Raw Chocolate Banana Shake (Print Version)

Raw cacao and ripe bananas blended with almond milk for a quick, creamy vegan shake—ready in 5 minutes.

# Ingredient List:

01 - 2 large ripe bananas, fresh or frozen, peeled

02 - 1 cup almond milk, or other plant-based milk

03 - 2 tablespoons raw cacao powder

04 - 1–2 teaspoons maple syrup or agave syrup, to taste

05 - 1 tablespoon chia seeds or flaxseeds

06 - 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

07 - Pinch of sea salt

01 - Place the bananas, almond milk, raw cacao powder, and sweetener into a blender.

02 - Add chia seeds, flaxseeds, vanilla extract, or a pinch of sea salt as desired.

03 - Blend on high speed until the mixture is completely smooth and creamy.

04 - Taste and adjust sweetness or cacao intensity to your preference.

05 - Pour into serving glasses and enjoy immediately.

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It legitimately tastes like a chocolate milkshake but takes five minutes and fuels you like a proper meal should.
The ingredients are probably sitting in your kitchen right now, waiting to prove that healthy does not mean boring.

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Frozen bananas will give you a thick, almost soft serve texture, while fresh ones create something lighter and more chuggable, so choose based on your mood.
A pinch of sea salt sounds strange in a shake but it is the single thing that takes this from good to something people will ask you to make again.

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Always add the liquid first and the bananas second so your blender does not seize up and leave you scraping unblended chunks off the blades.
The secret to the most chocolatey flavor is letting the cacao bloom by blending everything for a few seconds, stopping, then blending again, which somehow coaxes out a deeper richness.