This 60-second recipe happened as a result of a major chocolate craving over the weekend. If PMS is good for one thing and one thing only it’s for inspiring many of my favourite recipes. This weekend, I was craving a secret-ingredient chocolate pudding like a crazy woman, but I didn’t have a couple of the ingredients on hand.
What’s a crazy woman to do?
I decided to make the best of the ingredients I did have and make a spin-off of this recipe: an all-natural chocolate pudding sweetened only with banana and medjool dates. Dates and banana are popular sweeteners in many raw avocado pudding recipes so I thought I would finally try it out myself. Instead of making this a super rich pudding like my last one, I lightened it up and made it in the blender!
It did not disappoint.
This recipe is a hybrid of a luxurious chocolate smoothie and a decadent-but good-for-you chocolate pudding. Is it a p’moothie or a sudding? Thankfully I dropped those names from the title.
Technically, it can serve 2-4, but if you are like me, you might find yourself eating most of the batch on your own. I understand those days…I really do.
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Crazy Woman Chocolate Blender Pudding
Yield
2 cups
Prep time
Cook time
0 minutes
Total time
Ingredients
- 1/2 large avocado, frozen (flesh only)
- 1 large ripe banana, peeled and frozen
- 1 cup almond milk
- 2 tbsp raw cacao powder or cocoa powder
- 2 medjool dates, pitted (or liquid sweetener)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- pinch of fine grain sea salt
- shaved chocolate and shredded coconut, to garnish
- 3-4 ice cubes, add until very cold
Directions
- This is the hard part: You need to freeze your banana and avocado beforehand! This results in an ice cream like texture, so it’s always a good idea to have some frozen bananas and avocado in your freezer for desperate times. If you simply cannot wait, then go ahead and make it with room temp ingredients, just amp up the ice so it’s super cold. But honestly, you have to try this with them frozen to really experience it fully! Trust me on this one.
- Add your almond milk first into the blender (always) followed by the frozen avocado flesh, frozen banana, cacao or cocoa powder, pitted dates, vanilla, and a pinch of sea salt (amazing). Process until smooth. Process in ice until very very cold (you don’t want this luke warm). Pour into parfait glasses, mini bowls, or into a huge glass all for yourself. Like I said, I won’t judge. Best served immediately!
Shaved dark chocolate is a very good idea.
So is inhaling some pudding immediately after the photoshoot.
It’s really a miracle I could wait that long.
Oh wow, that looks super good, I rarely have chocolate cravings but when I do, I need a fix! I will definitely be trying this soon :)
This looks so delicious! Thank you so much for bringing so many wonderful recipes into my life. Before finding your blog a year ago I never would have imagined how delicious and easy vegan cooking could be, you have transformed me!
PS I absolutely love the new banner! So fresh!
Thank you Ashley, that means a lot to me!
the new header is so fun!
and who doesn’t need some chocolate pudding on the fly? i don’t even think you have to be a crazy woman for that! :)
Love this post – looks so good! Now I really, really want to try to make a pudding with avocado’s.. it’s all I seem to hear about lately.
This looks delicious! Did you use your vitamix? I use a regular blender and was wondering if the dates process well without presoaking? If I don’t soak I usually get a mealy texture…
thanks!
Good question! My dates were super soft so I think they would work in any blender…I will certainly add a tip about soaking if they are firm. Thanks for the idea!
Oh my goodness, this looks phenomenal! I can’t wait to try this. Definitely will be one serving for this girl. :-)
This looks great! I love your pudding with avocado and almond butter. My absolute favorite recipe!
I NEVER would have thought to freeze avocado! This looks so tasty.
I still get a kick out of your healthy chia choc. pudding :) And I made a spinach, cocoa, broccoli smoothie this morning. You’d a been proud!
I have GOT to try this! Thankfully I think it will be just the time of month to do so… ;) Avocadoes are fabulous for females who are dealing with some hormone fluxes, and of course chocolate goes without saying!
I can’t wait to try this. This looks soooo yummy.
Yes, shaved dark chocolate sounds like a VERY good idea!
Oh my goodness! Your header is adorable!! I saw you tweet a picture of it.. but I always read your posts on google reader and decided to click to your actual website today.
So gosh darn cute!
Yumm.. that recipe looks delicious as always!!
Thanks Kate!
Hi Angela – this looks delicious and I definitely want to try it! Do you know what the calorie count would be per serving? Thanks :)
No Im sorry I dont, but you can try nutrition data website. Its a free program to calculate nutritional info.
This is so random but it sounds great!!!
Yum! I could sure use this once a month, and maybe even more! ;)
Sounds delicious as always! By, the way, I love the glasses! Perfect for serving!
I haven’t thought to freeze avocado, but I’m going to have to try it! I love adding it to smoothies to make them more pudding-like and if freezing them first can make everything creamier I can’t wait to try it.
Having some crazy woman PMS myself right now. Unfortunately when that happens, I usually turn into a hoover vacuum and eat everything in sight. Thanks for providing me with a chocolate option to hoover that won’t turn me into a bloated hephalump!
I think I may have to make this pudding for my lunch sometime this week! Do you know if it keeps? Or is that a silly question! I just mean if I make it the night before?!
It’s best served immediately for sure! I tried it later on and it wasn’t quite as good. I think it has something to do with the ingredients being frozen to begin with. Picture a ripe banana thawing and it gets a bit watery.
I live alone, so that’s the perfect justification as to why I have to eat the whole thing myself. ;)
Also, this is such good timing. I just bought avocados at the market and don’t know what to do with all of them. I didn’t even think of freezing them! Green smoothies (really I mean puddings) here I come!