Have your cake and drink it too with this delicious Sugar Cookie Protein Shake! It's made with a handful of simple ingredients and it tastes like a delicious vanilla sugar cookie. This recipe uses vegan pea protein, making it an amazing source of plant-based protein. Add some seeds or nut butters to the mix and you have a filling and satisfying shake that makes for a perfect healthy breakfast or post-workout treat.
Sugar Cookie Protein Shake Ingredients
- Frozen Bananas: Frozen ripe bananas provide fiber, healthy carbs, and natural sweetness to our sugar cookie protein shake.
- Milk: To keep this protein shake vegan and dairy-free, we used unsweetened almond milk. You can also use oat milk. If you are not vegan or dairy-free, feel free to use regular whole milk, skim milk, 1% milk, or 2% milk in this recipe.
- Oats: Oats provide healthy carbs and fiber to our sugar cookie protein shake! It also gives our sugar cookie protein shake a cookie-like taste.
- Protein Powder: We recommend using NUFYX vanilla flavored vegan protein powder in this recipe. If you are not vegan or dairy-free, feel free to use whey protein. Peanut Butter and Jilly is a partner of NUFYX because their protein powder has clean ingredients, is tested for heavy metals, contains digestive enzymes, is certified organic, and absolutely delicious! Use my affiliate code : PBJILLY for 15% off.
- Seeds: Adding chia seeds and flax seeds is a way to incorporate healthy fats and fiber into this smoothie which will make it more filling and satisfying.
Optional Ingredients
- Peanut Butter: Peanut butter provides healthy fats and a delicious peanut butter flavor to this recipe. Adding a small amount of healthy fats to a smoothie or protein shake will make it more filling, creamy, and satisfying.
- Maple Syrup: If you desire to have a sweeter protein shake, add about a tablespoon of maple syrup to your blender. A little bit will go a long way!
- Vanilla: Use this if your protein powder is unflavored.
- Sprinkles: Totally unnecessary! But, we find that the sprinkles make this protein smoothie look and taste even more like a sugar cookie.
- Greens: If you want to add another boost of nutrition to this already healthy shake, add a handful of spinach or kale before blending.
How To Make A Sugar Cookie Protein Shake
Step 1: Add the frozen banana, almond or oat milk, oats, vanilla pea protein, flax seeds, chia seeds, and nut butter or maple syrup (if using) to a blender. Blend until smooth and top with sprinkles. Enjoy!
Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! Make this the night before a busy morning or before your workout and store it in the fridge. I recommend waiting to add the sprinkles until you're ready to serve it.
I find that this sugar cookie protein smoothie is naturally sweet enough thanks to the vanilla pea protein powder and the overripe banana. If you desire more sweetness, add up to a tablespoon of maple syrup.
Sugar Cookie Protein Shake
Ingredients
Sugar Cookie Protein Shake
- 1 frozen ripe banana
- 1 tablespoon flax seeds or chia seeds
- ¼ cup oats
- 1 cup almond or oat milk
- 4 tablespoon vanilla protein powder
Instructions
Sugar Cookie Protein Shake
- Start by adding a frozen banana to your blender. Add the chia seeds, flax seeds, oats, milk, and protein powder. Blend until smooth and enjoy right away! If you shake is too thick to blend until creamy, add another 2 tablespoon of almond milk and then blend again.
Nutrition
The recipes on Peanut Butter and Jilly can easily be adapted to fit a vegan lifestyle, a gluten-free lifestyle, or both depending on the ingredients you use. Please review the ingredients lists carefully and refer to our recommendations in the Notes of the recipe card to make this recipe compatible with your needs. Nutrition information provided is an estimate, and will vary based on specific brands of ingredients used and cooking methods.
Courtney Infascelli says
The top says Sugar Cookie smoothie but above the recipe it says Oatmeal raisin cookie smoothie. Not sure which one this actually is. I was looking for the sugar cookie one.