All I want for Christmas is youuuuuuuu. And gingerbread.
And a Vitamix, duh.
I'm actually Jewish so my holiday has sadly passed. But I still want gingerbread. I want it all up in my coffee and I want it in my smoothie.
Since pretty much all I eat all day everyday is roasted sweet potatoes in some form or another (kidding....kind of), obviously Miss Sweet Tater landed her sassy self into this sip of heaven.
And since blackstrap molasses is such a fab source of iron, I'm just going to use that as my excuse for consuming weirdly large amounts of it this season. I've yet to come up with a nutritional excuse for how and why I plow through 32 ounces of pure maple syrup in like t minus five seconds, but I'm working on it. Ummm it comes from a tree?
And can we put alllllll the cinnamon sticks in everything? OMG. Such a festive touch.
Do yourself a favor and call this breakfast. Just make sure to have a few roasted sweet potatoes on hand like I tell you to in every other post. It's really quite a simple process. I would know--I do it every week. Wash a few sweet taters. Pierce them a few times with a fork. Roast at 400F for an hour. BADA BOOM. Use a couple for baked sweet potatoes with salsa and fried egg, a few in maple orange mashed sweet potatoes and the rest in this heaven that I like to call a smoothie.
You can thank me later. Hopefully I haven't turned into a gingerbread [wo]man by then.
Sweet Potato Gingerbread Smoothie
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 mins
- Yield: 1 1x
- Category: Drinks
- Method: Blender
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten Free
Description
A deliciously creamy gingerbread smoothie sweetened with roasted sweet potato and pure maple syrup.
Ingredients
- ½ cup roasted sweet potato, peeled and mashed
- ¾ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tsp molasses
- 1 tsp pure maple syrup
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ + ⅛ tsp ground ginger
- pinch of nutmeg and cloves
- 2 ice cubes
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
Anneli says
Hi! I just found your site by reading Olena @ https://ifoodreal.com/ posts on facebook. I love sweet potato's and smoothies. Never thought to combine them. I'll have to try it! Love your site! Anneli
Alexis says
So glad you found me, Anneli! Let me know if you give it a try 🙂
Anneli says
I made the smoothie and it was delicious! Almost tasted like pumpkin pie to me. I'm going to make some more for my husband... I drank it all 🙂 My daughter wasn't fan because she doesn't like the pumpkin or sweet potato taste. Definitely a great use for all those leftover sweet potatoes we have. Anneli
Alexis says
Only unrefined blackstrap molasses does....crazy huh?! All the more reason to gulp in down in a sassy sweet tater smoothie!
Alexis says
OMG, pure Canadian maple syrup sounds like all kinds of delicious!!
Alexis says
I don't have a vitamix, but I'm dying to own one!! Gahhhhhh!
Ang @ Nutty for Life says
I need to get my butt to TJ's to buy some of that coffee! Holy cannoli! I added sweet potato into my smoothie once and it was sooooo filling. I am sure this one is delish. Cinnamon sticks are so pretty. It makes me think about oranges with cloves stuck in them. (Not sure how I made that connection but they're also pretty haha)