Vegan Cacao & Ginger Smoothie / Overnight Oats

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It is no secret that I love eating desert for breakfast, which is why I always make my ‘smoothies’ extra thick - when you add oats and leave them in the fridge overnight, they come out the next morning basically as a mousse (ugh yum). This creation is one rich in chocolate with hints of spicy ginger, undertones of almonds and perfectly whipped with chocolate crunch. Even if you think you won’t like ginger in a drink (which I also did), you will love this.

Serves: 1 | Total Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 banana

• 50g oats* (if wanting overnight oats only)

• 125ml unsweetened almond milk*

• 1 tbsp (10g) cacao powder

• 15g smooth almond butter

• 1 thumb-sized knob of ginger, peeled and roughly chopped

• 1 pitted medjool date (optional)

• 1 tbsp cacao nibs

Optional nutritional extra: 15-20g vanilla or unflavoured vegan protein powder (this will make the oats thicker and a little like cake batter, yum!)

*(if you’d rather have a drinkable smoothie rather than a thick overnight oat smoothie, then simply omit the oats and add more milk)

Instructions

1. Place all the ingredients, apart from the cacao nibs, into a blender and blitz until smooth.

2. Now add in the cacao nibs, and pulse to break up the nibs. This gives the smoothie a slight delicious bite and crunch.

3. If making overnight oats, then place in the fridge overnight in a fastened jar and allow it to thicken. Open it up in the morning and enjoy!

Enjoy! Lots & lots of love.

P.S Please share with me on social if you made this, it really helps me a lot and I appreciate it more than you ever will know x