Thick Chocolate Oreo Milkshake
on Jul 12, 2019, Updated Aug 23, 2024
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Old-fashioned, thick, creamy, chocolatey — this is the Oreo milkshake of your childhood dreams!
Oreo milkshakes have been around pretty much since Oreos have been around. This recipe makes a milkshake that is thick and creamy and chocolatey with a simple combo of milk, ice cream, chocolate sauce, and Oreos. You can drink it with a straw, but if it’s made correctly, your cheeks will get a bit of a workout as you slurp it up.
I used chocolate ice cream to make this chocolate Oreo milkshake, but you can use vanilla ice cream for a vanilla Oreo milkshake. The better quality of ice cream you use, the better your shake will taste. Also, try a Strawberry Milkshake and a Vanilla Milkshake to keep your shake game going.
If you want to create a big old-fashioned diner vibe, serve your milkshake with a grilled cheese sandwich, a perfect burger, or a BLT. Or go crazy and make some cookies to go with — recipe suggestions below.
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Chocolate Oreo Milkshake Recipe: A thick, rich, old-fahioned milkshake studded with cookies and cream.
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What Kind of Milk to Use in Milkshakes
You can use whatever milk you want for this recipe, from 1% to whole, but in the case of a milkshake, I always think whole milk is the way to go. It’s a milkshake for Pete’s sake, not a cup of coffee. The only thing I have to ask you is for the love of god, do not use skim milk. It would be a waste of a milkshake, and even a bit of a travesty.
Chocolate Oreo Milkshake Ingredients
Three ingredients get you to an Oreo milkshake. If you want to garnish the glass with crushed Oreos, then get some peanut butter to help create the rim of crushed Oreos.
- Chocolate ice cream – You can switch the chocolate out for vanilla if you want more of a cookies and cream milkshake.
- Milk – Whole milk, please, or at least 2%. This is not a diet milkshake (there’s no such thing).
- Oreo cookies – Save some cookies to crush and garnish the milkshake.
- Chocolate sauce – Deepens the chocolate flavor of the shake.
How to Make Chocolate Oreo Milkshakes
- Blend: Put a pint of good-quality ice cream, milk, Oreo cookies, and chocolate sauce in the blender and blend them up!
- Crush the cookies: Place the rest of the Oreos in a bag and break them into chunks or crumbs.
- Serve: Pour the milkshakes into two large glasses and top with the crushed Oreos. Or, decorate the glasses with crushed cookies around the rim (see below).
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You can also serve this in 4 smaller glasses for more moderately-sized milkshakes.
Decorating the Rim of the Milkshake Glass
To turn your milkshake into a masterpiece (think Black Tap Crazy Shake Milkshakes!) all you have to do is to smear the rim of a glass with peanut butter, then roll it around in crushed Oreos. Put the glass in the freezer until you are ready to serve it, so the Oreos stay put. It will soften as you slurp your way through and then you can nibble the chunks of Oreo from the rim. Don’t let them sit at room temperature too long — they will melt fairly quickly.
And you can also fill the glasses halfway with the shake, and then drizzle or squirt a bit more chocolate sauce into the glass right against the sides so it shows through the glass, and then fill up the rest of the glass with this thick, creamy Oreo milkshake.
Milkshake Variations
- I used chocolate ice cream, but you could use vanilla and make a Cookies and Cream Vanilla Oreo Milkshake. Other flavors I am considering for future Oreo shakes: Dulce de Leche, Salted Caramel, anything malted, anything with coffee as a base. And I think we’ll have to give strawberry or raspberry ice cream a go as well!
- Add a tablespoon or two of peanut butter to the shake itself for a Chocolate Peanut Butter Oreo Milkshake.
What to Serve With Chocolate Oreo Milkshakes
If you’re going all out, you may want to make some homemade cookies! I know, I know…this is ridiculously indulgent. This is the type of food for which you have to be an active teenager to justify more than once or twice a year, but boy is it a treat.
More No-Bake Chocolate Recipes
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream Pie
- Easy Chocolate Mousse
- Chocolate, Peanut, and Pretzel No-Bake Haystack Cookies
- Chocolate Peanut Cornflake Crunch
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares
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Thick Chocolate Oreo Milkshake
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pint chocolate or vanilla ice cream
- 1 cup milk
- 8 Oreo cookies (or any type of chocolate sandwich cookie; plus 2 more for garnish)
- 1 tablespoon chocolate sauce
Instructions
- If you want to decorate the rim of the glass with crushed Oreos, see the instructions in the Note.
- Place the ice cream, milk, 8 Oreo cookies, and the chocolate sauce in a blender and puree until smooth.
- Crush the remaining Oreo cookies by placing them in a zipper-sealed plastic bag and pounding on them a few times with a rolling pin until they break into chunks.
- Pour the milkshakes into two large glasses, and top each with crushed Oreo cookies. Serve the shakes immediately, with a straw.
Notes
- To turn your milkshake into a masterpiece all you have to do is to smear the rim of a glass with peanut butter, then roll it around in crushed Oreos. Put the glass in the freezer until you are ready to serve it, so the Oreos stay put. It will soften as you slurp your way through and then you can nibble off the chunks of Oreo from the rim. Don’t let them sit at room temperature too long—they will melt fairly quickly.
- You can also fill the glasses halfway with the shake, and then drizzle or squirt a bit more chocolate sauce into the glass right against the sides so it shows through the glass, and then fill up the rest of the glass with this thick, creamy Oreo milkshake.
- I used chocolate ice cream, but you could use vanilla and make a Cookies and Cream Vanilla Oreo Milkshake. Other flavors I am considering for future Oreo shakes: Dulce de Leche, Salted Caramel, anything malted, anything with coffee as a base. And I think we’ll have to give strawberry or raspberry ice cream a go as well. Add a tablespoon or two of peanut butter to the shake itself for a chocolate Peanut Butter Oreo Milkshake.
- You can use whatever milk you want for this recipe, from 1% to whole, but in the case of a milkshake I always think whole milk is the way to go.
