Whataburger Mexican Hot Chocolate Shake Recipe

Whataburger's Mexican Hot Chocolate Shake is a chocolate shake flavoured with cinnamon, sold for a limited time from January 2025. At home, blend three cups of vanilla ice cream with half a cup of milk, a quarter cup of chocolate syrup, cinnamon and a pinch of cayenne for half a minute, and top the two shakes with whipped cream.

What the Whataburger shake was

Whataburger brought it out for its 75th anniversary. Verdict Food Service reported on 6 January 2025 that the chain would introduce a Mexican Hot Chocolate Coffee and Shake from 7 January, as limited-time items, carrying the traditional chocolate and cinnamon flavours into a hot and a cold drink.

Chocolate and cinnamon are the two flavours named. The cayenne in this copy is this site's addition and can be left out. MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Whataburger.

Recipe

Mexican Hot Chocolate Shake

A reconstruction of Whataburger's Mexican Hot Chocolate Shake — vanilla ice cream blended with milk, chocolate syrup and cinnamon, with a pinch of cayenne. Two shakes.

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Prep

5 min

Total

5 min

Serves

2

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 3 cups vanilla ice cream
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup heavy cream, whipped (about 1/2 cup)

Instructions

1. Put the ice cream, the milk, the chocolate syrup, the cinnamon, the cayenne and the vanilla in a blender.
2. Blend on low speed for 20 to 30 seconds, just until smooth. Stop while the shake is still thick.
3. Pour into two glasses, top with the whipped cream and dust with a pinch of cinnamon.

Nutrition

Calories:

655

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.

Thick enough for a spoon

• Hard ice cream, cold milk. Softened ice cream gives a thin shake.
• Low speed, half a minute. A blender warms what it blends. Stop as soon as the last lump is gone.
• More or less milk. The half cup gives a shake that pours slowly. A quarter cup gives one for a spoon.

Chocolate syrup, or Mexican chocolate

Bottled chocolate syrup dissolves at once. For a deeper chocolate, melt 2 ounces of Mexican-style chocolate, the kind sold in tablets with sugar and cinnamon already in it, in the half cup of milk, let it cool completely and leave out the syrup and half of the cinnamon.

The cinnamon needs the half minute in the blender to spread. Stirred in by hand, it floats.

The hot version

Whataburger sold a coffee alongside the shake. For a hot Mexican chocolate without coffee, warm 2 cups of milk with 1/4 cup of chocolate syrup, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and the pinch of cayenne, whisking until it steams. For a cold coffee drink made with milk, see the Dunkalatte.

Other frozen drinks on this site are the Dr Pepper shake and the Thin Mint Frosty.