Healthy Cake Batter Milkshake

I’m pretty sure the sprinkles are required in a cake batter milkshake! If you got the look, it doesn’t matter so much if the taste isn’t exactly spot on. 🙂 If I were to make this, I think using this https://www.lorannoils.com/p-8979-cake-batter-flavor-fountain.aspx or this https://www.lorannoils.com/p-8343-buttery-sweet-dough-bakery-emulsion.aspx would be essential to getting the cake batter flavor, and I personally don’t believe adding a little extract is going to make the whole thing unhealthy. (And I don’t believe for one second the places that make cake batter ice cream achieve the flavor naturally, unfortunately–I just don’t think it is completely possible!) I love your recipes Katie! You rock!

I love all of your milkshake recipes!!!! Thanks for posting them!

That milkshake looks so good! The childhood birthday cakes I can remember were The Little Mermaid, Lion King, and My Little Pony haha 🙂 As I got older, I wasn’t a big icing fan, so birthday cakes were ice cream cakes, chocolate of course!

I love all of your recipes! You are so inventive! I can’t wait to try think shake – it looks amazing. Some of my memorable cakes include: a gumball machine, wakeboard, and Simba.

Annnnd you just posted my afternoon snack. I can’t wait to try this!!! With sprinkles, FTW.

My birthday cakes were ALWAYS Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake – cookies ‘n cream ice cream with chocolate cake. My favorite part was the icing they wrote “Happy Birthday” in. It tasted different/special for some reason.

Can you make me dessert every day? Thanks 🙂

Whitney

What a picture to catch my eye!!!

I am going to have to make this soon! Have to!

Have you ever had Van’s waffles?
I tried them this morning (the vegan ones) and some soy yogurt on top (strawberry), it was something new for breakfast in like forever.
I was wondering if you had any ideas on easy (like frozen or super easy to prepare in the morning-not oatmeal) for morning breakfast?

Oh my gosh this is so much better than my method of adding boxed cake mix to smoothies and ice cream.

Sprinkles make anything cute! Love them. Freshman year of college, my school eliminated all transfat from the dining commons and campus restaurants, and sprinkles were sadly cut from the ice cream bar.

You’ve done it again. This looks fabulous, not to mention the photos are gorgeous and so bright/happy/FUN!

This milkshake looks delicious! I actually made something very similar to this a few weeks ago, but your version is much healthier! 😛

Oh. My. Gosh. I have no words.

The milkshake looks wonderful! I love the sprinkles in it.

When I was a kid, my bday cake was a big decision. My mom always made a big deal out of letting me pick out the cake + frosting that I wanted. Sometimes I’d have her make it, sometimes, I’d have it made at the store so I could get tons and tons of pink flowers made from frosting that was so sweet it would give you cavities just thinking about it 🙂

Ahh I love all the milkshakes you’ve been sharing recently. Yumm yumm 😀

I never got the cake batter thing, because I never cared much for the taste of cake batter. I’ll take the cooked one, thank you! But a gluten-free similar to cake batter milkshake sounds good enough to try.

Yeah there really isn’t good raw option for sprinkles other than dying coconut shreds, although that might melt in the shake.

I don’t believe that life would be as happy without sprinkles 🙂 I only have them on things probably once a year anyway. If anyone dies from that, I’d be curious to hear. I think more people die early from the anxiety of obsessive compulsive disorder though…*shrug* I think the sprinkles are what differentiate it from being a vanilla shake as opposed to a cake batter one 🙂

I would add little bits of vanilla cake, but that’s probably not so healthy 🙂 I don’t think I would ever want to experiment with this though, because I would end up eating so many unhealthy ingredients in the process of trying to perfect it! >.<

The photos look scrumptious. I'd love one, just as it is 🙂 I can't wait to see more shakes in the future!!

Yum yumyumyumyumm!! This looks perfect, I love that it’s actually healthy, too. I’ve seen a few cake treats like this, and they’re basically just that…cake blended and served cold. Well, they might as well be for how much sugar they put into the things anyway!

