DIY: Make a fast-food milkshake at home
Posted
Nov 20 2008, 12:40 PM
by
Karen Datko
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Recipes to reproduce favorite restaurant foods at home are popular right now, as more people cut spending by not eating out. If one of your fast-food cravings is a Wendy's Frosty, you're in luck.
Hillbilly Housewife, a Web site that's undergone a rebirth in the last year or so, has a recipe for a milkshake that tastes just like a Frosty, host Susanne assures us. Bonus: You don't need ice cream.
"With this recipe we can have delicious frosty milkshakes for a fraction of the cost of those using ice cream. And all the ingredients are on the pantry shelf," Susanne writes.
The contents are ice water and ice cubes, powdered milk, sugar, cocoa, vanilla and -- here's the surprise -- 2 tablespoons of corn oil plus a five-second squirt of nonstick spray. (For variations, please read the post.)
Those last two ingredients have caused a bit of a stir. In fact, this is the only recipe we've seen online that's followed by "a long rant" in response to readers' e-mails. If you're bothered about adding the oil and spray, take a look at labels on other foods in your house. Mayonnaise and coffee creamer are good examples.
"Let me make things clear. Fat makes things creamy,"
Susanne writes. "It may seem weird to add vegetable oil to a beverage, but manufacturers do it all the time."
