The 2009 Fabulous Food Network Magazine Challenge
Recipe 15 – Double Chocolate-Marshmallow Milkshakes
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As a way to provide summertime entertainment (let’s face it in this economy, we’re not going on a vacation this year) and still provide the kids with a learning experience, we’ve decided to recreate each of the 67 recipes found in the June/July issue of Food Network magazine. I’m thinking of this as teaching the kids to eat outside of the box.
We’ll make the recipes taking notes on ease or difficulty. We’ll also comment on the taste and will take photos of each recipe to see if our final product looks anything remotely like the ones in the magazine. So go ahead, grab a Pineapple-orange Mimosa (page 130) and join us this summer.
All of my kids are lactose intolerant. Some are worse than others (stomach cramps, diarrhea) but all have difficulty digesting anything other than a tiny amount of dairy.
As a result we never have ice-cream in the house. Sure, we have lots of popsicles and Italian ice but ice-cream, no. It’s just not worth it.
When I told the kids that we would be making Double Chocolate-Marshmallow Milkshakes they all did, well, a double take. They knew I was offering them an elusive and forbidden treat. One daughter put her hand on my forehead to see if I had a fever. Another child rallied the troops to “start now, before she changes her mind.”
Addy and Spencer were the designated milkshake makers; they carefully measured the ingredients while putting them in the blender.
With heavy cream, whole milk, chocolate sauce, chocolate ice cream and marshmallow fluff, this is not a drink for the feint hearted. The aim is to create a layered drink with the ice cream and the marshmallow fluff. Yup, that’s right; in this drink you consume ribbons of Fluff.
The recipe states that it makes enough for 4 drinks. We used it to make 8 drinks with each of us having a half glass (which was more than enough).
It’s sweet. It’s thick. It’s gooey. It’s everything that one would want in a milkshake and while I personally didn’t care too much for it (I’ve never been a chocolate lover, I know, I’m a traitor to my people) the kids gulped this recipe down.
Double Chocolate Milkshake - a big hit with the kids
So, in our family, Double Chocolate-Marshmallow Milkshakes gets high marks as an occasional forbidden treat.
1 Comment
July 11, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Thanks for sharing…looks delicious!