Copycat Dairy Queen Blizzard Recipe (2024)

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What are the ingredients in a Dairy Queen blizzard? ›

Artificially Flavored Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milkfat And Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Mono And Diglycerides, Artificial Flavor, Guar Gum, Polysorbate 80, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate, Oreo Cookies: Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, ...

Water, for example, has a low viscosity, while ketchup has a high viscosity. DQ's Blizzards have a high viscosity because of emulsifiers (aka the things that keep the soft serve's ingredients from separating), which hold on to the air blended into the soft serve.

You can use whatever flavor ice cream you want. For example, if you want to make a brownie Blizzard, use chocolate ice cream to give it a richer flavor. Don't overblend the ice cream, or else it will have the consistency of a milkshake.

A full 30 years after the introduction of the Blizzard, the chain paid homage to Blizzard's origin story with a promotion that required employees to serve the frozen treats upside down, lest the customer get it for free.

The "Royal" blizzards on Dairy Queen's menu tend to contain the most calories and sugar of all available blizzard treats. The Royal Rocky Road Trip DQ Blizzard Treat and Royal New York Cheesecake Blizzard Treat each contains 1,510 and 1,350 calories, respectively.

And that, my friends, is dirt pie, the indulgent chocolate Oreo pudding combo sprinkled with candy worms. Now, you can get that nostalgic favorite at your local Dairy Queen and in Blizzard form, no less. DQ is adding its all-new Oreo Dirt Pie Blizzard to its seasonal 2022 "All-Star" summer lineup.

Picnic Peach Cobbler Blizzard Treat: Real peaches and cobber pieces blended with DQ soft serve. Ultimate Cookie Blizzard Treat: Oreo, Chips Ahoy and Nutter Butter cookies blended with DQ soft serve. Frosted Animal Cookie Blizzard Treat: Frosted animal cookie pieces and pink confetti icing blended with DQ soft serve.

In 2015, Dairy Queen showcased these characteristics with a Blizzard promotion that turned the frozen treat on its head. Employees were instructed to serve Blizzards upside down, or they were free. They were able to do this because of the weight, texture, and composition of the Blizzard.

The chain restaurant apparently believes in the product so much that they pledged to serve every Blizzard bottom up. And that's not all. If a customer receives a Blizzard served the normal way, they're rewarded by getting their next one free.

Artificially Flavored Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milkfat And Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Mono And Diglycerides, Artificial Flavor, Guar Gum, Polysorbate 80, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate, Cotton Candy Topping: White Coating (Sugar, Coconut Oil, Nonfat Milk, Milk Fat, Soy Lecithin [Emulsifier], Natural ...

How are blizzards mixed? ›

Blizzard conditions usually build up on the northwest side of a powerful storm system. The storm produces ample snow while strong winds develop because of a difference in pressure between the low pressure of the storm and the high pressure beyond the storm.

In fact, like McDonald's, Dairy Queen doesn't even call its shakes milkshakes, it too sticks with "shakes." And malts. Both the shakes and malts at DQ use as a base "Artificially Flavored Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream" which, according to the proper definition of ice cream is not real ice cream.

To make this DQ Blizzard, all you have to do is blend the ice cream until it's soft and reassembles the texture of soft serve. Once it's smooth enough, add the Oreo cookies and continue to mix until the cookies are crushed and combined with the ice cream.

Blizzards technically aren't ice cream

According to the FDA, a product must contain at least 10 percent butterfat or milkfat to be called ice cream, and DQ's soft serve only has 5 percent—hence why it's always referred to as a Blizzard “treat.”

Initially, DQ's soft serve fit in the category of “ice milk”, but the FDA removed this category and instead allowed companies to sort their products into three new ones: “reduced-fat,” “light” and “low-fat” ice cream.

Some DQs add a squirt of chocolate syrup to the ice cream, no matter what flavor you've ordered.