Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana (Printable Version)

Decadent chocolate and peanut butter blended with banana and milk for a creamy, ready-in-five-minutes treat.

# What You Need:

01 - 2 ripe bananas, peeled and sliced, preferably frozen

02 - 1 cup milk or non-dairy milk of choice

03 - 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter

04 - 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

05 - 1 to 2 tablespoons honey or maple syrup, optional, to taste

06 - 1/2 cup ice, about 6 cubes

01 - Add the sliced bananas, milk, peanut butter, cocoa powder, and honey or maple syrup if using into the blender.

02 - Toss in the ice cubes on top of the other ingredients.

03 - Blend on high speed until the mixture is smooth and creamy, about 30 to 45 seconds.

04 - Taste the smoothie and add more honey or maple syrup if a sweeter flavor is desired, then blend briefly to incorporate.

05 - Pour into glasses and serve immediately. Garnish with banana slices or a drizzle of peanut butter if desired.

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Frozen bananas do all the heavy lifting, making it thick and milkshake-like without any ice cream or guilt.
It tastes like a peanut butter cup had a baby with a banana split, and it takes less than five minutes from thought to glass.

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Do not use green or barely yellow bananas, they lack the sugar needed to balance the cocoa and you will end up with something bitter and weirdly fibrous.
Peel your bananas before freezing them unless you enjoy the humbling experience of chiseling a frozen peel off a rock hard banana at dawn.

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Freeze your bananas in slices laid flat on a parchment lined plate for an hour before bagging them, they blend faster and more evenly than whole frozen chunks.
A tiny pinch of salt in the blender makes the chocolate and peanut butter flavors explode in a way that catches people off guard every time.