McDonald's McFlurry with OREO Cookies Recipe

A McDonald's OREO McFlurry is vanilla soft serve with pieces of OREO cookies mixed in; a regular has 410 calories. To make two at home, let three cups of vanilla ice cream soften for ten minutes, stir it with a quarter cup of milk until it is as soft as soft serve, and fold in eight broken OREO cookies. Do not use a blender.

What a McFlurry with OREO Cookies is

McDonald's describes it as vanilla soft serve with crunchy pieces of OREO cookies mixed in. It comes in two sizes, Mini and Regular, and the regular has 410 calories. The copy below comes to about 635 calories a serving: ice cream from a tub has more fat and less air than soft serve.

The McFlurry was created in 1995 by Ron McLellan, a McDonald's franchisee in Bathurst, New Brunswick. The first one was OREO-flavoured, and the dessert reached the United States in 1997. This is a reconstruction, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with McDonald's or with OREO.

Recipe

OREO McFlurry

A reconstruction of McDonald's McFlurry with OREO Cookies — softened vanilla ice cream stirred with a little milk to soft-serve texture, with broken OREO cookies folded in. Two servings.

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Prep

15 min

Total

15 min

Serves

2

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 3 cups vanilla ice cream
• 1/4 cup whole milk
• 8 OREO cookies

Instructions

1. Put two glasses or cups in the freezer. Leave the ice cream on the counter for 10 minutes, until a spoon goes in easily.
2. Break the cookies into pieces about the size of a fingernail. Do not crush them to crumbs.
3. Scoop the ice cream into a large bowl, add the milk and stir with a sturdy spoon, or with the paddle of a stand mixer, for about 1 minute, until the ice cream is smooth and as soft as soft serve.
4. Fold in the cookie pieces with a few strokes. Spoon the mixture into the cold glasses and serve at once, or freeze it for 15 minutes for a firmer texture.

Nutrition

Calories:

635

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

Why a spoon and not a blender

A McFlurry is mixed with its own spoon. According to Wikipedia, the spoon has a hole in the handle and is attached to the machine, which blends the cookies into the soft serve with it. The dessert is stirred, briefly, and stays thick.

A blender does something else. Its blades melt the ice cream and grind the cookies to dust, and the result is a grey milkshake. A sturdy spoon or a mixer paddle keeps the ice cream thick and the cookie pieces whole.

Soft-serve texture from a tub of ice cream

• Soften, do not melt. Ten minutes on the counter. Ice cream that has gone liquid at the edges turns icy when it freezes again.
• A quarter cup of milk loosens three cups of ice cream to the texture of soft serve. More than that and it pours.
• Cold glasses. The mixture is close to melting; a warm glass finishes the job.

Cookie pieces, and other mix-ins

Break the cookies by hand, or put them in a bag and press them once with a rolling pin. Pieces stay crunchy for a few minutes; crumbs go soft at once.

The same base takes other mix-ins. McDonald's sells an M&M'S McFlurry as well; a third of a cup of mini candies replaces the cookies. For homemade sandwich cookies to break up, see the Post Malone OREO cookies on this site.

More frozen desserts from the drive-through

The Wendy's Frosty is the thick chocolate one, eaten with a spoon. Dairy Queen's counterpart is the Blizzard; this site has the cookie crunch Blizzard. For ice cream made from scratch there is the Gold Medal Ribbon.