Recently, I met a new friend, named Erika. This girl did not believe healthy food can taste delicious.
She hadn’t yet heard of the CC Diet philosophy.
Naturally, I felt it was my duty to introduce her. But for Erika’s grave situation, a plain cake-batter shake just wouldn’t suffice. I needed to bring out the chocolate.
Chocolate Cake-Batter Shake
(It’s healthy and sugar-free!)
- 1 frozen, large banana, as ripe as possible
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1-2 tbsp coconut butter
- 1/2 to 2/3 cup milk of choice (I used 200g almond milk) (For an extremely rich, “ice cream”-like shake, try coconut milk. Also, use more or less, depending on desired thickness.)
- 1-2 tbsp cocoa powder (or protein powder)
- For a more cake-like flavor, you can add a very scant 1/8 tsp butter extract. But I opted to leave this out of the recipe, as butter extract isn’t exactly raw! (It is, however, vegan. I emailed Wilton.) Or maybe even use a little melted vegan butter?
- Optional: handfuls of sprinkles
Blend everything together in your Vita-Mix or blender. Add some sprinkles, pre-blending, and throw some more on top! If, like me, you prefer smoothies in a bowl, just reduce the milk.
Or add a little xantham/guar gum, like with the Mint-Chocolate Milkshake.
If you want to un-rawify it, throw in some of the mix for Healthy Chocolate Cake.
(Well, technically you’ve already un-rawified it with the sprinkles. But you can easily choose to leave them out if you want a 100%-raw shake.)
Erika loved the milkshake!
So of course, I invited her over tomorrow, for…
Just kidding! I won’t push my luck. She might not be ready for that yet.
Know someone who hates healthy food?
Have you ever tried to prove to him/her that it can taste good?
How did it go? I’ve had a lot of success getting people on board with the whole “healthy is naughty” thing. Fudge Baby recipes work especially well, like the Raw Thin Mint Brownies.
But sometimes (especially with guys) a person is subconsciously biased against the food before even tasting it. (This is why I often won’t tell someone a food is healthy until after he/she admits to liking it!)
I love how fun you make healthy recipes. These really are fabulous and you’re going to get your friend hooked on healthy eats.
Have you ever tried making your own nut butter? It’s super easy! Just get some raw macademia nuts, soak or roast them, them puree them in a food processor or your magic bullet! This works for all kinds of nuts/seeds.
I’ve made banana butter, by blending pb with banana. But actually blending nuts to make nut butters? Nope, I’ve never done it! I really should, huh? 🙂
Absolutely! It definitely saves you money, plus you can totally customize them: adding cocoa powder for chocolate-nut butter… Adding coconut for coconut-nut butter… The possibilities are really endless (and delicious!)
Woooo, way to vamp up the cake batter milkshake!
Chocolate cake batter?! Great variation!! Sorry I never compliment you in your pics, I always assume you know you’re hot and then I also get distracted by your food porn-LOL! Hopefully you’re well assured by now about how pretty you are, but I’ll add my input as well. You’re hot stuff, chica! I envy girls like you who are so willowy thin, with thick gorgeous hair and a pretty face. Yup, some girls get it all, and you’re one of them. 🙂 I know what you mean about guys being biased to food before trying it, my hubby is that way sometimes. And it helps to trick him too. 🙂
Awwww Veronica, thank you!!! But seriously, I do NOT have it all. I feel like some people have it all together… heck, my mom was married and in her own house by the time she was my age! I’m not ready to be a grownup lol!
I’m going to make the fudge babies for my boyfriend this weekend. And as you mentioned, like many boys he is unnaturally biased against anything that sounds remotely healthy, so of course, mums the word…wish me luck 🙂
Haha oh boys… they don’t know what they’re missing! Good luck Molly lol :).
So I decided to make only half the fudge baby recipe…BIG mistake. after one bite I was hooked and now only a mere 4 little babies remain. Needless to say I will be making more. Is it wrong to have a small part of me hope my boyfriend doesn’t like them so that there will be more for me? haha.
One question for you though…I noticed you use coconut oil in a lot of your recipes…can I substitute olive oil for that? Or is the coconut oil essential? I must admit I’m kind of a coconut oil virgin but I’d be willing to give it a shot if I could find it.
Hmmm… it depends on the recipe. If there’s ever a particular one you want to make, leave me a comment and I’ll tell you what the best sub would be :).
This is perfect to fit into my sugar-free Lent diet! But the sprinkles make it sooooo much prettier =)
Once again, you’re a beautiful genius.
Tomorrow I am stocking up on ingredients and I’m going to make this asap! What could be better than banana and chocolate in the same recipe?
Maybe if you threw in some coconut. Oh wait, it already has that too ;).
YUM! That looks so good. I’ve encountered tons of people in life who think they don’t like healthy food. But all I have to do is bust out some of my tricks and show them that healthy food can (and SHOULD!) taste good. It’s a wonderful feeling when you turn someone on to healthy foods!
P.S. This is a totally unrelated comment but I have a question! How do I make my picture appear in the upper right hand corner of the comment box? I’ve noticed some people’s faces show up and others don’t. How does that work?!
I did mine like a year ago, but I *think* I went to “gravatar.com” and put in a photo. Let me know if that works!
Okay I’m trying it out to see if it worked!
Yay! It worked. There’s my face. haha 🙂 Thanks love! <3
Yum! I know the regular cake batter milkshake is amazing, so I’m sure this is even better. 🙂 My boyfriend actually hates most healthy food. But I’m sure that will change when he starts developing health problems from the way he eats….