A McFlurry from McDonald’s is made with soft-serve ice cream and various toppings, including crushed cookies, candies, or other mix-ins. The ice cream base typically consists of ingredients like milk, sugar, cream, and stabilizers. Specific McFlurry flavors incorporate additional ingredients like chocolate, syrup, or honeycombed pieces.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
- Ice Cream:The McFlurry’s foundation is soft-serve ice cream, often vanilla-flavored, with ingredients like skimmed milk, sugar, cream, whey powder, glucose syrup, and stabilizers like guar gum and carrageenan.
- Mix-Ins:The flavor is enhanced with different toppings, such as crushed cookies (like Oreos), candy bars (like Smarties or M&Ms), or other mixed-in ingredients.
- Additional Flavors:Some McFlurry flavors include ingredients like chocolate sauce, syrup, or even apple cake pieces.
Examples of McFlurry Ingredients:
- Smarties McFlurry:Sugar, skimmed milk powder, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, glucose syrup, wheat flour, whey powder, butter oil, vegetable fats, starch, emulsifiers, colorings, and glazing agents.
- Maltesers McFlurry:Milk chocolate (with ingredients like sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, cocoa mass, and vegetable fat), and honeycombed pieces (with ingredients like glucose syrup, malt extract, milk powder, and vegetable oil).