Dark chocolate, peanut butter and banana smoothie
Making smoothies is something that we make very often at my house, at least 3-4 times per week. I find it to be a very easy way to include powerful nutrients in our diet and the kids love them. I even use this method to freeze some and make ice pops. You can’t never go wrong with healthy ice pops :-)
This chocolate, peanut butter and banana smoothie is one of our favorites, and lets not forget the spinach and strawberry I made a while back. That one is also a FAV :-).
I used dark chocolate because it has much more properties, such as antioxidants, but you can use what ever chocolate you have on hand.
I will be posting some other variations very soon. If you are looking to incorporate more fruits and veggies in your diet making smoothies is a very easy and practical way to do it.
Enjoy!!
I blend the chocolate chips, cocoa powder, peanut butter and 1 cup of the soy milk first. Then I add the remaining ingredients.
Your kids and yourself will love this amazing chocolate and peanut butter smoothy. The frozen bananas gives it the milk shake consistency kids love!!
PrintDark chocolate, peanut butter and banana smoothie
Miryam's original recipe
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients:
3 cups of almond milk
2-3 frozen bananas, chopped
1 tablespoon unsweetened dark cocoa powder
1/4 cup dark chocolate chips ( 70% cocoa chocolate its better)
1 tablespoon raw cacao nibs (optional)
1/4 cup flax seed meal
2-3 tablespoons organic peanut butter.
Directions:
In a blender add the chocolate chips, cocoa nibs, cocoa powder, peanut butter and 1 cup almond milk. Blend for about 30 seconds. Add other remaining ingredients and blend until liquefied.
You can also freeze these on individual 3 oz Dixie cups for the kids. I do sometimes.
Nutrition facts based on the recipe giving 5 servings.
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I love the fact that you can control the quality of ingredients in this awesome milk shake! :-D Yum!
Caroline
Chocolate & Carrots
Mmmm, delicious! Looks like dessert to me :D We’ve been going crazy on smoothies lately – my kids love them and they can be so healthy :)
This sounds delicious! I am going to have to make this!
This is SO perfect. My family will love this :-) Dark Chocolate is the BEST!
This sounds almost TOO good!
Can’t wait to try this – sounds wonderful. I’m going to try it using peanut butter power because then it would have less fat and calories.
Cindylbe,
this is really yummy so I hope you like it :-)
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Hi this is really awesome. Well me and my girl friends will find this really useful because we love soya and chocolate. Thanks!
Regards,
Haley McAdams
Bartending Certification
thanks for sharing.
Would 2% work? This sounds good. May have to get flax from my mom.
For sure, any type of milk will do it. Thanks for stopping by.
Can u sub. Almond butter instead of peanut butter?
For sure. Thanks for visiting.
I have everything to make this tomorrow for breakfast, except the flax seed meal, what can I substitute that with? Oats? Thanks!!!!
Yes, you can totally use oats :-)
Can I use oatmeal?
For sure :-) Thanks for visiting my blog!!
I used to manage a dairy queen/ orange julius a few years ago. My favorite thing to make was a banana, peanut butter and cbocolate smoothie.I never understood why this wonderful treat wasn’t on the menu, but when customers would ask me my favorite id offer to make it anyways! Such a deliscious combo of flavors!!
Me encanta tu blog y los ingredientes muy faciles de conseguir sige asi y si puedes poner mas menus para niños estaria super!! Como para el summer,paletas de hielo,gelatinas etc….Gracias
I make a similar smoothie several times a week but I add a handful of power greens (spinich, kale) and u cant even taste it… also silk makes a dark chocolate almond milk that is great when in a hurry :)
Next time I will do that. Thanks for the suggestion :-)
Never would have thought to add chocolate chips to this type of smoothie–great idea! (Chocolate almond butter smoothies are the best!) :)
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