Easy Apple Pie Smoothie: Dessert Thickie
We all love our desserts but we don’t love what they do to our waistlines and health. Unless you make a healthy thick dessert smoothie – A Thickie! These are great for breakfast and they are so decadent that you can literally enjoy them at any time of day especially after a meal as a sweet treat. You can also freeze them and make them into ice lollies.
I am starting a series of dessert Thickies that I have been experimenting with lately so keep coming back to check out the latest dessert thickie.
I still totally believe in the power of greens and don’t like to have very many drinks that don’t contain greens but I love these dessert thickies at the weekend for a treat. They are also great for making for other people as everyone will really love them. Once you have them hooked with a great tasting smoothie, ask them if they would notice if you dropped a couple of spinach leaves in and would they will still try it? A great way to get kids drinking green smoothies too is to start off with a great taste like this and add a couple more green leaves every day until they get used to the colour. They won’t be able to taste the greens at all as these dessert thickies are so sweet, as every dessert should be. But you don’t have to worry, they all contain healthy sweeteners or mostly whole dried fruit which I prefer.
Apple Pie is one of my all time favourite desserts so this Healthy Apple Pie Smoothie was an obvious thickie to start with. I don’t always enjoy eating apples on their own, but mix apple with a bit of cinnamon and some other great ingredients and I can’t get enough.
You know the old saying, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. It’s so true. The humble apple has so many benefits including preventing diabetes. Even if your kids won’t eat them raw, they will be asking you for seconds of this smoothie.
Although I’ve given you the calories for one large serving (half the recipe) you may want to only consume a quarter of the recipe so you don’t take in so many calories if you are just having this as a snack. If you have this as a meal it will fill you up for a very long time. I have these at the weekends and I am still able to lose weight over a whole week. These are also perfect for a pre or post workout meal.
Special Diets
Gluten free*, raw*, vegetarian, vegan, dairy free, egg free, sugar free, wheat free*, soya free*, salt free, nut free*
- 2 Cups Non Dairy Milk (oat, rice, soya, almond, hemp, coconut drink or raw nut or seed milk)
- 1 Banana
- 2 Apples
- ¼ Cup Pecans
- ½ Cup dates (or any other dried fruit)
- 1 Cup Oats (use raw oat groats if following a raw food diet or oatmeal if you don’t have a powerful blender)
- 1 teaspoon Cinammon
- ½ teaspoon Allspice/Mixed Spice
- Blend the ingredients in the order listed.
- Blend the ingredients a few at a time so that your blender can cope with the work, unless you’ve got a high powered blender, then you might be able to add them all in at once.
- If it gets too thick, add more water as necessary.
- If your blender has made the smoothie too warm, you can either cool it down in the fridge or freezer, or add some ice cubes or frozen fruit to it (You may need to add more water as this will thicken it further).
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The best type of blender to make Green Thickies is a Vitamix and you will get beautifully smooth Green Thickies, but you can use whatever type of blender you have or can afford. This blender
is reasonably priced and will easily make green thickies along with lots of other delicious food.
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Hi, I'm Katherine, thanks for stopping by. I healed myself of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and lost 56 pounds. I now have loads of energy for my baby girl and enjoy walks on the beach with my family. I am passionate about helping you improve your health and reach your ideal weight. I invented Green Thickies to provide a complete meal drink for busy people who care about their health.
Holy yum! I’m trying this soon :)
Excellent! Thanks for stopping by. Let me know how it goes.
Hi! I started drinking green smoothies a few months ago, and it really changed me! I feel more alert, happier, and I don’t get as many stomach aches anymore. Now, I don’t enjoy fruit smoothies — it has to have greens.
Then, I found your green thickies website. I drink one for breakfast almost every day, and in the afternoons, if I’m feeling hungry.
Thank you so much for the recipes & everything on this website. It’s hugely helpful.
Just made an apple pie thickie. I added greens, and it’s so delicious.
Hi there. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing experiences. I’m so glad you found green smoothies and that you’re getting so much benefit from them. I’m glad you like my recipes and website too. I would love to copy your comment on to one of my testimonials pages. Let me know if you don’t want me to do that. Many thanks!
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Hi,
I love your website!!! I am so glad i found it. I just had a baby and am looking for ways to eat healthy foods but without much prep and these green smoothies seem like the way to go. I see a lot of your recipes call for bananas. I do not like the taste of bananas in smoothies (no idea why, but i like to eat them plain) Is there anything i can use instead of the bananas and still have the drink taste good? Also, if a recipe calls for spinach and i don’t have- can i use romaine lettuce?
Thanks!
Yes they are a great way to get the nutrients into your kids. Kids usually love them. Yes you can substitute mango or peaches for bananas and they should keep the texture and sweet taste. Yes you can use romaine but it has a much stronger flavour which you or your kids may not like. You can use frozen spinach too or chard is quite mild.