The majority of my birthday cakes were homemade unless I wanted some ridiculous decorating job (as in..a Rugrats cake I got one year), but I actually enjoyed the homemade! It was always exciting seeing my mom at work. And now I’ve taken over the roll and am making my own birthday cakes! haha

This is such a creative idea! I made it with regular milk and both vanilla and butter extracts. It was really yummy, but not quite authentic cake batter ice cream. I think the butter extract really helps, though! I’m thinking it might be better with coconut milk. But as far as a healthy, guilty-free shake, this is a winner! 🙂

hey katie!
i’m a cake batter freak and this looks absolutely amazing!
i can’t wait to try it… what’s the difference between virgin coconut oil and just coconut oil?

YUM!!! I love this!

I remember when I was turning 7 years old, I had one of those Barbie Cakes (where the skirt was the cake). I had so much fun! 😀 YAY for Princesses! 😀

xoxo
Kathleen

Is there a way to make this recipe without virgin coconut oil,coconut butter, macadamia or cashew butter. I’m allergic to these(Tree nuts-I am an abnormal case where I am allergic to coconuts also)

I saw this on TasteSpotting and couldn’t resist clicking because you said it was healthy! I can’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing 🙂

I have had this on my to-make list for awhile. I just made it and it is so tasty. I added the butter extract, definitely adds a nice touch. I’m not vegan, but find this a tasty shake alternative. Yummy!

😀 yeah thats the thing.. every time I tell people Im vegan they look at me like Im going to die and give me a whole speech about how unhealthy it is fo me :p
I really hate that people are so closed off when it comes to trying new things

Thank you for being so awesome!!! It brightens my day so much just to look at your site. 🙂

Katie,

Thanks so much for the recipe!!! I tweaked a bit, but it came out great. Also, just wanted to let you know I found raw artisan local coconut butter in my grocery store, so may be worth seeing if yours does. It adds a lot of yum!

This looks so tasty! I love any excuse to have a cold ice cream like treat too. I love your blog, you have such great tasty recipes.

Where did you find sprinkles that are vegan?!

I found you through Finding Vegan and this looks amazing. It’s super hot out where I’m from so I’m going home to try it right now! As a fellow vegan blogger, I just wanted to commend you on your awesome blog! Everything looks amazing and I love the concept! Get it girl!

<3 Sarah

First things first. This cracked me up: “If the above photo didn’t get your attention, I wash my hands of you.”

Tried this recipe, I used exactly as you have it using 1/2 cup almond milk and two of the options: 1TBS coconut butter and 1/8tsp butter flavor. YUM! Think I need to double this recipe, or maybe my banana wasn’t so large. Also, my sprinkles completely blended….I ended up with a blue smoothie! I wonder if they are just softer than what you used or maybe I blended too long, didn’t seem like it. Hmmm…don’t know.

I have a question. I’ve noticed you go from cup measurments to grams like you had 1/2 to 2/3cup almond milk and with a side not that you used 200grams. I was just curious about this as I do like to try the recipes as close as possible the way they were designed and I find myself (metrically challenged) doin’ the ol’ Google search to find a good conversion table. Just curious. 😉

This was delicious! Thanks Katie 🙂 I added some yellow yam cubes to mine (strange, I know) instead of flour or gum and it got super thick!

This was SOOOOOO good! Thanks!

I just made this for the first time and it was very good! However, there was one thing I couldn’t figure out…I made coconut butter by food processing coconut for a while like you said but the melting it was the problem…I did it in the microwave and I never got it to melt
(at least what I would call melting), it definitely cooked though and got crispy. So, I just ended up dumping some of my food processed coconut in without heating it. What did I do wrong?

This was yummy! I left out the coconut butter because I couldn’t find it, and subbed a tablespoon of buttercream frosting because I’m not vegan, or raw, or anything expect a gluten-intolerant girl who misses cake! It tastes a little bit too banana-y for my taste, but I’m trying to tell myself that it is good for me and to suck it up 🙂

Oh my god. I just made this and I find myself wishing I had a longer tongue so I could scrape the bottom of my glass.

