This easy Carrot Cake Smoothie is a great way to start your day! Packed with real, simple ingredients and slightly sweetened so it tastes just like your favorite carrot cake recipe!
Best Carrot Cake Smoothie
Made with simple, real ingredients like carrots, plain dairy-free yogurt, maple syrup, frozen banana and so much more! This carrot cake smoothie tastes so much like real carrot cake! Love making this in the Spring around Easter – so refreshing and such a fun way to start the day!
Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Easy: As with most smoothies, they are just SO easy! Throw it all in a blender and you are good-to-go within a few minutes.
- Carrots: Carrots are a great source of beta-carotene (as well as many other things!) – what an awesome way to get your veggies in early in the morning.
- Slightly Sweetened: I usually don’t add extra sweeteners to my smoothies, other than fruit, but for this one (which is a little special) I did add in some extra sweeteners (maple syrup and a touch of molasses for that true carrot cake taste).
What You Will Need
- frozen banana: this adds in a little sweetness and it also helps thicken the smoothie.
- unsweetened almond milk: this adds just enough liquid so the smoothie isn’t TOO thick!
- plain, dairy-free yogurt: this also helps thicken the smoothie – I like the Silk plain almond milk brand/variety.
- carrots: duh, it’s a carrot cake smoothie – we have to have carrots! But this is a good reason to use a high-speed blender as it needs to be able to break down raw carrots 🙂
- ground cinnamon + ground nutmeg: traditional carrot cake spices.
- maple syrup + molasses: add a little extra sweetness and they can also be found in carrot cake (we use molasses in ours).
- (optional) handful of ice cubes: if you weren’t able to use frozen banana then adding in a handful of ice cubes will help thicken a little!
- toppings: coconut flakes and chopped walnuts (optional): if you want to be extra fancy then add on some fun toppings! Whipped almond milk is fun too!
How To Make A Carrot Cake Smoothie
To start making this easy smoothie recipe, prepare and gather all of your ingredients.
Place all of the smoothie ingredients in a high powered blender or food processor.
Then blend on high for 1-2 minutes or until smooth.
Pour and enjoy this spring!
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Carrot Cake Smoothie
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 smoothie 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Blender
- Cuisine: American
Description
Carrot Cake Smoothie – a yummy breakfast treat or snack that is perfect for Spring! Made with real ingredients in less than 10 minutes!
Ingredients
- 1 large banana, frozen
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened almond milk, more if desired
- 5oz plain, dairy-free yogurt
- 1–2 carrots, chopped (about 1/2 – 3/4 cup)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon molasses
- (optional) handful of ice cubes
- toppings: coconut flakes and chopped walnuts (optional)
Instructions
- Combine ingredients into a high-speed blender.
- Blend on high until consistency is smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides when needed.
- Taste and add additional almond milk (1 tablespoon at at time) to thin it out, add additional maple syrup (1 tablespoon at at time) to sweeten and add handful of ice cubes to thicken.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- Collagen: I have also added collagen to this smoothie and it is really good! You could also adding a protein powder if you wanted!
- Dates: You can also skip the molasses and use a date to help sweeten this too – I would recommend letting your date sit in some hot water for a while before using it so it breaks down more easily in the blender, otherwise you might end up with little date chunks in your smoothie.
- Toppings: You can make this even more decadent if you want my topping with a whipped almond milk!
- Plain Dairy-Free Yogurt: I used the Silk plain almond milk variety to make this smoothie! I was excited to find a “plain” dairy-free yogurt and it worked perfectly!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 smoothie
- Calories: 339
- Sugar: 44.7 g
- Sodium: 169.2 mg
- Fat: 1.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 68.5 g
- Protein: 17.4 g
- Cholesterol: 7.1 mg
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