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.
Just made this and it was to die for! I thought about not adding the ice cubes since everything was already frozen but Im glad I did. It was like a pudding pop in a glass. I used powdered steevia to sweeten it a little more because my sweet tooth cannot be tamed. Thank you so much for this recipe! Choco fix – solved.
Thats great to hear Amanda! Im making another batch tonight….dun dun dun
Oh my. I tried this recipe mostly out of curiosity, and it blew my mind! It tastes like soft serve chocolate ice cream! I made it this morning for breakfast before work because I thought, you know what? I think it’s going to be one of those days…. yes, I ate it all. It was crazy good, and I don’t even follow a vegan diet. :)
Do you think there’s a way to make it without the avocado? I love those things, but they give me a wicked stomachache. Maybe by substituting more banana…? I’ll also definitely try the chocolate smoothie recipe one of your commenters posted!
yup I think more banana would work :)
Chocolate and avocado? I’m game :)
This was delicious! Thanks so much Angela!
Hey Kelly, Thanks for letting me know!
OH MAN I am SO making this this weekend. In fact I am walking to my kitchen and freezing a ripe banana and avocado right now.
You rock my world!
I just made this…I cannot believe how good it tastes!!! However, it didn’t blend completely. I don’t have a Vitamix (just an ordinary blender). I didn’t mind the chunks of dates left behind though:)
Im happy you enjoyed it!
No Vitamix here either.
I added a dash more of almond milk whenever the blender seized up. Also to get it to point I could pour (slide?) from blender. Didn’t add ice.
Tasted phenomenal!
I made this last night for my picky toddler eaters and everyone LOVED it. It tasted just like chocolate ice cream :) They got a ‘treat’ and I got the satisfaction of knowing they were getting some protein and healthy fat! Thank you.
wow thats a score! Glad to hear it
What an amazing recipe! :D I love how you used both an avocado AND a banana — I bet it tastes INCREDIBLE!!! <3
Just made this…aaaah. A great way to relax after a long week! Thanks, Angela!!
enjoy Ruth!
I am not a pudding fan but after seeing this recipe, I knew I had to try it. To me, it’s really not like pudding at all, more like soft serve ice cream only healthy!!!!! And way more delicious! I added shredded coconut to the mix too. Mmmmm. Super yummy!
Glad it passed the test!
This is incredible! Might have to buy a Vitamix just so I can make this on a daily basis. My blender took forever to mix this up and it left bits of date throughout. Regardless, it was amazing. Can’t wait to make it for my 3 year old as she loves chocolate pudding. This is so much healthier. Oh, and it was one serving for me (easily)!
No Vitamix here either.
I added a dash more of almond milk whenever the blender seized up. Also to get it to point I could pour (slide?) from blender. Didn’t add ice.
Tasted phenomenal!
I made this for The Wife a few weeks ago and she loved it! I completely shocked her with the ingredient list. The kitchen was a mess (shaved chocolate everywhere as I rushed to serve it cold) but it was worth it.
Any other ideas for using medjool dates? I wanted to buy the fresher, soft ones but it was a container of 15+ so I bought dried instead. The softer ones probably would have been better. I did forget to soak them…I’ll try that with the dried ones next time.
Hey Matt, Sounds like my own kitchen (a big mess! ha) I’m glad that your wife enjoyed the pudding…so nice of you to make it for her! As for date recipes, here are a some on my recipage: http://ohsheglows.com/recipage/?search_term=dates&ui=133
This was so good after a hard run! I didn’t add any dates, because I was out (yeah, 75% of the time I never have the proper ingredients for what I want to make), but this was so unbelievably creamy and smooth. Oh goodness… so good!
I had this this morning, minus the vanilla extract since I have the imitation stuff and don’t want to ruin a perfectly healthy dish with artificial flavors (I’m making my own real vanilla extract soon, so excited!).
I had the frozen avocado since I saw this recipe a couple weeks ago, but I used up all my frozen bananas last night by making some strawberry banana soft serve–I’m putting my new kitchenaid food processor through its paces–so I put a few teaspoons of chia seed in and let it sit in the fridge for 10 minutes or so to firm up. And oh is it amazing! Chocolate for breakfast is my favorite! (I normally do your vegan overnight oats with cocoa powder) Sooo good.
Glad to hear that Kimberly!
I made up a batch of this pudding yesterday but did not eat it (except for licking the spoonds and cleaning out the blender!) – Instead, I poured it in to popsicle moulds to freeze! We have just tested them out and they are delicious! Just like a chocolate-banana fudgsicle… perfect for this hot summer day :)
If you were to use maple syrup instead of dates how much would you use?
Also, how do you freeze your avacados? Do you just throw the whole thing in the freezer?
I was going to ask this same question. I pre-cut my avocado and diced in the skin prior to freezing….I thought that would be enough prep. But removing skin after freezing wasn’t fun. While trying to scrape the skin off with a spoon, I managed to create a projectile and half the avocado flew up and smacked me in the face.
I finally got around to trying this and I actually didn’t have as much trouble with the avocado as I anticipated. I just cut it in half, removed the pit and threw it in the freezer, and although it was hard as a rock when I took it out, I found that submerging it in hot water for about 30 seconds made it easy to peel the skin off while the flesh remained frozen.
That looks like a bit of heaven. How come mine never look so good when I make stuff like this? You must have the touch…
Just made this pudding for my family and — in spite of neither the bananas nor the avocado being completely frozen, forgetting to put in the vanilla, and using maple syrup in spite of dates — hubby and kiddies LOVED it. They wanted to know if I added whipped cream to it. This is not the first of your recipes we`ve tried, and they`ve all been a hit. Thank you!!!
Hey Joanna, So glad to hear this!! Thanks for your comment.