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Caramel Apple Pie Milkshake

Loaded with creamy vanilla ice cream, apple chunks, salted caramel sauce and cinnamon graham crackers, this milkshake will remind you of your favorite dessert, in shake form!

This recipe’s ingredient list has no crust or pastry, so it bakes more like a fruit dish than a pastry pie.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,586 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Crush the graham crackers into coarse crumbs in a zip-top bag with a rolling pin or by hand, and set aside about a quarter of the crumbs for topping.

  2. Chill two serving glasses in the freezer for 10 minutes. Drizzle the inside of each glass with a little of the caramel sauce and press some of the remaining crumbs against the sides.

  3. Add the ice cream, milk, diced apple, cinnamon, the rest of the caramel sauce and the unreserved crumbs to a blender. Blend 30 to 45 seconds until smooth and thick.

  4. Pour the milkshake into the prepared glasses. Top with the reserved crumbs and extra cinnamon if desired, then serve right away with a straw or spoon.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Vanilla + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,501 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,647 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs