Salted Caramel Pretzel Milkshake
A sweet-and-salty milkshake made with caramel ice cream, salted caramel sauce, and crunchy pretzel pieces.
- Prep
- 6min
- Total
- 6min
- Serves
- 2
- Calories
- 600per serving, est.
By Time for Burgers, updated
Salt keeps this shake from tasting flat. Salted caramel sauce, salted pretzels and a pinch of flaky sea salt all go into the blender, so the caramel ice cream tastes deeper and less cloying than it would on its own.
The ratio is four parts ice cream to one part milk, thick enough to need a wide straw. Blend for 30 to 40 seconds and no longer; the pretzels should stay in small crunchy bits rather than turning to grit. Drizzle caramel inside chilled glasses before pouring so it streaks down the sides.
Salted Caramel Pretzel Milkshake
Prep 6 min, total 6 min. About 600 calories per serving.
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Serves 2.
Ingredients
Instructions
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Add 2 cups ice cream, ½ cup whole milk, 3 tbsp salted caramel sauce, 1½ oz crushed pretzels, and 2 g sea salt flakes to a blender.
Blend on medium-high speed for 30-40 seconds until smooth with small pretzel pieces throughout.
Drizzle remaining 1 tbsp caramel sauce inside 2 chilled glasses, creating decorative swirls.
Pour milkshake into prepared glasses and top with whipped cream, extra caramel drizzle, and remaining ¾ oz crushed pretzels. Serve with a thick straw.
Tips
- Let the ice cream soften on the counter for about 5 minutes. It blends faster, so the pretzels spend less time being ground down.
- For more crunch, blend everything but the pretzels, then add them and pulse for 2 or 3 seconds.
- Chill the glasses in the freezer for 10 minutes so the caramel drizzle sets on the sides instead of sliding to the bottom.
- Taste before adding the sea salt flakes. Salted caramel sauces vary a lot in how salty they are.
Substitutions
- Vanilla ice cream for caramel: add another 15 ml caramel sauce to the blender to make up the difference.
- Gluten-free pretzels: the same crunch; check the caramel sauce label too.
- Dairy-free: oat-based ice cream and oat milk, with a coconut-milk caramel sauce.
Make ahead & storage
Milkshakes don't keep: the pretzels soften within minutes and the shake melts. Crush the pretzels ahead and store them airtight at room temperature, and keep the glasses in the freezer until you blend.
