Homemade bacon milkshake
A bacon milkshake, you may have heard by now, is not a bacon-fueled hoax but an actual drink. It鈥檚 kind of an 鈥渋n the know鈥� thing, because you have to ask for it by name at Jack in the Box restaurants since they don鈥檛 feature it on their menus.
We got curious about this at CSMonitor.com and immediately began聽researching this latest fast-food fad. It turns out the Jack in the Box 鈥渂acon milkshake鈥� actually contains no bacon. Big surprise.
As appetizing as this sounds, we couldn鈥檛 do our own taste test because the closest Jack in the Box is more than 900 miles away. I got to thinking, if Jack in the Box was using fake syrup flavoring, what would the real thing taste like?
So I conducted a few experiments and tested them out on my friends. To our surprise, a homemade bacon milkshake is actually quite delicious!
If you can get past the initial聽鈥撀�ew聽鈥� factor when you imagine bacon swimming around in ice cream, you really can鈥檛 lose with the flavors of salty bacon, sweet maple syrup, smokey toasted walnuts, and rich vanilla bean ice cream.
Bottoms up!
Homemade bacon milkshake
Serves 2
4-6 pieces of bacon (depending on your bacon threshold), cooked
1/4 cup walnuts, toasted
6-7 scoops of vanilla bean ice cream
1/8 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup milk
Cook bacon in a frying pan on the stove top until good and crispy. Drain on a paper-towel covered plate and allow to cool. In a clean pan or a toaster oven, toast the walnuts.
In a food processor, grind the bacon and walnuts together until fine.
In a blender, combine bacon, walnuts, ice cream, maple syrup, and milk and blend until smooth. You may want to adjust the milk and/or ice cream to satisfy your shake-thickness preference.
Divide into two tall glasses, insert a straw into each glass, and serve immediately.
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