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FREAKSHAKES are causing a stir on social media, with more and more cafés in Asia jumping on the high-calorie trend.
For the uninitiated, freakshakes are over-the-top desserts that combine milkshakes with other sweet treats like donuts, ice cream, brownies, pretzels and chocolate bars. These shakes are essentially “dessert on dessert on dessert”, and their zany, out-of-control look have caught fire on social media.
Oftentimes, the shakes are made to look “wild” and “unhinged”, with sauce or fudge dripping down the rim of the glass, shocks of cotton candy and cream on top, and garnished with shards of wafer, cake or cookie.
It all began in a modest Canberra café called Pâtissez, whose freakshakes have had people waiting out their doors for up to an hour. According to owner Anna Petridis, the treats were made for Instagram, as most customers would take a photo of their shakes before devouring them.
The signature shakes at the café are the Muddy Pat – made of hot chocolate fudge, toasted marshmallows, brownies and whipped cream – and the Pretzella, Nutella with crushed salty pretzels and whipped cream.
“I wanted to do some really great shakes, and so ridiculous and over-the-top that people just had to take a photo of it before they ate it,” Petridis said.
The café recently opened an outlet in Kuala Lumpur, already gaining traction among Malaysians who were previously getting their fix from popular café Garage 51.
In Bangkok, the trend is already up and running, with cafés like ONCE and David’s concocting their own interpretations of the monster milkshakes.
Over in Singapore, cafés like The Benjamins and Cake Spade have mashed cake and milkshake into towering creations. At the latter, Asian ingredients like matcha powder, adzuki beans and palm sugar are used for a local spin.
In Mumbai, freakshake fans can expect creations made with gulab jamun and rabdi on top of existing shakes like raspberry granola and glazed donuts.
Nutritionists have said that these shakes may contain up to 1,500 calories each, 500 calories short of the average daily calorie intake of an adult female. Best to walk home, then.
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