This easy recipe for a delicious, creamy and healthy iced Coffee Smoothie includes peanut butter, chocolate and banana. It's perfect for breakfast and will help you get your day started right!
If there's one thing I love about smoothies is how quick and easy they are. Though smoothies are not my favourite way to get my breakfast, there are days when all I have time for is a smoothie. And if I can incorporate my coffee into a smoothie then I'm a happy woman.
How to Make it
This smoothie recipe is adaptable to suit your preferences. You can add or eliminate ingredients depending on your own likes and dislikes.
Ingredients Overview:
- Coffee. You'll need cold coffee for this smoothie. If you want to drink this smoothie first thing in the morning, you'll need to use cold-brew or instant coffee or espresso granules.
- Unsweetened almond milk. Or your favourite milk.
- Banana
- Peanut butter. Natural or regular peanut butter will work.
- Cocoa powder
- Honey or other sweetener. If you don't like your coffee sweet you may leave out the honey from the recipe entirely or if you like it extra sweet then you may want to add a bit more. You can also use maple syrup, sugar or another sweetener instead of honey for a vegan coffee smoothie.
- Ground cinnamon
- Ice cubes
If you want an extra caffeine kick you can add an extra teaspoon of instant espresso, it will dissolve and blend in perfectly without a trace of any coffee grinds.
Steps Overview:
To make the smoothie, add the ingredients to the jar of your blender. Blend on high until the ingredients are well blended. Taste to adjust sweetness to your liking and serve immediately.
And if you like your smoothie extra thick you may want to put in a full banana or add more peanut butter.
If you are a fan of anything coffee flavoured then you will want to take a look at this Mascarpone Espresso Cream and Amaretti Parfaits. It's a no-bake dessert that's perfect for those hot summer days.
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Coffee Smoothie
Ingredients
- ½ cup cold-brew coffee or dissolve one to two teaspoons of instant coffee in a bit of hot water, stir and add enough cold water to get half a cup.
- ½ cup unsweetened almond milk or your favourite milk
- ½ banana
- 2 tbsp. natural peanut butter or regular peanut butter
- 1 tbsp. cocoa powder unsweetened
- 2 tsp. honey or other sweetener
- dash of cinnamon
- 1 cup of ice cubes
Instructions
- In a blender, add cold coffee, almond milk, half a banana, peanut butter, cocoa, honey, a dash of cinnamon and 1 cup of ice cubes.
- Blend on high until all ingredients are well blended.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
- If using instant coffee, dissolve one to two teaspoons of instant coffee in a bit of hot water, stir and add enough cold water to have half a cup of coffee.
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Jess
Wednesday 25th of March 2015
This sounds awesome! Can't wait to try it but is there anything I can use to sub the banana? Not a fan of bananas :(
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits
Thursday 26th of March 2015
Hi, I completely relate, I'm not a fan of bananas either. I find a great thickener for smoothies is Greek yogurt. You can even freeze your yogurt in ice trays. Once frozen transfer the cubes into a freezer bag for use later on. Freezing the yogurt gives the smoothies a really nice texture. I would start by using 4 cubes per serving and add more if you feel you need to.
Eleanore Brickell
Sunday 28th of September 2014
I think I will make this after my run, sounds delicious!!
Eleanore Doubletroublekitchenedition.com
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits
Thursday 2nd of October 2014
Hope you liked it! Sorry it took a bit for me to reply, a couple of your comments ended up in my spam folder :(
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Tuesday 29th of April 2014
love this! it's been cold here but ice coffee season is soon to be upon us and we need all we can get to survive dc summer. :)
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits
Tuesday 29th of April 2014
The weather hasn't been very spring like here as well, I'm hoping things will change soon and I'll have more opportunities for cold drinks!