Cookie Monster Shake
Blue cookie milkshake rebuilt as a shaker-bottle drink with powdered milk and instant pudding.
- calories
- 520
- weight
- 4 oz
- cal / oz
- 130
- protein
- 13 g
- serves
- 1, scales
- prep
- 5 min
- cook
- 0 min
- total time
- 5 min
- water
- 350 ml cold
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Dessert
- Drink
- No cook
- Car camping
- Backpacking
- Basecamp
- Canoe / raft
- Vegetarian
- Eat in the bag
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Dump and stir
Ingredients
| Whole milk powder | 1/3 cup | nonfat works but the shake comes out thin |
|---|---|---|
| Instant vanilla pudding mix | 3 tbsp | the thickener that replaces ice cream |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp | |
| Chocolate sandwich cookies | 4 | crushed, one kept whole for the top |
| Chocolate chip cookies | 2 | broken into pieces |
| Blue gel food coloring | 1 small drop | gel, not liquid, or you water it down |
| Blue sprinkles | 1 tsp | optional |
| Cold water | 350 ml |
Method
- Put the milk powder, pudding mix, and sugar in a wide-mouth bottle. Add about half the water and shake for twenty seconds so nothing clumps.
- Add the rest of the water and the drop of gel coloring. Shake again until the color is even.
- Let it sit five minutes. The pudding mix needs that time to set up into something spoonable.
- Crush most of the cookies in their bag with the heel of your hand and stir them in.
- Top with the whole cookie and the sprinkles. Drink it or eat it with a spoon depending on how long you waited.
This started as a blender drink built on ice cream, which is three things the trail does not have: a blender, a freezer, and fresh milk. Whole milk powder and instant vanilla pudding mix do the same job cold. The pudding is the important part — it has enough starch and gum to thicken plain water into something with body, so you get a shake instead of blue milk.
Use gel coloring, not the liquid kind. A drop of gel colors the whole bottle without adding volume, and it weighs nothing. Add the cookies last and drink it soon after; leave it half an hour and the pudding sets hard enough to stand a spoon in.
Packing
Milk powder, pudding mix, and sugar go in one bag together. Cookies ride in a separate rigid container or you arrive with dust. The coloring gel is a tiny tube, not a bottle.
Variations
- Skip the coloring entirely and it is a cookies-and-cream shake that no one has to explain.
- With a cooler, use half ice water and it comes out closer to the original.
- A scoop of vanilla protein powder in place of the sugar pushes it past 25 g of protein.
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