Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Smoothie

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

This rich and creamy smoothie is blended with chocolate, peanut butter and bananas.

  • Serves: 2
  • Active Time: 5 mins
  • Total Time: 5 mins

  • Comments: 11
  • Views: 12019
  • Success 96%

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Step 1: Making the Smoothie

Making the Smoothie

To prepare the smoothie, add the peeled bananas, peanut butter, ice, cocoa powder, and milk to a blender. Purée until you get a thick milkshake-like consitency. Serve immediately.

*Instead of cocoa powder, you can use chocolate flavored whey powder, if desired.

**For the milk, you can use anything you like: whole, skim, soy or even rice or almond milk.

  • 2 whole ripe, peeled bananas
  • 4 tbsp peanut butter
  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder*
  • 2 cups milk**

Notes

To give your smoothie that much more nutritional balance try adding a few tablespoons of one of the following:

• hemp, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cashew nuts, almonds, goji berriers, coconut meat and/or raw cacao nibs

As well as a tablespoon or two of one of the following:

• virgin coconut oil, flax or hemp oil, extra-virgin olive oil

For added sweetness, if needed, you can add a tablespoon of one of the following:

• molasses, raw honey, agave or a few pitted dates

And for added protein add:

• 1-2 scoops of a quality protein powder

A good tip with bananas is once they are ripe, peel them and roughly break them up. Then freeze them so you always have some on hand. It also helps to make the smoothie that much colder.

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Jenni M

Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

My daughter(age 10) was drawn to this recipe. However, when it came time to make it and we watched the video, we were disapointed to find there were no set measurements stated for the ingredients. We winged it, and I do not believe it was as good as it could have been. Please add the amounts of the ingredients to this video. Thank you

Joe G
Rouxbe Staff

Ingredients for Smoothie

Sorry Jenni. The ingredients for all recipes are located in the preview player and the full recipe (using the Print/View Recipe button). This way you can print the ingredients out to have at your side when making the recipes. In voice-over, we do not say ingredient amounts so that people can scale the recipe (e.g. double it) without being confused by voice-over). We will however, try to improve the situation for you and others, so thank you for sharing. Joe

Debra G

Ingredients

When you say "cocoa powder", are you referring to unsweetned cocoa powder?

Joe G
Rouxbe Staff

Cocoa for this Recipe

We use unsweetened Debra, but if you have a bit of a sweet tooth, you could use either. Joe

Clumsychef W

For those who are lactose intolerant

Just tried this with soy milk plus 15ml white sugar and it turned out well. Rich and smooth as the recipe promised. The peanutbutter flavor shows well but I think it could use a bit more chocolate.

Casey P

It's Simple, Just Wing It.

I didn't have cocoa powder, but I did have syrup. The recipe provides a great overview and concept. I easily replaced the powder with a syrup and used frozen bananas instead of fresh ones (I almost always have bananas in my freezer). I recommend using smooth peanut butter instead of chunky to maintain consistency. Turned out great, thanks!

Deborah R

Variations

I make several variations of this smoothie,i.e. add 1tsp of instant coffee; substitute sugar free cocoa powder; non-fat milk, etc. to make it a really healthy breakfast shake, I add the above plus 1/4 cup of uncooked oatmeal (let it soak for a minute or two in the liquid), a serving of protein powder ,a splash of vanilla extract,and a dash of cinnamon.

Mebs S

First Timer

This would you believe it is the very first thing I have cooked, (well, made). Lets hope it taste as well as it looks. I'll let you know when I've tried it as I'm fasting at the moment.

Maria F

peanut butter banana smoothie

I just made this smoothie in a Vitamix 5200. I followed the ingredients exactly but it never thickened at all. Blended it for 2 minutes. What could have gone wrong?

By the way, I just enrolled 3 days ago and this is the first thing I've made also.

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

Re: Smoothie Not Thickening?

I am not sure why your smoothie would not have thickened—2 bananas, plus 1 cup of ice is enough to thicken a smoothie. Did you blend it for a really long time? Maybe you over blended it? Perhaps next time, add everything and then just start with 1 cup of milk and add more as needed. But again, 2 cups of liquid is generally what we use and we still get a very thick smoothie. Hope that helps. Cheers!

James S

Dash of vanilla

A bit of vanilla is very helpful in this recipe. Try it also without the chocolate but with the vanilla. We also use either of those combos with almond milk to make homemade ice-cream. After blending the base of banana, peanut butter, vanilla, and almond milk we add the base to the icecream freezer and then add chopped pecans. Invented it on a date with my wife a few years ago and it became a hit in the raw-food world. We call it Unbutternut Pecan Ice cream. Appreciate your talent and dedication Dawn.

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