Alice Waterson - Simple Milkshake Cookbook: 30 Deliciously Creamy Ways to Shake Up Your Life

With summer quickly approaching its always great to find delicious treats you can enjoy thatwont leave you hot and bothered like a tall glass of your favorite milkshake. Milkshakes havebeen loved for generations and can be found on just about any casual restaurant menu you find. Whats even better is that they are surprising easy to make and will have you enjoying a sweettreat most times in just a matter of minutes.

Milkshakes are like blank artistic canvases as once you have the premise right you are free to toss in whatever you please and its still bound to be simply delish. Over the next few pageswe will be creating 30 delicious milkshake recipes together that will knock your boots off withflavor. These are perfect for hanging out with your kids or just enjoying a guilty pleasure dayall by yourself. All you will need to get started is your blender, your ingredients, a copy of thisbook and a whole lot of enthusiasm.

The Banana Colada is deceptively light and sober. More like a virgin cocktail perhaps than a milkshake, nevertheless this recipe is close to the heart of all those who choose a Pina coladaover a margarita. The combination of pineapple and coconut is inherently tropical and a greattaste to indulge in while reclining on a sun-lounger, even if it is within the confines of yourback garden.

6 tbsp. coconut milk
4 tbsp. pineapple juice
1 ripe banana frozen and chopped
cup pineapple chunks
4 tbsp. natural Greek yogurt
1 tsp. vanilla essence
tsp. salt

Banana is almost always lurking somewhere within a milkshake. Whether in frozen form, roasted, flavored ice-cream or plain everyday bananasits presence is a good sign. Here thebanana once again exhibits its versatility and transforms into a banana split milkshake. The endresult is a gloriously soft and sweet cloudlike indulgence.

Chocolate sauce
1 cup vanilla ice cream
1 very ripe banana
3 tablespoons - 1/4 cup whole milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Whipped cream (for topping)
Sprinkles (for topping)

An apple cinnamon milkshake a day keeps the doctor away! Who doesnt love the combination of apple and cinnamon? Perfect as a hot summer thirst quencher. This recipe makes 2 shakes,so enjoy it together with a friend or save one for later.

1 cup skin peeled apples chopped roughly
2 cups chilled milk
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp cinnamon powder
4 almonds (optional but makes the shake thicker and the flavor combination is amazing)
6 ice cubes

Key-lime pie fanatics will rarely stray from the classic version, best served up in a lonely roadside diner in the southern United States. But serve any key-lime aficionado with thismilkshake and their initial grimace of misbelief will morph into surprised wonder, this shakeis that good. And healthy to boot. The agave syrup and coconut oil are natural ingredients goodfor your health and great in a milkshake.

The juice and zest of 8 key-limes freshly squeezed.
2 tbsp. coconut oil
1 cup coconut milk
1 ripe banana chopped and frozen
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. agave syrup
cup graham crackers crushed
6 drops green food coloring
6 ice cubes

Kahlua, much like Baileys, is often added to coffee and desserts as a dash of coffee andsweetness following an indulgent dinner. Cookies and Kahlua makes a deliciously decadentcombination for a milkshake, quite indulgent enough that it can be served in pretty glass jarsrather than tall glasses. Again, coffee means the kids will probably prefer to stay away fromthis onejust as well considering the alcohol content, however meagre, of the Kahlua itself.

5 scoops coffee ice-cream
1 cups milk
4 tbsp. Kahlua
2 chocolate chip cookies chopped roughly plus one crumbled for topping.
6 ice cubes

Green tea is one of those drinks many people feign to like in order to benefit from its healthyproperties. Thankfully matcha powder distils many of those healthy properties into a powderform which can be used in just about anything, from pancakes to muffins to milkshakes. Theflavour is subtle but unmistakable and delicious when blended with milk or ice-cream.

1 tbsp. Matcha Powder
1 tbsp. honey or agave syrup
1 cup milk
6 ice cubes

Homer Simpson that is. This would be his dream milkshake of course. A recipe that comeswith a straw-speared donut? Of course, it would. The idea of blending donuts into ice-creammay come as a shock for those who like to keep things healthy but to many others it is a flashof genius. The almond milk and cinnamon sugar wrap up this recipe nicely.

1 cup coffee chilled
1 cup almond milk vanilla flavored if possible
4 scoops coffee ice-cream
2 scoops vanilla ice-cream
2 large cake donuts
2 small cake donuts
4 ice cubes
cinnamon sugar for rim