Best Cook Out shakes, ranked by taste (August 2026 opinion)

Cook Out spins Fancy Milkshakes with ice cream and a thickness that often needs a spoon. About 40 flavors is a lot of choice. Below is how we would order them after tasting — not a nutrition list.

Flavors we would order first

Opinion ranking from August 2026. Your favorite can be different. We are not claiming official sales data.

Our August 2026 pick: Banana Pudding

Tastes like banana pudding: vanilla base, banana, vanilla-wafer notes. The nostalgia is the point.

If you only try one shake, this is the one we would point you to.

Cheesecake

Rich, tangy, creamy, with a graham-cracker finish. Dessert-dense even by Cook Out standards.

Half-and-half with Strawberry is the strawberry-cheesecake mix people repeat.

Fresh Banana

Not Banana Pudding. Fresh banana blended into vanilla — fruitier and less “pudding dessert.”

A common pick when you want sweet but not as heavy as pudding or fudge.

Oreo

Cookie pieces in a vanilla base. Chunks often stay crunchy after the blend.

Half Oreo, half Mint Chocolate Chip is a mint-cookies mix worth asking for.

Peanut Butter Fudge

The richest shake we tasted. Peanut butter plus chocolate fudge. Filling enough that sharing is reasonable.

Treat it as dessert, not a light drink. We will not invent a calorie number for it.

Seasonal flavors

Fresh Watermelon shows up in summer and drinks lighter than the fudge flavors. Pumpkin Pie in fall. Eggnog around the holidays — polarizing.

If a seasonal flavor is on the board, it is worth asking about that visit. Availability is local.

The flavor list

Half-and-half mixes people repeat