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Chocolate, Chai & Banana Milkshake

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Whenever we have milk that needs to be used it always tends to end up in some kind of milkshake or hot chocolate experiment. You may have noticed recently that I am a little bit in love with Chai so I decided to try making a milkshake including three of my favourite ingredients. Chocolate. Chai. Banana.

This is just chocolatey enough with a hint of banana and a layer of warming spice. It makes enough for one larger glass and a smaller serving..perhaps for a little one?

You will need:

Approx 400ml of milk
2 tbsp Chai Latte powder ( I used Baru Spicy Chai Latte )
2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
1 large ripe Banana ( chopped)

Chocolate chai milkshake

Pop all ingredients into a blender and blitz until smooth. You can sweeten if you like but I find most chai powders are fairly sweet anyway.

Take this up a notch with some vanilla whipped cream on top and a dusting of cinnamon..or make it even more indulgent with a scoop of chocolate icecream thrown in to thicken it up.

Chocolate chai and banana milkshake

Chocolate chai and banana milkshake

Enjoy it straightaway with a few biscuits…of course.

*In order to test this recipe thoroughly I tried warming it up and drank it as a hot chocolate which was surprisingly tasty but I definitely prefer it as a shake.

Snickers Milkshake

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In June I was very lucky to win a Vitamin Blender and I am sure I will be sharing recipes here on the blog including this Snickers Milkshake which you could also make using another blender of course but maybe use a high powered blender if possible.

Anyway I’ve had this mean machine for about 12 hours and I’ve made 4 different things.

First up I tried the vanilla ice cream from the Vitamix recipe book that came with it. Ice cream in a few minutes using just milk, sugar,vanilla and ice cubes. Yes please. It was really nice – I messed up the first batch as forgot to add sugar..it’s been a rather difficult day. Second batch was gooooood.

Then later on this eve I had an idea to make Snickers milkshake .. I first had a Snickers milkshake at Blissfields festival in 2011 where a really cool food/drinks stall made them using Vitamix style machines. I tried to recreate this myself last year using my Kenwood smoothie maker and well it wasn’t great but I had a feeling this machine was up to the job so here is the recipe.. Super simple as are all my recipes:

1.5 cups of milk – I used full fat
1 Snickers quartered
1 cup of ice cubes

Place all ingredients in the Vmix and turn on variable 1-10 before turning to high for approximately 60-90 seconds until smooth. Et voila. It tasted exactly like the ones I’d had at the festival. So good.

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I’ve also made a zingy lime smoothie and some incredible hot chocolate which I promise to share tomorrow but for now I need my bed.

Nanight x