7 Brew Cookies & Cream Shake

The 7 Brew Cookies & Cream Shake is a caffeine-free blended dessert drink built from three flavor layers - cupcake syrup, dark chocolate sauce, and white chocolate sauce - whipped together with 7 Brew's proprietary ice cream mix and ice. It contains 0mg of caffeine in every size, runs 190 calories for a 10oz Kids up to 660 calories for a 32oz Large, and costs $4.00 (Kids), $5.50 (Small), $6.50 (Medium), or $7.50 (Large). It is one of the few items on the entire 7 Brew menu that is both completely caffeine-free and unmistakably a dessert.

Here is the part most people get wrong: 7 Brew shakes are not made by scooping hard ice cream into a spindle mixer, and there are no crushed cookies blended into the cup. Every 7 Brew shake starts from the same dairy-based ice cream mix - a thick, sweet, heavy-vanilla-cream liquid - which is then blended with flavor syrups and sauces to order. For the Cookies & Cream, the cupcake syrup supplies the buttery vanilla-frosting note that reads as the cream filling, the dark chocolate sauce supplies the roasted, slightly bitter cookie-wafer note, and the white chocolate sauce rounds the whole thing into that familiar milk-soaked-Oreo sweetness. The result tastes remarkably close to the real thing while staying perfectly smooth - no cookie grit, no chunks in the straw.

That smoothness is exactly why this shake has become the go-to order for kids, late-shift workers who cannot handle caffeine after 6pm, and anyone bringing a passenger who does not drink coffee. 7 Brew is a drive-thru-only chain out of Rogers, Arkansas, and the crew builds every drink to order, which means this shake is deeply customizable - half-sweet, extra dark chocolate, an added espresso shot, or a swap of the ice cream mix for an alternative milk are all standard requests. If you want a straightforward, no-coffee, dessert-in-a-cup order that satisfies a milkshake craving without a trip to an ice cream stand, this is the drink.