Chick-fil-A Adds New Banana Pudding Milkshake for Spring

Editor Note:  Just what I need!  Another phenom reason just to stop in and grab a fresh taste for spring.  Banana Pudding Milkshake?  Can't wait to try one!
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Customers encouraged to share family banana pudding recipes and stories on Chick-fil-A's Facebook Page

 /PRNewswire/ -- For many Americans, a banana pudding recipe isn't just a recipe. It's an institution. A good serving of banana pudding provides the perfect comfort-food remedy to a long day at work, and avid banana pudding enthusiasts claim that the delectable dessert is even known to cure a headache. Starting Monday, Feb. 28, customers can satiate their cravings for the Southern classic with the new Banana Pudding Milkshake available in Chick-fil-A® restaurants nationwide through June 4.
With a taste sure to evoke memories of your grandmother's best recipe, the new Banana Pudding Milkshake will be offered in 14 oz. or 20 oz. cups and priced at $2.49 and $2.89, respectively (at most locations). The milkshake is made with fresh bananas, real Nilla® wafers, a splash of vanilla, and is hand-spun with Chick-fil-A's popular "home-style" Icedream® and topped with light whipped cream and a maraschino cherry.

To celebrate the new milkshake recipe, Chick-fil-A is inviting customers to submit their favorite heirloom or family banana pudding recipes and the story behind them on the chain's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ChickfilA.

"As we continue to offer limited time flavor milkshakes, we ask customers what flavors they would like served at Chick-fil-A. Again and again, customers said 'banana something.' We wanted to offer something unique, yet connected to our Southern roots, instead of the typical banana milkshake option. In the South, banana pudding reigns supreme as one of the favorite traditional desserts, most commonly associated with family. Our new Banana Pudding Milkshake is like drinking your grandmother's recipe through a straw," said Woody Faulk, Chick-fil-A's vice president of brand development. "Our customers continue to tell us how much they enjoy our hand-spun milkshakes, so we want to continue to satisfy their tastes while also surprising them with occasional limited-time new flavors!"

The Chick-fil-A hand-spun milkshakes have proved to be one of the most popular products on the menu. As a result, the chain adds a variety of limited-time flavors to its milkshake menu annually.

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Simple Desserts Will Have Them Clamoring For S'More

(NAPSI)-The next time you seek a weekday treat or a nice homemade dessert to serve friends who drop by, consider serving something sweet and simple such as pudding. It can be made in a snap with ingredients you have on hand. One to try is S'More Pudding, made with corn starch, an essential ingredient in puddings, cake and pie fillings.

S'More Pudding

Yield: 6 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Microwave Time: 6 to 8 minutes

Chill Time: 2 hours

⅔ cup sugar

3 tablespoons cocoa powder

2 tablespoons Argo® Corn Starch

¼ teaspoon salt

2 cups milk

2 egg yolks

2 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup marshmallow cream

½-¾ cup graham cracker crumbs

Mix sugar, cocoa powder, corn starch and salt in a large microwave-safe bowl. Whisk in milk and egg yolks until well blended. Microwave on high (100 percent) power for about 5 to 7 minutes, stirring every 1 to 2 minutes. Cook until pudding is thick and has boiled at least 1 minute. Remove from microwave. Stir in butter and vanilla. Cover surface with plastic wrap. Chill 2 hours. Layer pudding, marshmallow cream and graham cracker crumbs in individual clear bowls or stemware.

Corn starch is often mixed with flour to produce more tender baked goods and perform like cake flour. For each cup of cake flour called for in a recipe, use ⅞ cup all-purpose flour (1 cup minus 2 tablespoons) plus 2 tablespoons of corn starch.

It thickens with a satiny smoothness and glossy appearance and adds no taste of its own to mask the flavor of other foods. Recipes thickened with corn starch have a brighter, more translucent appearance than those thickened with flour. Corn starch has twice the thickening power of flour, so it's necessary to use only half as much.

Corn starch also blends more easily with cold liquids than flour because it doesn't absorb liquid until it's cooked.

Cooking with corn starch is easy when you follow a few simple guidelines:

• Amount of stirring. Gradually stir cold liquids into corn starch until completely smooth. Continue to stir gently during entire cooking period. When adding ingredients after cooking, remove the mixture from the heat and stir them in quickly and gently. Stirring too vigorously may cause mixture to break down and thin out.

• Temperature. Cook over medium-low to medium heat. Cooking over high heat can cause lumping. If mixture contains egg, high heat may curdle it.

• Cooking time. Stirring constantly, bring mixture to a full boil and boil 1 minute. After boiling 1 minute, the starch granules will have swelled to their full capacity, causing the mixture to thicken. Significantly overcooking thickened mixtures such as puddings, pies and cake fillings may cause mixture to thin out as it cools.

More Recipes

At the Argo® Corn Starch and Kingsford's® Corn Starch Web site, www.argostarch.com, you can find more tips and delicious, classic and contemporary recipes.

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