Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Published 3/29/2021
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This Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie is packed with protein and even has a full serving of greens in it. The best part is, it’s healthy and tastes exactly like a peanut butter cup!
Love mixing up smoothies for a meal? Check out some of our most popular smoothie recipes like The Best Breakfast Smoothie or this Healthy Green Smoothie Recipe.
There really isn’t a better combination than chocolate, peanut butter, and banana. These three flavors together taste like dessert and we’re totally here for that.
Why Make this Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie?
You get your veggies and the deliciousness of a peanut butter cup all in one! Here is why we love this chocolate peanut butter smoothie.
Naturally sweetened- Say heck no to those sugar-packed juices and rely on the sweetness of the frozen fruit you use in smoothies. This chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie is sweetened solely with the frozen bananas used as the base.
Veggie Packed- Add an extra serving of vegetables to your meal in a cup. This chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie is packed with spinach and guess what? You can’t even taste it!
Pantry Staples- Smoothies are easy to mix together when you have all of the right ingredients in your pantry already. For this smoothie, make sure you have cocoa powder, peanut butter, almond milk, and flaxseed on hand at all times.
What You Need
The beauty about all smoothies on Fit Foodie Finds is the fact that we make fruit smoothies, meaning there is no ice involved!
- Frozen Banana: frozen banana is the base of this smoothie. Check out our guide to freezing bananas so you can be ready for smoothie making at any time.
- Peanut butter: any brand of peanut butter will work for this recipe. We love Smuckers All-Natural!
- Cocoa powder: Make sure to use unsweetened cocoa powder so that you’re not adding more sugar.
- Flaxseed: flax is a great way to add healthy fats and fiber, without altering the flavor of this chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie.
- Spinach: I promise you that you can’t even taste the spinach. Just make sure you blend blend blend so that the spinach purees and is hidden.
- Milk: any kind of milk works for this recipe. We prefer almond milk.
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Optional Add-Ins:
The great thing about this chocolate peanut butter smoothie is that it’s really good at masking the flavors of other add-ins such as more spinach and other veggies too! Here are some add-in ideas:
Protein Powder: Swap out a tablespoon or two of the cocoa powder for your favorite chocolate protein powder for more grams of protein.
Vanilla: add a splash of vanilla extract. This will enhance the peanut butter cup flavor.
Frozen Cauliflower: frozen cauliflower is a great veggie to add for more nutrients. I do this in almost all my smoothies and you can’t even taste it!
How to Blend a Smoothie
Blending a smoothie might be the easiest thing you’ve ever done!
- Place all ingredients into your high-speed blender. Make sure that your bananas are right out of the freezer.
- Blend on high for 1-2 minutes, adding more milk as needed. Blend until the smoothie is smooth with no chunks.
easy chocolate magic shell
Love the magic shell in those photos?! It’s so easy to make and will make your kids swoon over this chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie. Here’s what you need:
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
Directions: melt chocolate chips and coconut oil in a medium bowl. Then, dip the top part of your smoothie glass into the magic shell and immediately place the cup in the fridge for 10 minutes to harden.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 2 cups sliced frozen bananas
- 3 tablespoons all-natural creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
- 1 cup fresh spinach, packed (or more, if that’s your jam!)
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, or more, depending on how thick you like it
Instructions
- Place all ingredients into a high-speed blender.
- Blend on high until smooth, making sure there are no spinach chunks visible. You may need to add a little more almond milk depending on how thick/thin you like your smoothies.
Tips & Notes
- Easy Homemade Magic Shell: Melt 1/2 cup chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil in a medium bowl. Then, dip the top part of your smoothie glass into the magic shell and immediately place the cup in the fridge for 10 minutes to harden.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Wow these pictures are amazing and this recipe is perfect! I’m going to make this over the weekend for my family! How yummy 🙂
Um yes please! This is perfection.
This quite possibly be dessert tonight, though I don’t know about you, but I’m seeing one serving 😉
Haha 🙂 it has spinach in it!
I LOVE that you snuck some spinach into the chocolate layer! 😉 I can never say no to the peanut butter and chocolate combo!
That almond milk is my favorite – a staple in my fridge.
Me tooooo!
Holy cow, that is one gorgeous smoothie. I could easily have that as dessert and be totally satisfied.
Healht deaserts rule!!
Good good stuff 😉 Chocolate peanut butter ALL the time!
I bet you drank like 12 of these….k but fo real will you teach me how to smoothie layer? I’ll teach you how to omelette since I mastered it yesterday (thank you youtube).
o0o I can’t wait to see those photos! My would have been an ugly brown scramble.
there’s just something about smoothies with multiple layers. so beautiful but i’m too lazy to make them myself so how about you come visit and make me one? mmmm k?
😀 Going to be honest, my smoothies don’t ALWAYS look this pretty 😉
wait, if she’s going, i’m going! Smoothie date with squish. Lee can cook
LOL. You bring the balls.
Everything about this is Heaven. I can not wait to blend one up and dive in. I don’t think a day is complete without a little chocolate and peanut butter in your life!
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Is the cocoa powder unsweetened or sweetened?
Unsweetened!
I used unsweetened cocoa and it did not turn out well for me. Will try again with sweetened.
If you want it even sweeter, you could try Silk Sweetened Almon Milk!