Chocolate Almond Milk Smoothie
This Chocolate Almond Milk Smoothie is rich, creamy, and simple to make from everyday ingredients. Best of all, it works double time as a filling breakfast and a sweet-yet-healthy afternoon treat!
Everyone loves a good smoothie, but a chocolate smoothie? Now we’re talking about a real treat!
This particular smoothie is made from simple, natural ingredients, so you can feel good about drinking it, for sure. But my favorite thing is how straightforward it is to make. In our house it’s basically a requirement that a smoothie be crazy easy to throw together and use ingredients we normally have on hand, anyway. This checks all those boxes — and gets rave reviews from my whole family, too.
My five-year-old is always excited to have one of these — I think for the simple reason that anything chocolate is assumed to be a treat. 🙂
Chocolate almond milk smoothie: what you’ll need
- Banana. I know some people are anti-banana in smoothie, but to me there’s no better way to get an all-natural creamy and sweet effect. Plus, smoothies (along with banana bread and muffins) are pretty much our only hope of working through the huge number of overripe bananas we seem to acquire constantly.
- Almond milk. I prefer using sweetened vanilla almond milk here, but anything variety you enjoy will work well. Start with 1/2 cup milk per 1 frozen banana — you can always add an extra splash to make the smoothie thinner if you prefer.
- Cocoa powder. Gotta get that chocolate from somewhere! You can also swap in chocolate-flavored protein powder for an extra nutritional boost.
- Optional add-ins: chia seeds, cinnamon, etc. Throw in 1-2 teaspoons of whatever else you like for added nutrition and flavor. Flax seeds or oats also work well, or add a tablespoon of almond butter for a richer, creamier result.
Serving size
As written, with one banana and 1/2 cup of almond milk, this yields what I would consider one medium (meal-sized) or two small (snack-sized) smoothies.
More healthy smoothies
- Banana Almond Milk Smoothie
- Blueberry Almond Milk Smoothie
- Strawberry Pomegranate Smoothie
- Blood Orange Banana Smoothie
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Chocolate Almond Milk Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1 frozen banana cut into chunks
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1-2 teaspoons chia seeds optional
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon optional
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a blender and blitz on high speed until smooth. Enjoy!
My wife and kids were immediately drawn to the hue of this smoothie. Thank you!
So happy to hear they liked it, Ben. 🙂