Hot Cocoa Breakfast Shake

When do you drink hot cocoa cold?

When it’s in a breakfast shake, obvs.

And this is a pretty good one, according to my Brendan.  We’re very passionate about breakfast shakes… and not just for breakfast, mind you.  Mid-morning snacks, Lunch, dinner, after dinner, mid-night snacks, 3-am-can’t-sleep-because-i-missed-my-breakfast-shake-today time. Am I forgetting any other possible snacking time?

All of my “breakfast shakes” are really just UN-milkshakes.  They don’t have any milk in them at all. Well, almond milk, but no lactose milk if you really want to get technical about it. {and let me just say 15-year-old boys LOVE getting technical about things. Of course, you are probably not a 15-year-old boy, so I think I’m ok}

To make this Hot Cocoa breakfast shake, you’ll need some bananas, nut butter, almond or soy milk {or regular milk if you can do that}, 2 packets of hot cocoa mix, maple syrup or honey to sweeten, a few ice cubes and some marshmallows.  I’ll post the actual recipe below, so you can print it out and join my breakfast shake addiction club. Breakfast shakes served daily.

Dump everything in your blender.  I have the most amazing Ninja.

Pour in your hot cocoa packets.

Then whir it up until it’s nice and creamy.  I always have to add more milk to get the consistency just right.  So don’t be surprised if you need to do that too.

It pretty much tastes like a chocolate shake, but adding the marshmallows made it extra exciting.  {doesn’t take much over here.  think i could put marshmallows on spinach and they’d probably eat it.}

Here’s the recipe:

Hot Cocoa Breakfast Shake

Yield: 1 shake

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 2 minutes

Total Time: 7 minutes

A quick and easy hot chocolate breakfast shake with (mostly) healthy ingredients!

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Ingredients

• 2 banans - frozen
• 1/4 Cup natural nut butter
• 1 TBS Maple Syrup or honey
• 1 Cup Almond Milk
• 2 packets Hot Cocoa
• Handful of ice cubes
• Mini Marshmallows to garnish

Instructions

1. Dump everything in a blender and whir until smooth and creamy.
2. Add extra milk to get that milkshake-like consistency.
3. Garnish with marshmallows and serve immediately.
4. Or you can freeze it and it will harden like ice cream.

Hmm… maybe that’ll be my next breakfast shake.

Spinach and marshmallow.

Bleck. Maybe not.

But these breakfast shakes are totally awesome:

• Chocolate Pina Colada Breakfast Shake

• Sweet and Tangy Raspberry Breakfast Shake

• Almond Date Breakfast Shake

• Smooth and Creamy Pomegranate Breakfast Shake

• Pumpkin Spice Breakfast Shake

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