What: Chocolate peanut butter crunch monster shake
Where: Monster Shakes, 425 S. Sunrise Way, Palm Springs; also at 68718 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Cathedral City
How much: $14.95 as shown
Contact: 760-325-9803 (Palm Springs); 760-832-6166 (Cathedral City); www.monstershakesps.com
Why: The reality matches the picture.
The Monster Shakes website includes photos of the various offerings—and the pictures in the eponymous “monster shakes” section look completely unreal.
Consider the picture of what we’d eventually order, the chocolate peanut butter crunch monster shake: It shows a tall, clear cup overflowing with whipped cream, two full Reese’s peanut butter cups, puffed pretzel pieces, two chocolate wafers and chocolate-syrup drizzles. The top inch-plus of the outside of the cup is slathered with peanut butter and miniature Reese’s pieces; inside, chocolate syrup streams down the sides to the bottom of the cup.
I told the hubby: “There’s no way the actual shakes look like this.”
Well, guess what: They do, as you can see in the photo.
The shake not only looks stunning; it was pretty damned tasty, too. I mean, how can you go wrong with chocolate peanut butter ice cream and all of the aforementioned ingredients? It was also quite filling; the hubby and I split the thing, and we were decidedly full afterward. (Amazingly, there’s even a larger size, the “mega monster,” available for $4 more.)
If massive milkshakes aren’t your thing, Monster Shakes has a lot of other treats, too, including ice cream scoops/pints/quarts, sundaes, shaved ice, energy bowls, a “cotton candy burrito,” vegan shakes, smoothies, Italian cream sodas, a “monster ice cream taco,” varied Dole soft-serve flavors, coffee, other beverages, and more.
I think I gained five pounds simply typing that last paragraph.
Fun fact: Most of Monster Shakes’ offerings are available for delivery. I have no idea how that would work without making several major messes.
