Creamy Vegan Chocolate Milkshake – Minimalist Baker Recipes

Nothing hits the spot fairly like a chocolate milkshake. For us, the final chocolate shake is one which’s thick, creamy, and chocolaty, however simply subtly chocolaty…like drive-thru shakes. An equally wealthy and satisfying vegan model needed to occur!

Simply 7 easy components required for this nostalgic deal with, associates. Let’s make milkshakes! 

Tray with spoonfuls and bowls of cocoa powder, cashew butter, maple syrup, coconut milk, vanilla extract, and sea salt

Methods to Make a Vegan Chocolate Milkshake

This home made vegan chocolate milkshake isn’t your common blend-up-milk-and-ice-cream scenario. It’s constituted of scratch with easy, plant-based components.

We mix coconut milk with cocoa powder, cashew butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and sea salt. Meaning you possibly can alter to your most well-liked stage of chocolaty-ness and sweetness!

Coconut milk, cashew butter, cocoa powder, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt in a blender

As soon as blended, the combination turns into tremendous creamy and is able to pour into an ice dice tray to show it into “ice cream.” No ice cream maker or store-bought ice cream wanted right here!

Pouring chocolate coconut milk from a blender into an ice cube tray

Then, the following time you end up with a chocolate shake craving, you possibly can say hi there to chocolate shakes on demand! All you’ll have to do is mix the chocolate ice cubes with dairy-free milk (we like almond), and it’s shake time.

Pouring almond milk over chocolate milk ice cubes in a Vitamix blender

Get pleasure from as is, or high with dairy-free whipped cream, sprinkles, berries, shaved chocolate, or your favourite shake toppings!

Thick chocolate shake in a Vitamix blender

We hope you LOVE this vegan chocolate milkshake! It’s:

Creamy
Nostalgic
Customizable
Naturally sweetened
Straightforward to make
& Decadent like a drive-thru shake!

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Overflowing glass filled with a vegan chocolate milkshake topped with dairy-free whipped cream and sprinkles

Prep Time 6 hours 10 minutes

Complete Time 6 hours 10 minutes

Servings 2 (~1 cup servings)

Course Dessert

Delicacies Gluten-Free, Vegan

Freezer Pleasant 1 Month (in ice dice trays)

Does it maintain? Finest when recent

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CHOCOLATE ICE CUBES

  • 1 (13.5-oz.) can full-fat coconut milk (use a clean, creamy model // we used Discipline Day)
  • 2 Tbsp uncooked cashew butter (we like Artisana)
  • 3-4 Tbsp maple syrup
  • 1-2 Tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch sea salt (omit/scale back if utilizing salted cashew butter)

MILKSHAKE

  • Chocolate ice cubes (from above)
  • 1/2-1 cup dairy-free milk (plain, unsweetened // we used almond)

FOR GARNISH optionally available

  • Whipped cream of selection (equivalent to cashew or coconut)
  • Recent berries
  • Shaved chocolate
  • Sprinkles*
  • ICE CUBES: At the very least 6 hours earlier than you want to get pleasure from your shakes, put together the chocolate coconut milk ice cubes.

  • For the ice cubes, place the coconut milk, cashew butter, maple syrup, cocoa powder, vanilla, and salt right into a high-speed blender and mix till clean — about 1 minute. Style and alter, including extra cocoa powder or maple syrup if desired. Switch the combination to an ice cube tray — it ought to make ~14-16 standard-size ice cubes. Freeze for at the very least 6 hours.
  • MILKSHAKE: To a high-speed blender, add the entire coconut milk ice cubes, together with 1/2 cup (120 ml) of dairy-free milk (quantity as recipe is written // alter if altering batch dimension). Pulse or mix till the entire ice cubes have fully damaged down and you’ve got a thick, clean consistency. You could have to cease and stir just a few occasions to get it transferring, or add extra almond milk 1 Tbsp (15 ml) at a time till it mixes extra simply. Use the blender’s tamper if wanted, urgent down to assist it combine.

  • After getting achieved a thick and clean consistency, serve and luxuriate in instantly!

  • You may freeze leftovers again into an ice dice tray for an additional milkshake, or into popsicle molds for a creamy, chocolaty deal with!

*Loosely tailored from our Vegan Vanilla Gentle Serve.
*This shake is wealthy, decadent, and traditional. For a lighter model, you may use canned gentle coconut milk.
*Some manufacturers of sprinkles aren’t vegan pleasant, so you should definitely verify as wanted!
*Diet info is a tough estimate calculated with the lesser quantities the place ranges are supplied.

Serving: 1 cup Energy: 523 Carbohydrates: 32.2 g Protein: 6.2 g Fats: 41.5 g Saturated Fats: 32.6 g Polyunsaturated Fats: 0.2 g Monounsaturated Fats: 0.5 g Trans Fats: 0 g Ldl cholesterol: 0 mg Sodium: 132 mg Potassium: 540 mg Fiber: 1.6 g Sugar: 22.1 g Vitamin A: 0 IU Vitamin C: 0 mg Calcium: 150 mg Iron: 2.8 mg