Peppermint Frosty Recipe (2024)

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What is Wendy's peppermint Frosty made of? ›

The peppermint Frosty, made with “bursts of refreshing peppermint” and vanilla soft serve, joins the classic chocolate Frosty on Wendy's menus nationwide, the restaurant said. It's a seasonal favorite and replaces the pumpkin spice Frosty, which debuted this fall.

According to the ingredient list on the Frosty menu page, the chocolate Frosty contains milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey, nonfat dry milk, cocoa, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, natural vanilla flavor, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, sodium citrate, dextrose, and Vitamin A palmitate.

Wendy's is going all out for the holiday season with a new Frosty flavor. The Peppermint Frosty is now joining the classic Chocolate Frosty on Wendy's menus. The merry take on the classic treat will only be available for a limited time.

Chocolate Frosty. Wendy's Signature dessert - cool, creamy and refreshing - thick enough to use a spoon, smooth enough to use a straw.

Wendy's New Orange Dreamsicle Frosty®

Water, Sugar, Powdered MILK, Sunflower Creamer [Sunflower Oil, Maltodextrin, MILK Protein, Emulsifier (E471), Antioxidant (E306)], Whey (MILK), Stabiliser (E415), Stabiliser (E412), Flavouring (Flavouring, Dextrose), Carrageenan [Stabiliser (E407), Dextrin].

Vanilla is the key to the chocolate Frosty

And according to Wendy's, that's on purpose. Wendy's founder Dave Thomas designed the flavor as a mix of vanilla and chocolate.

Keeping the signature consistency of the Wendy's Frosty—a cross between a milkshake and soft-serve ice cream—is essential. In fact, Thomas wanted to recreate the milkshakes he'd had growing up that were so thick that spoons were necessary, per Wendy's.

The peppermint Frosty has arrived at Wendy's restaurants nationwide starting Tuesday for a limited time and will replace the pumpkin spice frosty, the company told USA TODAY. The peppermint beverage was introduced last year for a limited time as the first holiday-themed Frosty the chain added to its menu.

The reintroduction of the Peppermint Frosty marks the third seasonal flavor of 2023, following summer's Strawberry Frosty and fall's Pumpkin Spice Frosty.

Which Frosty is 99 cents? ›

The Frosty Cream Cold Brew debuted nationwide today, Monday, July 24, 2023. The cold brew comes in three flavors - vanilla, chocolate or the new caramel syrup. Customers can give it a try for just 99 cents.

There has only been one edit in the last 50 years, due to customer demand. The only difference is that ice cream has a large amount of butter fat, so we've lowered the [percentage] of butter fat in our Frostys to meet customer demand," Lynch said on Mashed.

No, since for a product to be called ice cream it needs to have a butterfat content over 10%. Since a frosty has a butterfat content below 10% it falls into the category of dairy dessert. This is why the texture of a frosty is not the same as a scoop of ice cream and why they can't call a frosty ice cream.

The Frosty is a frozen dairy dessert of the American fast-food restaurant chain Wendy's.

The 83 grams of sugar is well over double the RDA experts recommend, so you really do need to think twice before consuming a large Peppermint Frosty.

A frosty is somewhere between a milkshake and soft-serve ice cream. Sure, it has a rich chocolate flavor, but the chocolate Wendy's Frosty has a surprising secret, too. Here's what makes it so tasty.