Things That Make Me Happy:
1. Checking tasks off of my to-do list.
2. A clean house.
3. When I have to wake Meghan up from her nap and she’s still so sleepy she lets me rock her.
4. New clothes.
5. Finding fun home decorating ideas on Pinterest. (Can you say obsessed?)
6. Holding hands with my husband.
7. Putting something like carrots in a smoothie and having Meghan say, “Mmmmmm Mommy, this is good!”
It’s the little things, right? This smoothie is delicious enough to be a dessert, but healthy enough to be served for any meal or snack. It’s a uniting smoothie, too. Everyone in your family will like it from the vegetable haters to the vegetable lovers.
I know in yesterday’s post I said I was hanging on to summer and not ready for fall. Yet here I am featuring a recipe with some decidedly fall flavors: cinnamon, ground ginger, and nutmeg. The thing is, carrot cake is a dessert you can enjoy all year round. Wouldn’t you agree?
You’ll also notice I’ve added some raw oats to my smoothie. They are optional, but create a more substantial smoothie and boost the fiber.
I used a Vita-mix for this smoothie. It pulverized those carrots. If you don’t have a high-powered blender, I have a few suggestions for you to create this smoothie. You could shred the carrots first to make them easier to break down. Alternatively, you could used cooked carrots; I think this would be a great use for leftover cooked carrots. Either way, you need to give it a try!
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Carrot Cake Smoothie
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 2 large smoothies 1x
Description
A delicious and nutritious smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk (I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk)
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (optional)
- 3 carrots, cut into chunks (or see options above)
- 1 large banana
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- pinch nutmeg
- 1–2 tablespoons honey, agave nectar, or maple syrup, to taste (optional, not pictured)
- ice (you don’t need ice if you have a frozen banana and/or frozen almond milk)
Instructions
- Put everything except the ice into the blender. Blend until smooth (you’ll want to blend longer than usual to get rid of any graininess from the carrot). Add the ice and blend again until smooth.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Drinks
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 276
- Sugar: 19g
- Sodium: 285mg
- Fat: 10g
- Carbohydrates: 39.5g
- Protein: 7.5g
The banana sweetens this up nicely (and you can’t taste it), so you don’t really need any added sweeteners. But if you’re in the mood for an extra-sweet treat, add a little of your favorite sweetener to the blend.
I hope this smoothie makes you happy. Keep smiling!
Love carrot cake flavors as much as me? Try my carrot cupcakes and carrot cake cookies, too!
i will try this on this Ramadan Mubarak
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Carrot Cake had good taste and really very easy to make for every mother, maid & husbands.
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Wonderful recipe. Thank you.
You’re welcome!
This was delicious Maryea! We omitted the old fashioned oats, but added pineapple chunks (only because our carrot cake has pineapple in it). I also added a bit of unsweetened shredded coconut (also in our carrot cake), but it made the smoothie a bit grainy (I thought the VitaMix would blend it smooth). We’ll definitely be making this again. Thank you!
I love your additions! Sounds fabulous.
I haven’t tried carrots in my smoothies yet, but I always wondered how it would taste. Thanks for the recipe! It sounds delicious 🙂
With the right spices it tastes like carrot cake! 🙂
I’m interested in tryin’ this recipe out. Looks quite yummy!
I just tried this out and it turned out too grainy. 🙁 I guess my little time blender didn’t do a good enough job. I did use your tip of grating the carrots first. I think I’ll try it again sometime with cooked carrots. That would probably be a better texture for me! It had great flavor though!
Oooh sorry the texture wasn’t right for you. I’ll bet cooked carrots will be a lot smoother.
I definitely need to check this smoothie out, it sounds so tasty! Hmmm maybe it would be good come November for a healthier Thanksgiving dessert…
I love carrots! Looks delicious and a great smoothie for any day. I’ll have to serve this at our halloween block party! 🙂
I’m making this in about 10 minutes and I’m pretty excited. I’ll let you know how it went. 🙂
I recently looked through your old posts for some inspiring smoothie recipes and now I realised that this is just what I’m looking for! Can´t wait to make some for both my daughter and I. Yum!
Carrot cake + smoothie = a fantastic, brilliant idea! Do you think coconut milk would work in place of the yogurt?
I definitely think coconut milk would work. Or you could even just add more almond milk in place of the yogurt. If you freeze the bananas and/or almond milk, it will be creamy enough without the yogurt. I add yogurt for the probiotics more than anything else.
Yum!! Great idea…..think my kids would gobble it up 🙂 gonna have to try!
AWESOME! ….I’ll have to give them a try, since they are taste-tester approved 😉 YAY! I love carrot cake and these only seem like a natural thought to them!
We may try this for dessert tonight. I have a Blendtec so the carrots shouldn’t be a problem. Thanks for the idea. We’ve never tried carrots in a smoothie before. Can’t wait to give it a go with the kids.
What a fun recipe!!
Thanks so much for stopping by my site 🙂
I’m trying this one on the kids for sure 😀 Looks delicious! Although my blender isn’t so strong so I’ll need to use one of your tips. I’ll see how it goes, but I’ll wait for the carrots from my garden because for some reason they’re a lot sweeter than the ones from the store. I was going to say on your last post, I’m not over summer completely but I do crave winter flavors like this, especially the spices. And I really want to have a pot of soup on the stove all afternoon and bake bread all day and roast squash, but that’s not happening till it cools down a little. But I’m not minding the heat 🙂 It cools down fast so I better hang onto it!
Never have tried carrots in a smoothie, yet….spinach, but no carrots…..mmmmm…..
I am not the biggest fan of carrot cake. It’s really good, but I would just choose sweet potato or pumpkin pie over it. Or chocolate and peanut butter!
Mmm pumpkin pie is another favorite of mine!