Easy {McDonald's Copycat} Shamrock Shake Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What are the ingredients of a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's? ›

What's in the classic Shamrock Shake? According to the McDonald's website, the Shamrock shake consists of three parts: vanilla reduced fat ice cream, Shamrock Shake syrup, and whipped light cream.

According to the fast food chain, the secret ingredient in the Shamrock Shake is #cbf2ac, which is the hex code that gives the treat its minty green color.

Initially, the shake was lemon/lime flavored with vanilla ice cream, lemon/lime sherbet, and vanilla syrup. By 1973, the shake was merely a green colored vanilla shake, eliminating the lemon/lime sherbet. It is now mint flavored.

The only thing making this concoction — a “smooth and creamy mint-flavored shake,” according to McDonald's — green is the combination of two artificial food dyes known as Yellow 5 and Blue 1.

(NEXSTAR) – Being one of the few green things on the McDonald's menu, it's always a notable event when the Shamrock Shake makes its annual appearance. The shake, made from vanilla soft serve and minty syrup, first debuted at U.S. McDonald's locations in 1970.

Obviously the Shamrock Shake is made with some sort of unnatural mint flavoring, although the ingredients on McDonald's website says it contains “natural flavor (plant source)” with those curious use of parentheses.

Contains: MILK. Ingredients: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Water, Sugar, Natural Flavor, Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Yellow 5, Blue 1. May contain small amounts of other shake flavors served at the restaurant, including egg ingredients when Egg Nog Shakes are available.

How to make your own grandma shake. First you need half a cup of blueberries. After that, you do a quarter of a cup of raspberries. and three scoops of vanilla ice cream. Now add 1 cup of milk.

Milkshake Base

OR: Reconstituted Skimmed MILK, Sugar, Cream (MILK), Skimmed MILK Powder, Glucose Syrup, Whey Powder (MILK), Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Locust Bean Gum), Natural Flavouring.

It's Shamrock Shake time. The seasonal green mint-flavored milkshake is making its return to McDonalds restaurants across the country, including Kentucky.

How much is a Shamrock Shake? ›

The shamrock shake price range between the three sizes cost between $4.19 and $4.69. The oreo shamrock mcflurry cost $4.89. The price of the shamrock shake makes it very much worth the purchase considering it is only available for a couple of months during the shamrock shake season.

The original shamrock may have been Trifolium dubium (yellow clover or lesser trefoil) or Trifolium repens (white clover). Legend holds that St. Patrick used the three clover leaflets to explain the Christian concept of the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—to the Irish people in the fourth century.

But now, as at least a somewhat more responsible adult, it's hard to enjoy the treat knowing just how unhealthy it really is. In a small Shamrock Shake from McDonald's, there are 500 calories, 14 grams of fat, 82 grams of carbs and 63 grams of sugar. That's just a small.

It's Shamrock Shake time. The seasonal green mint-flavored milkshake is making its return to McDonalds restaurants across the country, including Indiana.

Nutritional Information

Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor, Mono And Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate.

The Grimace Shake was a berry-flavored milkshake sold at McDonald's restaurants in the United States from June 12 to July 9, 2023. The Grimace shake celebrated the 52nd birthday of Grimace, the purple milkshake-loving character from McDonaldland.