Milkshakes can serve as an appetiser (a really yummy one), paving a good entrance for the main course or it can serve as a dessert, a perfect ending to your meal.

Like smoothies, milkshake is basically about bringing together and blending different ingredients together to form make a drink of it. With no cooking at all and minimal prep time, you can tweak and prepare any flavour of milkshake you desire with just a few easy-to-get ingredients. Here are 5 homemade milkshake recipe you should try.

1. Chocolate milkshake

To achieve a very rich chocolate milkshake, add milk, cocoa powder, sugar, coffee cream, vanilla extract and ice cubes in a blender and blend till it becomes chunky.

2. Vanilla milkshake

With vanilla ice cream, milk and vanilla extracts, you'll have your vanilla milkshake swimming down your glass.

3. Banana cream milkshake

The classic milkshake made with banana, milk and scoops of vanilla ice cream with this deliciously rich taste is perfect for a spoonable dessert.

4. Peanut butter Brownie milkshake

This creamy and yummy milkshake is made by blending some brownie, peanut butter and milk. Crumble some of the brownies on it and enjoy!

5. Strawberry shortcake milkshake

You're sure going to have your cake and drink it with this milkshake. Strawberry shortcake is a combination of strawberry ice cream, milk, fresh strawberries and of course a piece of cake (say red velvet).