SALTED CARAMEL COOKIE DOUGH SMOOTHIE

Cool, creamy, and ridiculously comforting! This Salted Caramel Cookie Dough Smoothie tastes indulgent but is made with wholesome foods like dates and oats!



INGREDIENTS

  • 1/4 frozen banana (2 – 3 small chunks, about 25 g)
  • 1/4 cup (20 g) rolled oats
  • 3 big or 5 small dates, pitted (around 1/4 cup, 45 g)
  • 1/3 cup (80 ml) vanilla almond milk
  • 3 – four frozen almond milk cubes (or ice cubes)
  • 1 tbsp (16 g) almond butter (optional)*
  • pinch of salt

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Place all of the foods into any fundamental blender and mix till smooth. This smoothie could be made in develop and kept within the fridge for more thickness and creaminess!

NOTES

  • * You can depart out the almonds and it'll nonetheless style amazing. These are simply for delivered creaminess. Also, when you don’t have almonds on hand, a Tbsp. of almond butter will work too.

NUTRITION

  • Serves 1
  • Calories Per Serving: 319
  • % DAILY VALUE
  • 15%Total Fat 10g
  • Saturated Fat 0.9g
  • 0%Cholesterol 0mg
  • 3%Sodium 63.2mg
  • 18%Total Carbohydrate 52.7g
  • 28%Dietary Fiber 7g
  • Sugars 30.4g
  • 15%Protein 7.4g

We’ve loved pretty sunny climate all week after which it decides to be cloudy and darkish at the day I have to photo a recipe. Typical. But after teasing you guys with visions of salted caramel cookie dough smoothies for a pair of days, I wasn’t about to grasp off any longer — I’ll take a tough photoshoot over the wrath of hungry readers any day

That being said, I’m in reality tremendous comfortable that it’s cooling down. After the sprinkling of snow we got hit with a pair of weeks back, this previous week saw us having fun with a mild warmth wave which I didn’t in reality look after much. I mean… I desire my sweater weather, dammit!


But I guess I can’t hate at the warmth too loads since that was what brought on me to create this freaking marvelous smoothie. See, I needed anything that was cool and creamy but nonetheless comforting… meaning nothing overly fruity or current tasting. I idea about going the pumpkin route, but with the current scarcity and a pair of special recipes floating round in my head, I didn’t precisely have any pumpkin to spare. I did, however… have dates.

Fun fact: I didn’t in reality have my first style of dates till I was effectively into my 20’s (I grew up with raisins), and it was simply love at first bite. Not only are dates wonderfully candy and gooey, but additionally they occur to style a entire heck of loads like caramel — therefore the identify of this smoothie.

Yup! This smoothie is made with dates. I apologize when you got here right the following expecting real caramel, but I can promise you that one sip of this more healthy model may have you ever singing a special tune. It’s de-freaking-licious. The salt is, of course, optional, but extremely advised because it in reality allows convey out the sweetness of the dates.

As for the cookie dough facet of the equation — again, it’s now not real cookie dough — however it be exceptionally doughy way to the addition of uncooked oats. It’s also exceptionally thick, creamy, and comforting. And if you’ve by no means tried including oats to your smoothies, you have to switch that stat as it'll change.your.life. And why now not bounce with a Salted Caramel Cookie Dough Smoothie?

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