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If you feel like a smoothie with an extra sweet twist, whip up a sweet and tangy banana shake to quench your thirst. Our guide, How to Make a Banana Milkshake, provides recipes for shakes with and without ice cream, as well as several innovative variations with ingredients like mango, peanut butter and crushed pineapple.
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Banana Milkshake Tips
- Blend bananas with vanilla ice cream or a combination of milk and ice to create a frothy shake.
- Combine the ingredients in a blender, processing until the shake is smooth.
- Sweeten the shake with sugar or vanilla extract, if desired.
- Consider variations on the recipe by adding elements like strawberries, peanut butter or yogurt.
- Serve the shake immediately after blending.
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Introduction
- If you want a rich, frothy drink with the added health benefits of potassium and fiber, make a delicious banana milkshake instead of the traditional vanilla version.The World's Healthiest Foods: Bananas Create a shake with ice cream as a cool treat or, if you prefer, blend bananas with milk and ice to make a lower fat shake with the consistency of a smoothie. Either way, the beverage is so easy to prepare, you'll be able to whip one up the instant you get a craving.
Making a Banana Milkshake
- Whether you create a banana shake with or without ice cream, you'll be able to blend two to three servings in less than five minutes using these simple steps.
With Ice Cream
- What You'll Need
- 1 banana
- 1 cup milk
- 5 scoops vanilla ice cream
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- blender
- Tall glasses
- What to Do
- Place the banana, milk, ice cream and sugar in the blender.Recipezaar: Banana Vanilla Milkshake
- Use increase or decrease the amount of ice cream to customize the thickness and taste to your liking.Recipezaar: Banana Vanilla Milkshake
- Blend for about 45 seconds, until smooth.Recipezaar: Banana Milkshake
- Pour into glasses and enjoy immediately.Recipezaar: Banana Milkshake with Vanilla
Without Ice Cream
- What You'll Need
- 1 banana
- 2 cups milk
- 4-5 ice cubes
- 1/8 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Blender
- Tall glasses
- What to Do
Variations
- If you like the plain shake recipe, but thirst for something more, you'll go bananas for these variations with additional ingredients and flavors.
- Add chocolate drink mix to recreate the flavor of a chocolate-covered banana.All Recipes: Banana Flip
- Blending in a dollop of Nutella gives the shake a hint of chocolate-hazelnut flavor.Recipezaar: Nutella Banana Milkshake
- Combine fresh mango with the banana for a tropical flavor.All Recipes: Yummy Mango Banana Milkshake
- Cooked oatmeal and strawberries turn an ordinary banana shake into a meal.AOL Food: Gone Bananas for Breakfast Shake
- Combine strawberries and bananas for a classic smoothie flavor.Recipezaar: Monkey Milkshake
- You can also use raspberries if you prefer the taste to strawberries.Recipezaar: Raspberry-Banana Milkshake
- Give the shake a tropical twist with crushed pineapple and coconut.Recipezaar: Banana Cream Milkshake
- Peanut butter and honey provide a nice complement to the bananas.Recipezaar: Peanut Butter Banana Milkshake
- Plain yogurt and lemon juice give the shake extra tang.All Recipes: Banana Shake
- Blend coffee and banana liqueur along with pineapple juice and chocolate syrup to create an alcoholic banana shake.All Recipes: Dirty Banana
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