Easy & Surprisingly Healthy Caramel Milkshake Recipe

This creamy caramel milkshake is a secretly healthy milkshake. Made with only 4 ingredients, it’s quick to whip up for a healthy breakfast, snack, or even dessert. It’s paleo, vegan, and so delicious!

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I have been having lots of smoothies lately because I am having some health issues lately related to my stomach. I have to be on a special diet right now and can’t have some of my favorite foods (chocolate! coffee! sob!)

I was getting bummed about the foods I could eat. I LOVE food and eating and even had a food business. So to have to have all these new restrictions (there are lots) was really disheartening. But I want to feel better. So I’m following the plan.

Today I decided that if I have to have certain foods and not others, I might as well start making some really delicious recipes to enjoy the foods I can have.

This caramel milkshake recipe has become one of my favorite treats and one of the most delicious milkshake recipes I’ve ever had!

It makes the perfect treat in the summer heat on hot summer days, or a healthy breakfast or afternoon snack.

It just takes a few simple ingredients!

For another really good milkshake, try this peanut butter and jelly milkshake.

Other healthy recipes to try when you want a snack:

Healthy banana bread mug cake

Double chocolate mug cake

Gluten-free almond joy scones

Healthy Caramel Milkshake Ingredients

Ripe banana

Dates

Milk

Almond butter

For the milk, you can use any kind you like: whole milk, almond milk, coconut milk, non-fat milk. Creamier milks make the most decadent milkshakes if you like a thick milkshake.

You can make this a peanut butter caramel milkshake by substituting peanut butter for the almond butter.

I think you will love this banana caramel milkshake.

The main ingredients come together and produce a kind of kitchen alchemy where the result is SO much more delicious than you’d expect.

Pour into tall glasses, and enjoy this yummy cold beverage!

The Best Caramel Milkshake Tips

The secret yummy whole food ingredient that makes this healthy milkshake taste like caramel? Medjool dates!

It’s the combination of the sticky and sweet medjool dates with the creamy almond butter that gives this healthy milkshake the caramel flavor. 

It tastes sweet and indulgent, but is secretly healthy and made with only whole food ingredients.  Total win!

Since caramel is the star of the show here and most of the caramel flavor comes from the dates, the kind you get is super important! 

It won’t be quite as yummy if you have those really dried out dates kicking around the back of your pantry. 

Medjool dates (these ones are amazing) are softer, richer, and sweeter and really make the caramel flavor in this healthy salted caramel shake stand out.

I like my milkshakes refrigerator cold, but if you like yours colder or a thicker milkshake, add the handful of ice cubes. 

You can also freeze the banana ahead of time; this will make the caramel milkshake colder and thicker. The banana helps give this caramel banana milkshake its creamy texture.

Add a splash of vanilla extract for extra flavor.

For best results either use your own milkshake maker or high speed blender; I don’t recommend using a hand whisk!

 Creamy Salted Caramel Milkshake Version

If you want to make this caramel milkshake a salted caramel milkshake, you can add a bit of sea salt when you’re blending everything together. 

I used about 1/16th of a teaspoon (I found 1/8 tsp too salty).  This ended up being about 2 big pinches of salt.

Healthy Caramel Milkshake Toppings

For an extra decadent treat, you can top your healthy caramel milkshake with whipped coconut cream (or whipped cream if you’re not vegan/paleo). 

For an added splurge, top with a drizzle of this caramel syrup. It’s a delicious caramel sauce make from whole foods. I haven’t found it in grocery stores so I buy in online and add a drizzle of caramel to this milkshake, or my morning coffee!

If you have 3 minutes, let’s make this yummy (and healthy!) sweet treat!

Another uh-mazing smoothie is this peanut butter and jelly smoothie!

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Have you ever made homemade shakes?