Health Food = Rabbit Food
Normally this is exactly the kind of stereotype I try to dispel on my blog. But today, I’m embracing it full-force:
A carrot cake milkshake!
A double carrot cake milkshake, as I topped it with my 5-Minute Single Serving Carrot Cake in a Mug recipe. Two carrot cakes are better than one.
Carrot Cake Milkshake
- 1 extremely-ripe, large banana (frozen)
- 2/3 cup milk of choice (For a rich, “ice cream”-like shake, use canned coconut milk. Also, use more or less, depending on desired thickness.)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- heaping 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 small carrot (50g or so)
- scant 1/16 tsp salt (to bring out sweetness)
- Optional: 1 tbsp Homemade Coconut Butter
Steam your carrot first, then blend all of the ingredients together in your blender, food processor, or even a Magic Bullet. (Note: This still tastes delicious if you just use almond milk as opposed to canned coconut milk. But it’s more of a carrot cake smoothie than a true milkshake.) I crumbled a healthy carrot cake in a mug on top.
Get your bunny friends together and eat rabbit food. Or don’t tell your bunny friends, and keep the rabbit food for yourself! ‘Cause if you’re anything like me, you have a lot of bunny friends. As a child, I collected rabbits, so I have about a million stuffed animals, figurines, and other such bunny toys. If I invited all of them to my carrot-cake parties, the non-bunny of the group (me) would never get a bite.
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I just made a batch with coconut milk and greek yogurt and they were phenomenal! I grated a raw carrot and blended it in and it turned out wonderfully well. Having the raw, crunchy bits makes me feel like I have a treat akin to chocolate chips in it!
I’m so excited you made it! And liked it!! 🙂
Oh wow I am definitely going to try this smoothie. I love carrot cake! Definitely not sharing it with any greedy bunnies 🙂
I used to collect all sorts of things, beanie babies, rocks, all stuffed animals in general actually. Now i have a bunch of owl things XD
i love you for this! i used to collect trolls and teenage mutant ninja gear lol.
hah, when you listed what you used to collect, you basically were describing my childhood. one of my current friends used to call me “beanie baby girl” because I brought a beanie baby to school every day in 4th grade… and my first AIM screen name was smiley9010. 🙂
Haha you don’t want to know mine. It was Pandacheese. So weird… and random!
Yum! Just found my way here from Pinterest. Looks great and healthy 🙂
Aw yay! I don’t know what pinterest is, but I’m so glad you found me! 🙂
Carrot Cake Milkshake was AWESOME!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I added an extra carrot because i love Karrot Kake!!! lol
ps…I used my Vitamix so i didnt have to steam the carrot.
Thx again for all your hard work in bringing “us” all great alternatives to great food! THX
I’m so excited you tried it… and liked it! 🙂
I made this for breakfast this morning, who needs green smothies, I’d rather have a carrot cake smoothie! 😛 I’m seeing more combinations of this as ice cream…like sprinkling pineapple and raisins on top. Super Yummy! Thanks!
P.S. I’m new to blogging and posting on blogs. How do I get my picture to appear instead of the little grey head?? 🙂
Aww yay!
LOL I did mine a long time ago. But I *think* you can go here: http://en.gravatar.com/
Just click on the “get gravatar” link :).
Just had this for breakfast! If I wouldn’t know that that’s always the deal with your recipes, I simply wouldn’t believe that something so good has 0 grams added sugars and serving of fruit & vegetable in it. Amazing!
*Huge smile!* 🙂 🙂
YUM! just made this (I found your blog a few weeks ago, and this is the first recipe I’ve made….def. trying more!!!) and it’s SO good and easy!
I didn’t steam the carrot, and it didn’t taste “grassy”. I used a Vitamix blender, so that might be why. Thank you!!!!!
🙂 🙂
I am sipping on this right now and it is GLORIOUS. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much for all your amazingly delicious recipes! 😀
I am so happy to have found this recipe. It looks delicious – and I followed your link to your VERY SIMPLE coconut butter! Great resource!
Thanks
~ Tiffany
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This was good, but the banana flavor overpowered pretty much everything else. I was wondering if the addition of the coconut oil balances that out? Speaking of coconut oil, where do I find that? I’ve looked in every grocery store in the city for that or coconut butter, and it is not to be found. I have yet to wander to the traffic-mayhem area of town to check out Whole Foods or Trader Joes; do you think either of those places would be more likely to have it?
I like the taste of banana, so maybe I’m just biased and don’t notice it ;). But if you don’t want a banana flavor, maybe try a greener banana?
Both stores should have coconut oil, but Trader Joes won’t have Artisana coconut butter, which is a completely different thing from the oil.
Yum !
You have done a wonderful thing mixed my two favorite desserts into one! Keep up the great work!
Oooo, glad I found this one on your chocolate peanut egg post today! I was thinking about this during the last leg of my run when I started getting hungry, and upon returning home discovered that I was clean out of bananas… So, I decided to be adventurous and sub the frozen banana for 1/3 cup pumpkin puree, which I happened to have in my fridge… I had to add a splash of maple syrup to sweeten it to my liking, but the flavors totally worked!
Katie,
This has my name written all over it! I’m so glad you posted this to pinterest or else I would’ve missed it! Keep those pins coming. 🙂