Carnation® Malted Milk Powder is a product we used twenty years ago and earlier to make the finest milk shakes you might imagine. Then the product started disappearing from supermarket shelves. A few weeks ago I visited the only supermarket in the area that carried the malted milk powder, only to learn that even they no longer sold it.

I used to get quite frustrated when I couldn't find products I needed due to supermarket inventory management decisions. Then, along came Amazon®, and suddenly a whole new world of food choices became easily available. Yes, I found Carnation® Malted Milk Powder for sale on Amazon® in a larger container size than I had ever seen in a supermarket, yet not really all that large (42 ounces vs. 14 ounces).

I noted that Amazon® also had three other brands that I never heard of, and I liked that a lot! Suffice it to say that I bought the Carnation® product in the larger size and I am loving having it available now for ice creams and different milk shakes, including vanilla and strawberry. The point is that I didn't have any malted milk type of recipe in Food Nirvana before now due to the difficulty I had finding a local source for the malted milk powder.

Oh, as always, watch out for the shysters on Amazon® who will sell you a small amount of product for a high price. I paid 57 cents per ounce for what I bought, with free shipping.

Well, the search for good malted milk powder has now changed much for the better. I have a fine chocolate malted ice cream recipe in Food Nirvana and now I'm adding this recipe for the milk shake. Yes! Even better, I was able to buy one of the old fashioned electric mixers used at soda fountain shops in the past to make milk shakes ... a Hamilton Beach® model for a mere $29 through Amazon®.

If you've had malted milk shakes of any flavor before you know how wonderful they are compared to an ordinary milk, flavoring and ice cream milk shake.

Need I say more? Oh, yes, before I forget, I've also made vanilla and strawberry milk shakes with the malted milk powder and they too are "to die for" good. Simply use pure vanilla extract or strawberry syrup instead of the Hersheys® Chocolate Syrup.

Let's get started ...

Ingredients: (makes about 1 pint of milk shake)

4 to 6 oz. of ice cream

2 oz. of heavy cream

3 tbsp. of Carnation® Malted Milk Powder

1/4 cup of Hersheys® Chocolate Syrup or 3 tbsp. of Hersheys® Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

8 oz. of 4% butterfat milk (Vary the amount of milk based on the amount of ice cream you use. The total volume of the milk shake is to be about 16 ounces) ... more ice cream, less milk, etc.

Directions:

Simply dump all of the ingredients into a blender or, if you have one, the stainless steel mixing cup of a Hamilton Beach® milk shake mixer.

Start the blender/mixer on low speed and once the ingredients have started to mix advance the speed to high. Blend for 30 to 60 seconds at high speed.

If you are using a Hamilton Beach® type of mixer you may want to hold the cup and tilt it while the mixer is running so you can angle the cup for the agitator to connect with all of the ice cream and blend it in.

Pour the completed milkshake into one, pint size chilled glass, or, into two eight ounce size chilled glasses.

Drink slowly and make noises of great pleasure and taste satisfaction ... that will be so easy!

Tell all the people you really care about how to buy the malted milk powder and how to find this recipe, so they can please all those that they love.

What a fine ending for a recipe ...

Enjoy!