This quick and easy recipe for a delicious and healthy coffee smoothie will help you get your day started right!
If there’s one thing I love about smoothies is how quick and easy they are. To be honest, smoothies are not my favourite way to get my breakfast but 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.
You’ll need some cold coffee for this, so if you want to be ready to make this in the morning I recommend you brew some coffee the night before and refrigerate it so that its nice and chilled the next morning. This way you can be drinking your smoothie in 5 minutes.
I enjoy this smoothie just as the recipe is written, but you can add or eliminate ingredients depending on your own preferences. For instance, 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. And if you like your smoothie extra thick you may want to put in a full banana, but if you do, then you may also need to adjust the amount of the other ingredients. 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!
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup cold coffee
- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk or your favourite milk
- 1/2 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.
Nutrition
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 🙁
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.
I think I will make this after my run, sounds delicious!!
Eleanore
Doubletroublekitchenedition.com
Hope you liked it! Sorry it took a bit for me to reply, a couple of your comments ended up in my spam folder 🙁
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. 🙂
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!
Wow, this sounds like a perfect morning drink! I can’t wait to try it! 😀
Thanks Julianna!
I want one asap!!
I can go for one just about now as well 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
This is a great smoothie. I added half a ripe avocado to mine.
Thanks. What a great idea to add avocado to the smoothie!
That looks like one refreshing drink! Funny story–coffee makes me sleepy. Can you believe it? So annoying when I need to wake up! (Like right now when I’m supposed to be packing for my trip to Portland, and all I want to do is sleeeep.) 😉
Actually, sometimes if I have coffee in the evening, it will do nothing to keep me up either, I think it has to do with the warm drink. Enjoy your trip to Portland 🙂
I will! Thank you! (Still haven’t packed and it’s almost 9…hehe!)