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.
By popular request: 50 Healthy Vita-Mix Recipes
Do you ever include the Nutritional Information with your recipes for those who are counting calories? A lot of this stuff seems over-the-top when it comes to fat and caloric intake. Would be nice to know.
Yes, if you read through my recipes many (most?) do include nutritional info.
I’ll take a better look, but I didn’t see anything noted with this one. Am I not seeing it?
Thank you for your response. I’m “counting calories” so it’s very important.
I don’t have info listed for that one, but most of my other recipes–especially the more-recent ones–will have full nutritional info listed. (Now I’m including ww points as well.)
I’ll take a better look, but I didn’t see anything noted with this one. Am I not seeing it? I had checked a few and the info is sporadic and not complete. Some have just calories and no fat, and vice versa.
However, I thank you for your response. I’m “counting calories” so it’s very important. I need calories, carbs, and fats, at the least, in order to try something. I’ll never get as thin as you if I don’t! : )
As I said above, I don’t have the info for this particular one.
Hi, you two! It’s about 210 per shake, not including the optional coconut oil. If you add the crumbled single-lady carrot cake cupcake, you’re looking at about 270.
I don’t eat bananas, what do you suggest taking the place of such a carb-rich fruit?
I googled some options b/c I thought the banana was too overpowering, and I found two banana free recipes I want to try: http://pursuitofhippieness.com/2012/03/22/carrot-cake-smoothie/
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=270238
I haven’t yet gotten around to it yet though. Mostly b/c I’m on a strawberry-banana smoothie kick. Katie might have better suggestions though 🙂
Avocado makes for good banana-less shakes as well. My favorite shake is an avocado shake. Delicious sweet.
So this was really good. I made it tonight, though I messed it up and included the vanilla – forgetting my hubby had picked up vanilla coconut milk for me. So a little too vanilla-y but hey, good stuff. I made the carrot cake to go on top and ended up eating it before the shake was complete. I’ll have to do a redo on it tomorrow. 🙂
I can’t wait to try this Katie. I have never included a carrot in a milkshake intended as a desert and honestly never thought of it.
I made this for breakfast today, using a frozen greek yogurt instead of milk–sure creamy and delicious!
HOLY FREAKIN’ CAMOLY!!! I just made this milkshake (after wanting to forever), and it is AMAZING!!!! :-0 Ahhh!!! Will definitely be making it often!! Thank you!!
Oh my god. I just made this and tasted it with a spoon right from the blender, and found myself 5 minutes later still standing over the counter (spoon in one hand and blender in the other). THIS SMOOTHIE IS DELICIOUS!! I also like to “eat” my smoothies in a bowl/with a spoon, and this was perfect (and I love carrot cake). Also, I added some dried white mulberries on top for a little crunch, and it’s divineeeeee
Thank you!!!!
My first collection was anything Little Mermaid (Ariel). I still collect Little Mermaid items! But two other fairly large collections I have are porcelain fairy figurines and bouncy balls.
What is the yummy whipped topping made of?
soyatoo 🙂
Just made this, with a few changes. I’m not vegan (I just love your recipes) so I used regular 2% dairy milk. I added a little honey. I left out the optional things. I used about 7 steamed baby carrots. This was a pretty good smoothie. It left a few chucks of carrot but that wasnt a big deal. Even with the chunks of carrot though, the banana taste WAY overpowered the carrot taste. It didn’t really taste like carrot cake at all. Delicious, but not carrot cake. I WILL try again with a normal carrot, a less ripe banana (or just less banana) and maybe I’ll even try some coconut milk. 🙂 I also want to try this recipe with ice cream, maybe as a desert instead of a lunch, like I had today 😉 Thanks for the recipe! I found it over Pinterest btw. You are all OVER Pinterest.
-Paige
yum! I made this with oats, 3 whole carrots!, raisins, pecans, coconut oil, wheat bran, cinnamon, vanilla plant protein, and almond milk…and it is so scrumptious! (as a meal of course…look at that long list of ingredients 🙂 )
oh and ice to thicken!
this is heaven.
Hi Katie! Quick question…does the xantham gum make it thick? Is it tasteless? I’ve never tried it.
I included this recipe in a list of milkshake recipes in an article I wrote about Cow Appreciation Day. Thought you might like to read it! Thanks! http://www.zujava.com/cow-appreciation-day
Katie… using a Vita-Mix, you don’t have to steam the carrot first! Have you ever tried that?
I haven’t. Thanks for the tip!
Okay, so I made this for my supper tonight.
To be honest, I expected it would be healthy… but rather gross.
I didn’t have any kind of milk opened so I threw a handful of raw cashews along with some water into the blender when I put the steamed carrots in. I added some ginger as well as the cinnamon and vanilla… and a pinch of salt.
To be honest, I didn’t bother measuring anything.
I didn’t have coconut butter, so I dropped a spoonful of coconut oil into the blender.
I didn’t have carrot cake to sprinkle on top.
OH.MY.GOODNESS!!!!! IT WAS DEEEELICIOUS!!!
Thank you SOOOO much!
I’m so glad it turned out well! 🙂
Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to contact you personally about your recipes or is this the only way? I would want to know if your pure vanilla extract meant that it’s only referring to the regular vanilla extract with alcohol in it or the plain vanilla flavor with alcohol free? I stumbled on this web site which made me think if this could alter the taste theoretically: http://www.singingdogvanilla.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=KGB&Product_Code=PVE002&Category_Code=PVE
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