Salted Caramel Coffee Smoothie

This smoothie is a great breakfast treat or afternoon snack. It is quite sweet, but both sources of sweetness (bananas and dates) are whole foods that contain fiber which helps lessen the blood sugar spike (aka this smoothie is healthier than drinking a milkshake for multiple reasons even though it tastes like one!) The coffee and sweetness are a great pick-me-up! Feel free to add a little bit of nut butter to make this a bit more filling and balance out the sweetness a bit.

If you don’t have a high powered blender, you can soak your dates in warm water for at least 30 minutes prior to blending. To be honest, I enjoy little chunks of dates if not perfectly blended because they taste like little bits of caramel!

Hope you love it!

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Salted Caramel Coffee Smoothie

Yield: 1

Author: MADELINE APPEL

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 bananas
• 2 pitted medjool dates
• 1 cup oat milk, or non-dairy milk of your choice
• 1 packet of Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee, or 1-2 tsp. instant coffee
• 1 heaping spoonful of plant-based protein powder (I recommend Vivo Life Perform in Madagascan Vanilla [their Salted Maca Caramel would go even better with this recipe!])
• a pinch of salt
• a handful of ice

Instructions

1. Throw everything into a blender and blend until smooth!