Chocolate Pumpkin Smoothie
This creamy Chocolate Pumpkin Smoothie is the perfect taste of fall! With pumpkin, cocoa, and a touch of spice, it’s rich, cozy, and easy to make in minutes. Enjoy it for breakfast, a snack, or even a treat, and you can even sneak in some leafy greens for a double dose of veggies!
Delicious Details
- Cuisine Inspiration: American
- Primary Cooking Method: Blender
- Dietary Info: Gluten-free, Dairy-free option
- Skill Level: Easy
If you’ve never combined pumpkin and autumn spices and chocolate, you’ve gotta try a chocolate pumpkin spice smoothie. It really might be one of the best gluten-free pumpkin recipes because you get all that pumpkinny flavor without a lot of effort. I mean, just because you are craving pumpkin doesn’t mean you have time to make a pumpkin pie!
About that pumpkin and chocolate combo – I was skeptical at first. Even the combination of chocolate and spice was a little strange to me until I became obsessed with Mexican Chocolate Oatmeal. But once I tried it, I realized how inspired a flavor pairing it is. If you don’t want to commit to a full Gluten Free Chocolate Pumpkin Bundt Cake just yet, then dip your toes in the water by trying this twist on a pumpkin pie smoothie.
Creamy Chocolate Pumpkin Smoothie
Here’s why you’ll love this wonderful fall-flavored smoothie…
- Easy to customize. You can adjust the thickness or sweetness, blend in additional protein or greens or other ingredients, depending on what you are looking for, and even make it without dairy.
- Chocolate and pumpkin will blow your mind. I can’t put my finger on it, but it just works. No one flavor overpowers the other, and they all work in a glorious harmony.
- Simple ingredients. With pumpkin and the optional spinach or other dark, leafy greens, you have the opportunity to get in two servings of veggies. Greek yogurt and frozen banana make it sweet and creamy. And spices make that pumpkin really shine!
Recipe Ingredients
Here’s a brief rundown of what you’ll need to make this chocolate pumpkin smoothie, plus some substitutions and additional items you can blend in, if you choose. Scroll down to the recipe card for the full amounts and directions.
- Milk: You can use dairy or nondairy. I use unsweetened almond milk.
- Pumpkin puree: Just plain pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling.
- Pumpkin pie spice: You can make your own pumpkin pie spice, use one that you purchase, or just add cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
- Cocoa powder: I just use Hershey’s but you can also use a cacao powder.
- Greek yogurt: You can use plain or vanilla, but you’ll have to adjust the amount of yogurt and banana depending on which you choose to get the right sweetness and consistency. To make it vegan, use nondairy yogurt.
- Frozen banana: A nice, ripe one, cut into chunks. You’ll need half if you use sweetened yogurt, or the full one if you use plain.
- Dark leafy greens: This is optional. I like to use baby spinach because it completely blends up and disappears, and you don’t taste it at all. But you can use kale or any other green.
- Ice cubes: Adjust to your desired thickness and consistency.
Add-ins: Feel free to add chia seeds, flaxseed, hemp seeds, collagen powder, protein powder, or any other similar mix-ins to meet your needs!
Now just add all of the ingredients to your blender and blend until smooth. You can add additional ice or milk if you need to adjust the thickness to your preference. Pour it into a glass and enjoy right away!
More Chocolate Smoothie Recipes
Chocolate smoothies are a perfect way to enjoy a treat. There are so many ways to make them, too!
Chocolate Pumpkin Smoothie
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsweetenend almond milk, or regular dairy milk
- handful of baby spinach , kale, or other dark, leafy greens (optional)
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 2/3 cup container vanilla Greek yogurt (one 5.3 oz. container) OR 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- half of a frozen ripe banana , cut into chunks if you use the vanilla yogurt, or a full frozen banana if you use the plain
- 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or use 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ginger, 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, pinch cloves
- 3-4 ice cubes
Instructions
- Add the 3/4 cup unsweetenend almond milk, handful of baby spinach, 1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree, 2/3 cup container vanilla Greek yogurt , half of a frozen ripe banana, 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, and 3-4 ice cubes (see Note) to your blender and blend until smoothie, adding addiotonal ice or milk to adjust to our desired consistency and texture.
- Pour into a glass and enjoy immediately.
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You can’t even tell by the color that there’s any chocolate in there! My girlfriend is going to love this.
Enjoy!
Im not a fan of pumpkin. Maybe this will do it for me I’ll be making this soon.
Not gonna lie, you do still taste the pumpkin. Maybe it’ll convert you, though.
You must have read my mind! I have wanting a chocolate pumpkin smoothie! Thanks for sharing your ways:-)
Glad if could help 🙂
Yummy – what a fab combination: Chocalte and Pumpkin!
I’m totally a salad girl for lunch but these smoothie looks great! I go through phases of trying to do one to two smoothies a day but I get bored. This smoothie would spice things up for me!
I’m a salad girl too, but sometimes I just don’t get to sit!
Very creative recipe. Looking forward to trying this one. I also like your photography.
Thanks so much!
do you use unsweetened cocoa powder or sweetened?
I use unsweetened.