Healthy Milkshake

 

The Healthiest Peanut Butter Milkshake

This healthy peanut butter milkshake is made with only 4 ingredients, is gluten-free and vegan, and is arguably the tastiest milkshake you could ever eat.

If any time of the year deserves a little shake-up, it’s summer. We spend most of our year stuck in the daily grind of office life, sending kids to school, or even sending ourselves to school, all while the daylight gets shorter and the weather gets colder.

It’s easy to get into a rut. And it’s hard to pull yourself out.

Which is precisely why summertime means it’s time to let loose. Shake things up. Do things differently. Live life to the fullest. Enjoy every moment. Soak up the sun. Take our family to the beach. And laugh.

And also…enjoy those amazing summer treats! Today I want to share an updated version of one of my favorite treats: this healthy peanut butter milkshake. It's creamy, it's delicious, it's healthy and it's the perfect way to shake up your summer!

What is a Milkshake?

Before we talk about how to make this healthy milkshake, let's talk about what a milkshake actually is. A milkshake – or just shake as some people say – is a drink made from blending ice cream and milk. You can also add flavorings like syrups or extracts, but traditionally they're just plain milk with vanilla (or chocolate or strawberry) ice cream.

How Unhealthy is a Milkshake?

In general, I would say that a classic milkshake is fairly unhealthy, just based on how much sugar they contain. A medium vanilla milkshake (16 oz) from fast-food restaurants like Burger King or McDonald's is:

650+ calories

35+g of fat

50+g of sugar

So in general, they're not the healthiest, BUT you can definitely make a healthy version which is what we're doing today.

Vegan Peanut Butter Milkshake Ingredients

It probably sounds impossible, or at least counter-intuitive, to have a milkshake that tastes so good and is actually healthy. But I’m not in the business of making stuff up. It’s always my goal to create luscious treats that you don’t have to feel guilty about eating.

For this healthy peanut butter milkshake, you’ll need just 4 simple ingredients:

bananas

coconut milk

cinnamon

and peanut butter

And a food processor. No bowls, no mixing, no stirring, no freezing. Just process and slurp.

How to Make a Healthy Milkshake

There are a few tricks for making your milkshake healthy. Here are some of my ideas:

frozen bananas instead of ice cream

“lite” ice cream

almond milk instead of dairy milk

skip flavorings and/or any added sugars or syrups

When it comes to actually making your milkshake, it couldn't be easier! If you have a high powered blender, I think you can do this in a blender, but I like to use my food processor. Either way, you're going to dump all your ingredients into the appliance you're using, blend it up until it's smooth & creamy, and then serve!