This Easy Carrot Cake Smoothie recipe is a healthy drink that tastes like a delicious slice of carrot cake! And…the best part: NO juicer is needed!
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This year, David and I started making fruit and vegetable smoothies at home.
We have a great blender (we love our Ninja Mega Kitchen System and highly recommend it), but we don’t have a juicer and we don’t have the room to add another appliance to our small kitchen. So, we rely on our blender for all of our smoothies. One vegetable we’ve want to use in our smoothies, but find it to be much more work without a juicer, is carrots.
One quick and efficient option we found when we want to include carrot juice in our smoothies to use ready-to-drink fruit and vegetable juices, like the ones by Bolthouse Farms. They’re carrot farmers with more than 95 years of farming experience. They not only grow carrots but also make over 30+ beverages, including everything from carrot juice to fruit juices and breakfast smoothies and protein shakes. They even have holiday eggnog and other seasonal drinks too.
The smoothie we usually make with carrot juice is this Carrot Cake Smoothie because carrot cake is my all-time favorite cake. Each year, my oldest makes me my birthday cake which is complete with carrots, pineapple, and walnuts….my favorite way of having it and inspiration for this smoothie. We add coconut too, just because it’s a favorite for both my husband and I and it goes great with this smoothie.
Once you have your bottle of Bolthouse Farms 100% Carrot Juice, you’ll be ready to blend up your smoothie in no time.
I use 12 ice cubes in this recipes, but you may like less or even more, depending on how thin or thick you like your smoothies.
Easy Carrot Cake Smoothie Recipe
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Carrot Cake Smoothie Recipe
Description
This Easy Carrot Cake Smoothie recipe is a healthy drink that tastes like a delicious slice of carrot cake! And, the best part: NO juicer is needed!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Bolthouse Farms 100% Carrot Juice
- 12 ice cubes (more or less depending on how thin/thick you like it)
- 1/2 cup pineapple chunks (frozen)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
- 1/4 cup walnut halves
- 1/4 cup flake coconut (we used sweetened)
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- Optional garnish: chopped walnuts (flake coconut, cinnamon, shredded carrots)
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a high powered blender in the order listed. Blend until smooth. Garnish as desired. Serve immediately.
- Category: Drinks
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2
Kendra @ www.joyinourhome.com says
This looks ahhhmazing! We drink smoothies in our home every day and I want to try this one! Featuring you at our party tonight… please join us again! 🙂
Emily says
Yum! I was on a smoothie kick for a long time, maybe this would restart that! Thanks for linking up to #HomeMattersParty
JoAnn @ SweetPepperRose says
Will be trying this as I also love carrot cake, and eating just plain ol’ baby carrots right out of the bag! Visiting thru DIY Dreamer party.
Audrey says
I could definitely go for this in the morning, or afternoon, or for dessert. I kinda have a thing for carrot cake.
Thanks for partying with us on #TastyTuesdays
Johanna says
Oooh, That’s a new one. I like the sound of it. I’m thinking, tomorrow’s breakfast?
Thanks for the idea!
Quinn Caudill says
I think I need to get on the smoothie kick. This would be a great way to start. Thanks for sharing with us at Throwback Thursday. Hope to see you again this week.
Petra @ CrumblesAndKale says
This looks great, love to be able to tell myself I’m having carrot cake for breakfast, even though it will be good for me 😉
Tammilee Tillison says
This sounds so good right now! I had never thought of using Bolthouse Farms in a smoothie. I can’t wait to try this.
Myrah - Coupon Mamacita says
Thanks to a recent coupon deal at Publix, I got to try it and it is great!
Tammi @ My Organized Chaos says
I bet that would be so good! Trying it!
Jeana says
Carrot cake is one of my favorites – what a creative way to have it!
Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy.com says
I’ve never had carrot cake but that smoothie looks delicious.
Ellen Christian says
Oh this sounds amazing. I need to try one for breakfast.
Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious says
Smart idea to start with the juice and do your own add-ins!