Batido de Trigo

Puffed Wheat Shakes

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Passion for Ice Cream

By Emily Luchetti

Published 2006

  • About

Once, when I joined other chefs for a benefit dinner and cooking class in Miami, we spent a day exploring Little Havana. One of the highlights was this frozen drink, which we enjoyed at a little place called La Feliz de Rey. It sounds bizarre: puffed wheat in a milk shake? But one of the chefs, Cuban-born Maria Manso, owner of Maria Manso World Cuisine in San Rafael, California, had fond memories of slurping it as a kid. You don’t have to be a kid to love it. For a real adu