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Obviously, I still have pie on the brain. Except that today’s pie is in drinkable form. I turned Banana Cream Pie into a skinny milkshake.
You’re welcome.
It’s now the middle of March, which means we are going to Hawaii in 3 months. Somehow in the next three months I have to satisfy my sweet tooth and be ready to be comfortable in a bathing suit for 7 days straight.
I’m not sure how I’m going to accomplish that, especially when I have things like this pie on the brain all the time, but I’m giving it a good effort.
{If by “good” I mean “eat allthethings” then I’m doing awesome.}
I could not stop thinking about banana cream pie after last week. And whenever I think about banana cream pies, I think about milkshakes. It comes from years of eating blizzards. I come by my addiction honestly. (Have you ever had a Banana Cream Pie blizzard?? OMG.)
So I decided to satisfy my craving…in skinny milkshake form. All the flavor, less calories. #thebestkindofrecipe
I know that, even though we’re encroaching on the actual start of spring, many of you are still covered in rain, sleet, and snow. Here in California, it’s been in the 70s and low 80s. Don’t hate me, mmkay? I’m just telling it like it is.
In fact, the annual “Jordan is nuts” photo happened this past weekend
The pool isn’t heated, BTW. Even Mel wouldn’t get in.
Anyway, all this warmer weather has me wanting ice cream and milkshakes. So I went off to recreate one of my favorite pies into a skinnier milkshake.
The key component of a milkshake is ice cream. Ice cream + dieting is kind of a no-no, unless you can stop at one spoonful. I can’t. Can anyone only eat one spoonful of ice cream?
I didn’t want to use ice in my milkshake because that would water it down, especially if I wasn’t using ice cream. And then I thought of a solution: International Delight Coffee Creamer. It comes in sugar-free fat-free varieties now and I love each and every flavor.
The new International Delight Fat-Free and Sugar-Free French Vanilla Creamer kind of tastes like melted ice cream. If you freeze it into ice cubes and then blend it into a milkshake…it’s kind of like adding ice cream with out all the fat. And 1 tablespoon is only 15 calories!
Once you make your ice cubes, making the milkshake is a breeze. A milkshake needs liquid to be able to blend up and be frothy and, well, milky, so I used nonfat milk. You can also substitute your favorite dairy-free milk to this recipe (unsweetened vanilla almond would be fantastic).
Because it’s a banana cream pie milkshake, I added some banana. Bananas are high in calories (unfortunately) so I just added 1/2 of a medium one. I amped the banana cream pie flavor up by adding a teaspoon of sugar-free instant banana pudding. Adding the little bit of pudding mix (dry) gives the milkshake an amazing and authentic banana cream pie flavor.
Let’s talk comparison. Last summer I made this Lemon Pie Milkshake. I hate doing this because who really wants to know, but that recipe (using real ice cream) has 388 calories, 15 grams of fat, and 47 grams of sugar per serving.
This Skinny Banana Cream Pie Milkshake has only 142 calories per serving (that glass shown is 2 servings) with 0.2 grams of fat and 10 grams of sugars. (Not including the part of a cookie; if you’re really trying to watch calories try adding a low-fat ‘Nilla wafer!)
I think this one wins. Plus, it has banana, which is fruit, which makes this breakfast.
Or is that going too far? 😉
Skinny Banana Cream Pie Milkshake
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons sugar-free fat-free french vanilla coffee creamer or your favorite flavor
- 1 cup nonfat milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 medium banana
- 1/4 cup fat-free whipped topping
- 1 teaspoon sugar-free instant banana pudding mix
- More whipped topping and a shortbread cookie for garnish
Instructions
- Freeze your coffee creamer in ice cube trays for at least 4 hours.
- Place coffee creamer ice cubes and all the rest of the ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth. Top with additional whipped topping and a crumbled shortbread cookie for garnish. Enjoy immediately.
- For an adult beverage, add a shot of rum or vanilla vodka!
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tried the recipe. the resultant mix was much thinner than i would have expected. is there any way to actually thicken this up to be more similar to a milkshake? more pudding mix? refrigeration/freezer prior to serving?
Try freezing the coffee creamer as ice cubes and using that to blend – that’ll make it more frozen.
I did use the frozen creamer in the attempt.
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