The Best Healthy Chocolate Milkshake Recipe

This Healthy Chocolate Milkshake recipe tastes like a decadent chocolate milkshake made with ice cream, but it is made entirely from nutritious ingredients. It is super quick, easy to make, and refined sugar-free. Made with cocoa powder, honey, chia seeds, milk, banana, ice, and vanilla. Learn how to make a homemade healthy chocolate milkshake with this fast and effortless recipe.

Healthy Chocolate Milkshake: A Good-For-You Treat

If you are a chocolate-lover like me, you are going to simply adore this indulgent chocolate smoothie. It gets its thick and creamy texture from frozen banana, which becomes almost like ice cream when it is blended. This recipe makes a great breakfast or post-workout snack because it is quick, easy to make, and healthy.

This nourishing shake is infused with chia seeds, which are a great thickening agent because they expand when wet. In addition, chia seeds increase the nutritional value of the smoothie by adding fiber, Omega-3 fatty acids and protein. This shake is refined sugar-free as it is naturally sweetened with honey, which has a wealth of healing properties and is also a natural energy booster.

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How to Make a Healthy Chocolate Milkshake

To make this Healthy Chocolate Milkshake recipe, simply:

1. Add all of the ingredients – milk, banana, ice, honey, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and chia seeds – to a blender.
2. Blend until smooth and creamy.

Pro Tip: When adding your ingredients to your blender, always add the liquid (in this case, the milk) first near the blades. Doing this will help your blender to run a bit more smoothly whenever you are making a shake.

Possible Recipe Variations

This homemade chocolate milkshake recipe is very flexible with regards to variations. For example, feel free to…

• Use non-dairy milk: I generally use dairy milk when making smoothies, but you can use any kind of milk you like. Unsweetened almond, coconut, soy, hemp, oat, or any other type of plant-based milk are all excellent options.
• Add some spice: A pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg tastes great in smoothies.
• Swap in a different sweetener: Instead of honey, you can substitute another natural and unrefined sweetener, such as maple syrup or agave nectar. You can also throw in one or two pitted dates instead of a liquid sweetener.
• Add some collagen: Stirring collagen peptides into smoothies gives them a good dose of protein. Collagen is also known to improve the condition of skin, hair, nails, joints, ligaments, and is great for gut health. I recommend using one that is all-natural, unflavored, and unsweetened. I use this one from Thrive Market.

Those are just a few suggestions, so feel free to experiment with whatever ingredient swaps or additions that you would like. 🙂

More Healthy Shake and Smoothie Recipes to Try

Looking for more shake and smoothie recipes? Here are some of my faves:

• Breakfast Green Smoothie
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Shake
• Strawberry Banana Smoothie
• Simple Pear Smoothie
• Healthy Peanut Butter Milkshake

For this Healthy Chocolate Milkshake recipe, I recommend:

Using a Vitamix Blender, because it is the BEST blender for making smoothies! A Vitamix is a high-powered blender that breaks up frozen fruit, vegetables, ice and any other dense ingredients into oblivion – with no chunks and easy clean-up. The Vitamix blender is amazingly versatile, so you can also use it to make soups, sauces and homemade nut butters. You can check one out on Amazon here.

If you make this easy Healthy Chocolate Milkshake recipe, let me know! Leave a comment with a star rating ★ below, because I love hearing from you! ♡

Healthy Chocolate Milkshake

Alia | Everyday Easy Eats

This Healthy Chocolate Milkshake recipe tastes just like a decadent chocolate milkshake, but is actually good for you. Made with cocoa powder, honey, chia seeds, milk, banana, ice, and vanilla. 

5 from 2 votes

Print Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 5 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 2 servings

Calories 217 calories

Ingredients

 

US CustomaryMetric

• 1 cup milk, of choice
• 1 banana, peeled, sliced and frozen
• 1/2 cup ice
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

 

• Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth.

Notes

To make this recipe vegan: Be sure to use non-dairy milk and substitute the honey with maple syrup.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Healthy Chocolate Milkshake

Amount per Serving

Calories

217

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

5

g

8

%

Saturated Fat

 

2

g

13

%

Cholesterol

 

9

mg

3

%

Sodium

 

59

mg

3

%

Potassium

 

477

mg

14

%

Carbohydrates

 

41

g

14

%

Fiber

 

5

g

21

%

Sugar

 

30

g

33

%

Protein

 

6

g

12

%

Vitamin A

 

160

IU

3

%

Vitamin C

 

5.1

mg

6

%

Calcium

 

186

mg

19

%

Iron

 

1.3

mg

7

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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