Here’s a fun birthday themed recipe: Birthday Cake Milkshakes
If there is a birthday coming up for a certain someone you know… a someone who enjoys being surprised with goodies, then a birthday milkshake is the way to go. It’s a treat filled to the brim with an M&M’S cake batter milkshake, and the rim is adorned with the most delicious garnish ever.
White frosting is rubbed on the edge of the rims of the glasses. A birthday cake treat wouldn’t be complete without frosting, would it?
To make these an extra special treat, M&M’S are dotted into the frosting. YES, this means you’ll get to eat both the frosting and the M&M’S as you sip your birthday cake milkshake!
Blend up the milkshake mixture until it’s nice and creamy– the M&M’S in the milkshake will grind down and add a chocolatey flavor.
Then fill your beautifully adorned glasses with milkshake!
To make these extra fun, I poked mini cupcakes through festive straws and dotted those with M&M’S too. I just used store-bought mini cupcakes to make things super easy. A little curly ribbon tied to the straws helped keep the cupcakes in place.
This is definitely the ultimate birthday treat: a cupcake, a milkshake, frosting, and M&M’S!
If you’re a lover of M&M’s, you might also like to try our Samoa M&M Blondies, Monster Cookies and Oatmeal Jumbos.
Birthday Cake Milkshakes
Ingredients
MILKSHAKE GLASSES
- canned white frosting
- M&M'S
MILKSHAKES
- 4 extra large scoops vanilla ice cream
- ½ to ¾ cup milk
- ⅔ cup white cake mix
- ⅓ cup M&M'S
OPTIONAL GARNISHES
- mini-cupcakes
- additional M&M'S
- fun straws
Instructions
- Prepare your milkshake glasses first: Use a knife to edge the tops of your glasses with about 1 inch of frosting. Press M&M'S into the frosting to create a trail of candies around the tops of the glasses.
- Prepare the milkshakes: Place ice cream, ½ cup milk, cake mix and M&M'S in a blender. Blend until smooth, adding a little more milk if too thick.
- Fill milkshake glasses and garnish with fancy straws. Add mini cupcakes punched through the straws, if desired (just use sharp scissors to snip a hole into the bottoms of the cupcake liners).
Notes
- You can certainly make a bunch of mini milkshakes for a party, if you'd like. Just use smaller glasses or cups and follow the same instructions.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Why do you put the cake mix in the milkshake?
…to make it taste like birthday cake!