Mint Chocolate Graveyard Milkshakes
You will want to dig into these delicious graveyard milkshakes immediately! A mint chocolate milkshake that is decorated to look like a spooky Halloween graveyard. This easy to make recipe is the perfect way to add a little bit of spookiness to your day.
These gruesome graveyard milkshakes are an absolute treat
Halloween is a great time for creating fun and spooky themed desserts and treats. Last year we had these creepy bloody milkshakes, dripping in an edible fake blood. This year we have gone fully “wake the dead” themed with spooky graveyard themed milkshakes! A mint chocolate milkshake base that is so dark and rich with a delicious peppermint flavor. Topped with some green whipped cream and crumbly mint aero chocolate to look like crumpled dirt and grass. These can be left simple or decorated even further with bones, worms and cute Halloween themed straws to make them even spookier. Perfect for a party or a night at home with a scary movie. These graveyard milkshakes are not only delicious but they are easy to make too.
Ingredients
- Mint chocolate sauce – This recipe includes the method to make a delicious homemade mint chocolate, hot fudge style sauce. For a quick substitution you can flavor a store brought chocolate sauce with a little bit of peppermint essence. Make sure that you taste test your sauce to make sure that the peppermint will be strong enough when it is added to the milkshake but not so strong that it is overpowering.
- Chocolate ice cream – Use a good quality chocolate ice cream that you like the flavor of. Homemade chocolate ice cream is great for an extra special treat too.
- Milk – Whole milk is best for making milkshakes but feel free to use a lighter option if that is what you have on hand.
- Whipped cream – Whip up your own by whisking together 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream with 1 tablespoon of icing sugar. Add a few drops of food coloring to achieve a nice green color. You could also use pre-made whipped cream.
- Toppings – Mint chocolate aero is the absolute best topping for these milkshakes. When you chop it up and sprinkle it on top, it looks like grassy grave dirt. You could also top your milkshakes with crushed oreos, sprinkles, gummy worms, shaped chocolates or even serve them with these adorable shortbread bone cookies.
How to make mint chocolate graveyard milkshakes
Prepare your chocolate sauce early and allow it to cool down. Your sauce is made by heating all of your ingredients together in a small saucepan until smooth, thick and glossy.
Drizzle some chocolate sauce around the insides of 4 chilled milkshake glasses. Then set up your preparation station with whipped cream and any extra toppings you would like to add.
Blend together the ice cream, milk and some of your prepared chocolate sauce in a large blender. Blend until smooth.
Next pour your milkshakes into your glasses. Dollop the whipped cream on top and sprinkle over any other decorations that you like.
Serve, share and enjoy!
Tips and tricks for making graveyard milkshakes
- Chill your glasses. This will help keep your milkshake cool for longer and will also make your chocolate sauce drip more slowly down the sides of your glass.
- Add some extra fun toppings and decorations. Oreos, sprinkles, Halloween candies and chocolates are all great decorating options. Add a decorative Halloween straw or other fun toppers like plastic skeletons or bones. These bone cookies look great dipped into your milkshake. You could even make some graveyard brownies to serve your milkshake as a freak shake!
- Tweak the ice cream to milk ratio to suit your preferences. For an extra thick milkshake add more ice cream and less milk. For a thinner milkshake reduce the ice cream amount and add more milk. Just bear in mind that the more ice cream you add the sweeter your milkshake will end up.
- The chocolate sauce will make more than enough for 4 milkshakes. Store any leftover sauce in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. It is great reheated and drizzled over homemade brownies or ice cream. You can even use it to make some more graveyard milkshakes!
Ingredients
Method
- In a medium sized saucepan, sieve your cocoa and mix it together with your sugar. This will ensure that your sauce will be perfectly smooth and have no cocoa lumps.
- Add your cream and butter into the saucepan
- Heat your sauce on a medium heat, stirring regularly until the butter is melted and the sugar is fully dissolved. This will take about 1-2 minutes.
- Reduce the heat slightly and simmer your sauce, stirring constantly. Continue until your sauce is thick and glossy. It should be about the thickness of golden syrup. This step should take about 3-5 minutes.
- Remove the sauce from the heat and mix through your peppermint essence. Set aside to cool making your milkshakes
- Set up a station with 4 large, chilled milkshake glasses. Drizzle some of the extra mint chocolate sauce all over the inside of your glasses don’t be too fussy it will look best if it is on the messier side. Make some green colored whipped creaming whipped cream, dice up your aero chocolate and set out any other decorations that you would like to use.
- Add your ice cream, milk and chocolate sauce into a large blender.
- Blend until your milkshake is a smooth even consistency.
- Pour your prepared milkshake into the glasses, avoiding the edges as you pour.
- Dollop the whipped cream on top and then sprinkle over a generous helping of your aero chocolate and any other toppings that you like.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
Store any leftover sauce in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read through my mint chocolate graveyard milkshakes recipe. I hope you enjoy trying this out for yourself. Please feel free to add any questions or comments below. I am happy to help out wherever possible and I would love to hear how this recipe worked out for you.
