I did find a few new mixes that I totally forgot about.Here are two.
Milkshake Base v1.2
CAP Milkshake 3%
Cap Vanilla Milk Froth 1.5%
VTA Vanilla Ice Cream 1%
VTA Milkshake Base 0.5%
Chocolate Milkshake v3.05 (the above with the following)
VTA Dark Chocolate 4%
VTA White Chocolate Base 1%
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Steeping: suggested 3-4 weeks - as always YMMV
This is my third go at a flavorful chocolate milkshake. My previous two (in Zazie's blog) are good but I always felt those could be improved. It took me a good amount of time to get this one tweaked to where I was happy and felt good about posting the recipe.
The Milkshake Base is a nice creamy milkshake 'as is'. It is a neutral vanilla milkshake that will work well with nearly any additional flavors. I am very impressed with Capella's new Milkshake and Vanilla Milk Froth flavors. IMO, they are awesome!
Initially I had the milkshake base recipe without VTA Milkshake Base. It was a flavorful milkshake however it was missing that unique malt flavor. I added only 0.5% knowing full well from past experience that VTA MB is highly concentrated. It is a flavor that will easily dominate a mix unless other flavor percentages compensate. In this mix VTA MB brought a pleasant, but very light, malt flavor without overtaking the other flavors. It was the missing ingredient for my base.
Adding chocolate was a breeze after I got the milkshake base down.
Going in, VTA Dark Chocolate was always my choice for this mix as I am able to 'bend' it to my liking. On its own it is an excellent, and very accurate, dark chocolate flavor and one of my favorites. In my testing, over multiple mixes, other chocolate flavors did not offer the flexibility that VTA DC does.
I didn't want the milkshake to have a chocolate that leaned heavily into dark chocolate. That's where VTA White Chocolate Base comes in. Using VTA WCB I am able to turn VTA DC into something other than a dark chocolate. I use it mainly as a volume control, if you will, for shaping VTA DC.
VTA WCB can be used higher if one wanted even less of a dark chocolate note (as in, 1.5% - 2%). That will turn VTA DC into something closer to a milk chocolate (closer, but not a 100% MC).
Adding one of the following flavors will work nicely. A raspberry, a banana, a cherry, coconut or another chocolate compatible fruit flavor. The addition of a cookie or a cake will offer more complexity and texture.
Some caramel would be a nice touch. Adding a coffee or tiramisu flavor (lightly) would deliver a nice Coffee Milkshake. One of the nut flavors will work in a milkshake as a topping. Light use of WF Crumble Topping would also work as a more generic topping.
Any one, or two, of the above flavors (depending which and how much) will work fine without turning the mix into a jumbled mess.
The available flavor landscape opens up significantly using only the Milkshake Base as a launch pad. One would not be boxed into using chocolate compatible flavors.
@Zazie can you please add these to your blog as two recipes? One as Milkshake Base v1.2 and the other as Chocolate Milkshake v3.05? Thank you muchly!
I don’t have Vta Vanilla ice cream. I have nine other ones. How critical is that to the recipe?
