Caramel Macchiato Milkshakes

The easiest, tastiest milkshake you'll ever make with just 3 ingredients!

I first made this recipe years ago and had the world's worst picture for it. I meant to remake it time and time again and then I finally did when we moved into our new home last year. And, of course, I'm just now getting around to posting it. This is a super simple way to make a milkshake. And with the amount of different creamers out there, it could easily be switched up to make any milkshake you could think of.

Copycat Starbucks Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino

This copycat is dead on and just as lovely as the real deal. You can't go wrong with strawberries and cream!

Y'all know I am no stranger to copycat recipes. I am obsessed with them. I love finding recipes for my favorites and I love to come up with recipes for my favorites. This go-around I happened to find a recipe for my old favorite at Starbucks: Strawberries and Creme Frappuccino! I had my first Starbucks drink in Fort Gordon, Georgia when Nick was stationed there for AIT. The on-base hospital had a Starbucks in the lobby and every time Matthew (my oldest) had a doctor's appointment, I would get this drink with a chocolate chunk cookie. So it's definitely a nostalgic drink.

I have previously tried a different recipe for it, but it was nothing like the real thing and quite undrinkable, if you ask me. So I waited patiently until another recipe fell into my lap and this one is definitely a keeper. It tastes just like the real thing. It is wonderfully easy to make too. Honestly, the "hardest" part is hulling the strawberries and even that isn't too bad. This recipe does make one drink, so if you don't want to share, be sure to double, triple, quadruple, or more the recipe :)

Drinks Week: Strawberry Nutella Milkshakes

I am so so late on the Nutella craze, but I am coming around slowly but surely. I love strawberry milkshakes and thought that it could not be more genius to add Nutella to them. Genius and SO good. These are dangerously addictive milkshakes and you'll be sorely disappointed if you don't make them as soon as possible!

Drinks Week: Peppermint Mocha Milkshake for One

New York is not my favorite place to live. In fact, it's my least favorite. The winters are long and miserable and the summers...well...they are just as bad. It's been cloudy and raining for most of the summer so far. There are days where it is in the 50s. This week looks like it's finally in the 80s. I think one thing that keeps me going is that we're getting close to counting down our LAST YEAR in this state...and then we get to go home to Tennessee.

So when I'm bummed and the weather is crappy, I turn to chocolate anything. Ice cream is always close to the top of the list of chocolate..and let's face it...coffee is always welcome. I've been wanting to try this recipe from How Sweet It Is for so long, but I don't like sharing and I didn't feel like making two once my husband stole a drink of mine. Deployment is when I take advantage of my stinginess :) I doubled the coffee powder and drank it right up. So delicious!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Milkshake

For Christmas this last year, my husband and I decided to do homemade gifts. We ended up choosing to give his little sister, Emma, a recipe "book" of all our favorite drink recipes. She has seen me posting my frappuccinos and milkshakes. She always comments on them and tells me I need to make them when we come home. So my thought process was...the house has a blender, she is more than capable of making drinks like this on her own - it'd be perfect to have all these recipes at her fingertips whenever she has a craving!

This was one of the beverages that made it's way into Emma's book. I happily devoured it. I am so bad for buying a bag of Chips Ahoy mini chocolate chip cookies and eating the whole bag in a sitting. I mean, I do this all the time. It's horrifying. But they are so addictive! Because I didn't have regular sized cookies, I used the minis in this and they also made the perfect garnish.

Pumpkin Pie Milkshake

I am in love with pumpkin anything. I have an entirely too large hoarding collection of pumpkin recipes and I've been trying to make as many as possible while it is in season. Plus I have discovered that Matthew, my 5 year old, is a pumpkin fiend like his momma :)

This milkshake seriously does taste just like a pumpkin pie. It's incredibly rich and delicious!

Cupcake Milkshakes + Giveaway Winners

First off, not gonna keep y'all waiting - the winners of my giveaway are...

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I will be emailing y'all shortly (and maybe even tweeting)! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who entered and for helping me get where I am today. I love being able to share my love of food!

Speaking of love of food...
I have been stalking following Kristan from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen's blog since I started blogging. I love her sense of humor. She posts the most delicious looking treats. She started a super hilarious and sometimes informative website called That's What We Said with her bff, Shelly, of Cookies & Cups (another super amazing blog!). If you love to laugh and you love to drool over sweets, visit her blog (and Shelly's)!

I think this is actually the very first recipe I've made of Kristan's and that's really shocking to me. However, it couldn't have been a better recipe to start out with! I cannot express to you all just how much this tastes like a CUPCAKE in a glass. Oh my gawsh! I doubled the recipe for myself and put mine in a mason jar - 'cause I'm classy like that! Make it now! Make it! :)

CCC: Blueberry Cheesecake Milkshake

June is Fruit Smoothie/Shake month!

I had a little more trouble this month finding a good recipe from a blog. I had plenty from Kraft or Betty Crocker, etc. In fact, my first smoothie/shake was a Kraft recipe that I will be sharing next Wednesday. I was lucky to stumble upon Lauren's Strawberry Cheesecake Milkshake right after my oopsie shake was made. Be still my heart! Anything cheesecake is just fabulous in my book!! And if you haven't heard of Lauren's Latest or you don't follow it, GO DO IT NOW!! Lauren is completely hilarious and she keeps it real :)

I also decided to switch up the recipe, ever so slightly. I had just discovered one of Ben & Jerry's limited edition flavors of ice cream...Blueberry Cheesecake. So I've been craving blueberry cheesecake! I will be trying Lauren's milkshake in its original form very soon, but for today - I made the blueberry version of it.

{Half of my inspiration}

I will be hopping around today - stumbling, pinning, tweeting, and FB-ing lots of entries :)

{To vote for my recipe: click on #26 below in the linky list}

Copycat Wendy's Frosty

Update: 2/24/13 - finally got a picture of this one. It's a great recipe to make when you are craving a Wendy's frosty.

This was SO good! I seriously am in love with copycat recipes :)

Copycat Shamrock Shake

Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day - these are super simple and super delicious :)