Las Vegas Weekly

Flavorful fancy with Burger Bar’s custom milkshakes

Recipe for Burger Bar’s DIY milkshakes: Take ice cream, choose from more than 60 ingredients, blend and enjoy.

Illustration: Bethany Acree

Milk and cookies are so last year. Cookies in your milkshake? Boring. But a Jägermeister, Nutella and marshmallow cream all-ice cream milkshake to top off your classic burger and fries?

With Burger Bar’s new dessert menu, the possibilities seem endless.

Hubert Keller’s Mandalay Bay burger joint has extended its do-it-yourself philosophy from burgers to desserts. Now, not only can you customize the perfect burger by picking your protein and toppings, customers can choose to concoct their own all-ice cream milkshakes using more than 60 ingredients, among them Ho Hos, pineapple, gummy bears, Nutella and, yes, even Jagermeister and Chambord.

If you lack the culinary savvy to create your own mouthwatering masterpiece, don’t fret. Burger Bar’s menu includes chef specials, such as Caramel Latte (coffee ice cream, caramel syrup, Graham crackers and butterscotch morsels) and the Cosmo (strawberry ice cream, Cointreau, Vodka Citron and strawberries).

The menu even includes a vegan dessert, which substitutes ice cream with raspberry sorbet and pairs it with cranberry juice, red berries and toasted almonds. It will go great with your juicy burger…which can also be made meat product-free.

A handful of brews have also been matched with ice cream to create ale-inspired floats that put root beer to shame. Add a scoop of strawberry ice cream to that Blue Moon or top your pint of Guinness with coffee ice cream.

Ice cream and alcohol, now, that’s a pairing that just feels right.

Milkshakes start at $7, with mix-ins ranging from 15 cents to $30 (for the 150-year old Grand Marnier). A small price to pay for sweet tooth satisfaction