This vegan vanilla smoothie tastes EXACTLY like a vanilla milkshake. But really, it’s a smoothie! With right around 12 grams of natural plant-based proteins – no protein powder, no problem.
Please allow me to digress with a little shake vs. smoothie talk for a moment.
For awhile, I was putting ice cubes into my shake/smoothie recipes and calling them smoothies. Then I realized that smoothies don’t usually contain ice, but shakes do. Except milkshakes don’t. So basically, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t know the difference between a smoothie and a shake.
What I do know is that this Vegan Vanilla Cashew Smoothie tastes like a freakin’ vanilla milkshake! Oh wait – I already said that. Sorry. I’m excited.
All summer long, I’ve been going crazy for this Tastes Like Ice Cream Kale Shake from The Blender Girl. The. Best. Green smoothie. EVER. I was convinced I would forever prefer the more-neutral spinach in my green smoothies until this one came along.
I love my kale smoothies, but this time, I felt like something a little different. Plus, I was fresh out of kale. So I came up with this new version, using some of the genius ingredients/methods found in The Blender Girl’s kale shake recipe:
So yeah. A healthy, plant-based shake that pretty much tastes like a vanilla milkshake that you’d get from the best burger place in town. That’s a win right there. The fact that it’s full of satisfying protein is the (proverbial) cherry on top.
I should have totally put a cherry on top for these photos. Let’s just pretend it’s there.
(Yay faux milkshakes!)