Instructions
- Combine strawberries, ice cream, and milk in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour the milkshake into 2 tall glasses and serve at once.
Strawberry Milkshake is about as simple as a dessert drink gets, just fresh strawberries, vanilla ice cream, and milk blended together until smooth. What makes it work is the balance between the strawberries’ natural tartness and the ice cream’s sweetness, so it never tips too far into cloying territory, and the milk keeps the whole thing pourable rather than turning into more of a thick shake you’d need a spoon for. Using fresh strawberries instead of frozen gives it a brighter, more natural fruit flavor, though the recipe holds up fine with frozen ones in a pinch. At two minutes start to finish, it’s the kind of drink you make on a hot afternoon without really thinking about it, and it tastes like it took more effort than it actually did.
