Easy Strawberry Milkshake

This easy strawberry milkshake recipe is made with just 3 ingredients. It’s a rich and creamy cold treat perfect for a warm day!

Homemade Strawberry Milkshake Recipe

My family and I are just crazy about strawberries. I use these tasty little berries in strawberry desserts, strawberry salads and drinks. Sometimes, the kids and I cover them in chocolate, and sometimes, I just put big old bowl of plain berries on the counter for the kids to snack on. In the winter, I buy frozen strawberries to make strawberry breakfast smoothies, but honestly, fresh strawberries are so much better!

So when it’s strawberry season, we like to celebrate, and we kind of go overboard — but in a good way.

As much as I love making healthy smoothies, there are those days when you just gotta indulge and make something just a tiny bit richer and sweeter and way more decadent —  like a homemade milkshake. A rich, thick, frosty delicious strawberry milkshake — yum! 

You could easily hop in the car and get a strawberry shake from your local fast food place, but really, homemade milkshakes taste better — way better, especially on a hot summer day!

Simple Ingredients

You only need a handful of ingredients from the grocery store for this homemade milkshake recipe. Full amounts are in the printable recipe card below.

• Fresh strawberries — Fresh ripe strawberries add so much flavor to this frosty drink. Their natural sweetness means you don’t need extra sugar or syrups. You’ll want to rinse the fresh berries, hull them and cut them into smaller pieces. You can sub frozen berries if that’s what you have.
• Vanilla ice cream — I like real vanilla ice cream without any extra ingredients for the best taste. Vanilla is normally used in this classic recipe, but you can use strawberry ice cream for more strawberry flavor.
• Whole milk — makes the milkshake thick and creamy. 2 percent or 1 percent milk don’t work as well. You can sub heavy cream for the milk.

How to Make a Strawberry Milkshake

First, add the sliced berries to the bottom of a blender. Personally, I feel fruit blends better when added first, but that’s just me.

Next, add the scoops of vanilla ice cream and milk over the strawberries. No need to stir. Blend the ingredients for a few seconds until the mixture is well combined.

Pour the milkshake into tall glasses, and garnish with whipped cream and fresh whole strawberries on top of the milkshakes. You can make homemade whipped cream if you want to go all out. Add thick drinking straws and enjoy the best strawberry milkshake you have ever tasted — the perfect treat!

Milkshake Making Tips

Shakes stay colder longer if the glasses are nice and frosty, so I’ll usually stick a couple of tall glasses or mason jars in the freezer before I make the milkshakes.

Normally, I buy 2 percent milk for drinking, but whole milk is perfect for making milkshakes. It just makes them a little richer and thicker, with a smooth, creamy texture, which is what you want in a shake.

Personally, I like shakes thick enough to eat with a spoon, but if you like them slightly thinner, like my kids do, just add a little more milk or less milk if you want them super thick.

If you have leftover milkshake, you can freeze leftovers in a freezer-safe container or glass, and eat it with a spoon later!

More Milkshake Recipes

Try my mint chocolate chip milkshake or this easy peach milkshake or this Whoppers malted milkshake next.

The kids love ’em, and sometimes they’ll even let me have a sip or two. Yep, they’re real generous like that! But that’s fine. I know where the good chocolate is hidden! 

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Recipe originally posted in 2016 and updated in 2024.