Instead, it is a proprietary frozen dairy dessert that is made in-house at Wendy's restaurants. The recipe for the Frosty includes a blend of milk, cream, sugar, and cocoa, which is then mixed with a special machine to create a smooth, thick, and creamy texture.

So started a frosting took ice cream mix. Half chocolate half an hour and that's how we come up with frosty. It wasn't a shake and it wasn't ice cream so he named it frosty.

According to Wendy's, he was inspired by ice cream served at a Cleveland race track in the 1960s. Kappus' staff brought some of that ice cream to Thomas. And they developed the recipe that would ultimately be the original, chocolate Frosty.

The Frosty formula was inspired by ice cream that a race track in Cleveland had in the 1960s. I think it was at Thistledown. A lot of people in Cleveland were familiar with the frosted malts at Thistle made by our machines.

Wendy's combines a list of 16 ingredients to produce its impeccably smooth Frosty. But the real highlight on the ingredients list is that milk is at the very top of it, with cream following not too far down on the list. You can taste those real ingredients, and they're one of the reasons Frostys taste so good.

Behold, the Wendy's Frosty. It's one of the most well known incarnations of the milk shake in the United States today. The most popular flavor is chocolate and only recently did Wendy's offer up the vanilla Frosty, which to those who've had both, is just not the same.

If you're looking for a refreshing, creamy treat, Wendy's Frosty is a popular choice. However, if you're wondering whether it's dairy-free, the answer is no. The ingredients in a Frosty include milk, sugar, corn syrup, and flavorings.

(Some of you might think it sounds weird but it is quite delicious.) But a Wendy's Frosty is definitely not healthy and is definitely not Paleo or Clean Eating. I have come up with a far better solution - a copycat recipe that encompasses the flavor of the Frosty without all the bad ingredients that come with it.

1969 Wendy's original chocolate-flavored Frosty was one of five products on the menu in 1969, as I previously reported for the Deseret News. It took the chain close to four decades to introduce another flavor for the milkshake and ice cream crossover item before adding vanilla, an archive of the company's website stated.

The fan-favorite Vanilla Frosty was temporarily replaced by the Strawberry Frosty over the summer, followed by the seasonal Peppermint Frosty in November 2022. But now, the delicious chilly confection is triumphantly taking back its spot next to the famous Chocolate Frosty.

The consistency and texture are the key differences between a traditional milkshake and a Frosty. According to Wendy's the Frosty was designed to be "thick enough to use a spoon, smooth enough to use a straw, and perfect when enjoyed on the end of a fry."

It was written after the success of Autry's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" the previous year; Rollins and Nelson shopped the new song to Autry, who recorded "Frosty" in search of another seasonal hit. Like "Rudolph", "Frosty" was subsequently adapted to other media including a popular television special.

(Some of you might think it sounds weird but it is quite delicious.) But a Wendy's Frosty is definitely not healthy and is definitely not Paleo or Clean Eating. I have come up with a far better solution - a copycat recipe that encompasses the flavor of the Frosty without all the bad ingredients that come with it.

Frosty (frozen dairy dessert)

Machine it's actually kind of a hybrid between a shake machine and a soft serve. Machine it actually has the freezing chamber of a shake. Machine. And then the refrigeration. System of a soft serve.

The fan-favorite Vanilla Frosty was temporarily replaced by the Strawberry Frosty over the summer, followed by the seasonal Peppermint Frosty in November 2022. But now, the delicious chilly confection is triumphantly taking back its spot next to the famous Chocolate Frosty.