of mint extract instead of ¼.
- Add a couple of Oreo cookies into the blender to make an Oreo Shamrock McFlurry.
- To make this a vegan shake: use non-dairy vanilla ice cream, non-dairy milk, and non-dairy whipped topping.
- Want a thicker or thinner shake? Add ice cream or milk to get your desired consistency.
- You can even make this a boozy shake by adding a little of Baileys, Creme de Cacao, or Creme de Menthe.
- Since you can make this shake year-round, add red and green sprinkles for Christmas, red food coloring, and red heart sprinkles for Valentine's Day.