Maple Pecan Pie Smoothie
from The Blender Girl Smoothies bookAugust 21, 2010
This maple pecan pie smoothie from The Blender Girl Smoothies book tastes like pie a la mode. Blend it up in 5 minutes!
Vegan Maple Pecan Pie Smoothie
This maple pecan pie smoothie from The Blender Girl Smoothies book tastes like pecan pie a la mode, and you can blend it up in 5 minutes!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 2 16-ounce glasses
Calories 580 kcal
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (360ml) filtered water
- 1 cup (110g) raw pecans, soaked and drained
- 3 tablespoons (45ml) pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) natural vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon (1g) ground cinnamon
- 2 medium-sized frozen sliced bananas
- 1 cup (125g) ice cubes
optional boosters
- 1/2 cup (60g) frozen raw cauliflower florets
- 1 tablespoon (9g) shelled hemp seeds
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) flax oil
- 1/2 teaspoon (1g) probiotic powder (see notes)
- Pinch of Celtic sea salt (see notes)
Instructions
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Throw all of the ingredients into your blender (including any boosters) and blast on high for 30 to 60 seconds until smooth and creamy.
Recipe Notes
Recipe from The Blender Girl Smoothies book
Comments 12
Hey Aditee! Sorry for any confusion caused. I meant to add a link to my “Why soak nuts” page. You don’t need to soak the pecans in order to enjoy this smoothie. I just recommend soaking them in some filtered water to remove the enzyme inhibitors and make them more digestible.
One of the best smoothies ever! Such a treat for breakfast. Yum!
OMG — this seems so decadent! It certainly was a treat for my daily breakfast smoothie. Thanks for the recipe!
Hi there,
I’m the editorial manager for Made Just Right (.com), Earth Balance’s website about plant-based eating. I’d love to feature this recipe or some of your others. Can you please contact me as soon as you can so we can go over details?
Thanks,
Amber
afonzen@eqal.com
Hey Amber
I just sent you an email.
I would love you to share my recipes with your readers.
It is lovely to be connected =)
We will talk more. Oink Oink!
OMG! tried this for breakfast and it was amazing! Just one question…how do you freeze your bananas? Don’t they turn black?
Hey Piggy Jolly.
Glad you liked this smoothie recipe.
I think it is piggilicious…..
I always freeze my bananas whole with the skin on. When I am ready to use them for vegan smoothies I simply run the whole frozen banana under warm water to slightly soften the skin and then use a sharp knife to remove the skin and cut up the banana in chunks to throw into the blender. Welcome to the piggy world!
LOL! No worries. I am sure there are spelling mistakes ALL over this website 🙂
I am so pleased you enjoyed this smoothie.
It is one of my favourites!
I just made this with a couple of modifications (added 1 cup romaine lettuce and subbed a squirt of liquid stevia for one of the tablespoons of maple syrup), and both my spouse and I agree that it tastes like coffee-flavored liqueur (like Kahlua). How that combination tastes like Kahlua, I have no idea, but we like it. I just thought I’d let you know about that odd but tasty result. I might end up blogging about it.
Thankyou so much for letting me know about your blend. It sounds delicious. It might be the combination of the bitterness of the romaine, the stevia, and the maple syrup with the nuts? I had a similar thing happen when I made the pina colada green smoothie with dandelion greens. The bitterness of the greens made it taste like their was a nip of rum in it. i think we are onto something. LOL! Happy New Year.
Do you have a nutrition breakdown for this? Sounds decadent!
Lesley, I am sorry, I don’t do nutritional profiling for the recipes on this site. However, this recipe is featured in The Blender Girl Smoothies app that launches next month, and there are nutritional breakdowns for all of those recipes. Until then, you can plug it into third party software like cronometer.