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’ve never tried mango or pineapple so I don’t know if I like those! I’ll have to try them soon! Also, how do I know which bananas are very unripe? Do they still have the typical banana smell??
I went for a 7.5 mile run this morning and while having my breakfast I found your blog (via Peanut Butter Fingers) and made myself some funfetti cookie dough balls that were ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC and TOTALLY hit the spot! I was looking for a little something extra besides my bagel thin (half with pb, half with an egg over easy) and these were perfect. Keep the great recipes coming!!
If they’re very unripe, they’ll be greenish. The greener, the better!
On the flip side, the browner they are, the riper. And the riper they are, the more they taste like banana.
And I’m so excited you made the funfetti balls!!! 🙂 🙂
Hahahaha… when I started eating healthier, my husband didn’t object, UNTIL he saw the tofu in the fridge. “I’m NEVER eating Tofu” he declared. “Oh really?” I said thinking “We’ll just see about that.” I found a recipe for a chocolate mousse using silken tofu, made it, served it, he ate it…. so I asked “How was the chocolate pudding?” He said “It was pretty good.” I started laughing… He said “what?” I gleefully chuckled and said “guess what??? YOU JUST ATE TOFU!!!” He doesn’t say he never will eat anything again…. he never knows what I’ll trick him into eating. LOL
Hahaha I did that with my boyfriend! Tofu chocolate mousse is the best! And no one can ever tell it has tofu! 🙂
I need help. I hate coconut. It makes me gag. Any other ideas to substitute coconut milk?
You can use any milk–oat milk, almond milk, cashew milk, whatever you wish!
WOW. I have to admit–I was SO skeptical about this actually turning out to taste like cake batter. Still, the ingredients looked yummy and healthy, so I gave it a try. WOW…you’re right-it tastes EXACTLY like cake batter…it’s almost uncanny!. Thanks for an awesome idea. 🙂
Aww thank YOU for trying it!!! 🙂
We tried the chocolate cake-batter milkshake and though it was just awful. I even tried to doctor it up but we ended up just pouring it down the drain. So disappointing! Haven’t tried any of the other recipes yet. They sure do look good in the pictures though.
Hi anonymous,
Can you tell me exactly what ingredients you used… maybe I can figure out where you went wrong with the recipe?
I made it exactly as you described. At the initial taste test we couldn’t drink it. Also, the consistency was like water. I then tried the butter extract, extra coconut butter and even had to add extra cocoa and agave nectar to get it to taste like chocolate and to give it sweetness because we felt it was neither chocolate-y nor sweet with the original ingredients. Also, I had to use xanthan gum to get it thicker than water. I used a super ripe frozen banana since I always have a large bag in the freezer for smoothies but it just didn’t cut it for sweetness. So, I didn’t go wrong anywhere since I followed the recipe exactly. I am a very seasoned, experienced cook with a lot of years under my belt. LOL No offense to you as you seem like a very nice girl and your recipes really do look so good. Plus, so many people seem to love them so I was shocked it was so bad to us. 🙁 Oh well, I might try again with something else. I do enjoy reading your blog though!
I really don’t see how you could’ve made it exactly as the recipe states, because it’s just way too thick to ever be considered the consistency of water! In any case, you are definitely entitled to your opinion… I just hope that if you try something else, it turns out better for you :).
I can assure you I made it exactly according to your directions. There is no reason for me to lie about that or about the consistency. It is not my opinion that it was watery; it was fact for us. LOL Anyway, I just thought my post might be useful if anyone else out there tried it and had similar results but didn’t want to post because of all the positive feedback you receive. Not everyone takes criticism well but thanks for at least not deleting my posts. 🙂
It sounds like anonymous used a bad nondairy milk. That’s probably the problem. I know for me personally, I can’t stand the “So Delicious” coconut milk, because I think it tastes watery. But I just made this shake, and it was anything BUT watery. It was so thick and dreamy. Loved it, Katie! I love how I can drink a chocolate shake for breakfast and still be healthy ;).
This was AWESOME!!!
Seriosuly, will you marry me? I have been drinking your regular (vanilla) cake batter shakes for a few months now, but only just yesterday did I discover you had done a chocolate version! Needless to say, I got on it right away. It was so so so so good. Don’t think I’ll even be drinking the vanilla ones anymore, even though I’d been drinking them every day for the entire month of August. But now I have a new favorite ;).
THANK YOU! 🙂
Oh my goodness. I just made this and it made my morning. :o) I used dark cocoa powder and it seriously tasted like I was drinking brownie batter. Um yeah. Dig it.
Your blog is my new favorite btdubs. Thank you so much for creating so many healthy and ridiculously delicious vegan recipes. You rock.
Oh wow, I need to try it with dark cocoa powder! Dark cocoa powder > regular cocoa powder. For sure.
yes. it. does.
Just made this with 1 tbsp cocoa + 1 tbsp milo, minus coconut butter, no sugar. YUM.
Thanks for this recipe! Super yummy to say the least! I am not vegan but my 2 year old son has severe food allergies to wheat, nuts, eggs, milk, and soy( that we know of). Vegan recipes help me to feed him good and healthy things and I love being able to eat with him and share the same food! Thanks again!!
Aww that makes me so happy! I can’t imagine how hard it must be to have so many allergies… I’m only happy that we (as a society) are getting better about offering allergy-free foods and are becoming more aware of the fact that so many people have allergies and still deserve to enjoy good food!