I baked a wedding cake once and figured out what gives cake batter its flavor–cream of tartar! That’s what gives it that sort of tart taste that comes across in cake batter ice cream. Next time, maybe try just a tiny pinch. I can’t imagine you’d need that much. Just found your blog and love it!

hey katie,
a lot of your recipes ask for frozen banana, i wondered if you freeze the bananas with skin or if you peel them before freezing and what kind of container you use to freez bananas.

i have tried some of your recipes and they are fabulous, i honestly love your blog. i have such a sweet tooth but try to live healthy, also as a vegan it is hard to find tasty sweets. you do such a great job, finding your blog was great.

I think you would be able to thicken it to a more floury cakey consistency with a couple scoops of natural unflavored whey protein too 🙂

This looks absolutely delicious… I’m going to have to try an make this… I just have to substitute the coconut butter/or oil for something else… Would canola work or maybe vegetable shortening?

Hi Katie! I absolutely love all your recipes, but when I made this one, using a banana, vanilla extract, coconut oil, and milk, it tasted very odd. Any ideas why/ how to make it better?

My mom always makes awesome cakes! I’ve had a girl at the spa cake, a Hedwig cake, a Brave cake, a Dora the Explorer cake, a puppy cake, and much more!

Recipe Review:
Ok I hope this is helpful 2 some if not many out there. So I tried this without the options and using coconut oil vs the coconut butter and my choice of milk was homemade naturally fig sweetened almond milk (which btw is so easy 2 make, u just need almonds, water, a blender & some soak time!).

4 Kate or Katie (I think her name was) who asked many moons ago if it tastes like bananas since u hate them, here is your answer: YES the major flavor here is the sweet frozen banana. So if u don’t like them, u won’t like this drink. In fact it reminded me of this stuff my mom used 2 get at the grocery store, it was a packet (I guess of really just sugar!) that had a pic of bananas on it, u added a banana, ice & milk and had an AWESOME shake. This is very reminiscent of that but no added or artificial sugars.

2 calibrate tastes, I LOVE sweet, love vanilla and LOOOOOOVVVVE cake batter ice cream. That being said…. Would I recommend trying this, YES! Does it taste like cake batter though? No, not as I made it. I am not sure if using the coconut milk will make it more cakey tasting or not. I will try 2 tweak 2 get it there by trying that & also adding, as some suggested, butter flavor extract. Still, would I make it even as 1st tried again, heck yeah! It took literally seconds 2 put 2gether 4 something so healthy & GREAT tasting!

Thanks 4 the great start off point, CCK!!! 4 those who have an extreme lust 4 the cake batter taste as I do, if I can figure out what gets this closer 2 that vanilla cake taste…. I will keep u posted here. Hope u find this helpful.

Just made this. Honestly, it didn’t taste a thing like cake batter (even with the Earth Balance). I added a frozen chunk of your sugar free deep dish cookie pie, though, and that made for a delicious shake.

This is awesome! I’ve been having stomach problems recently so I’m not sure if I can eat actual cake on my birthday, so if need be, this is a nice substitute 🙂
I didn’t have coconut butter or oil so I’m probably a bad judge of whether or not the real recipe tastes like cake batter. I added imitation butter flavor, instead.
I did think though, that to make it taste more like cake you could add a teaspoon or two of boxed cake mix. Duncan Hines makes a few vegan ones, and then you could try flavoring this to be chocolate fudge or red velvet or strawberry or anything else!
Definitely makes it not raw, though, and it makes it more buttery-tasting too so if you add cake mix you might want to leave one of the buttery ingredients out.

Delicious!

I must have you know that this recipe is divine. I am starstruck by the delicious adventure my taste buds just embarked on. As one who has consumed many conventional cake batter oriented goodies in the past, I find the similarity in taste quite surprising and the fact that this recipe is far more delicious purely stunning. I added a couple teaspoons of almond butter and a few frozen cherries to the mix to see what happened, and the results were magical. Anyways, I would like to thank you very much for posting this recipe, because it is truly a gem.

Made this for breakfast for my kids. I used vanilla almond milk and added some vanilla protein powder for a good breakfast. My question is: when I melted the coconut butter and then added it to the smoothie and blended it up, it seemed to mostly harden back up in the bottom of my blender from the cold ingredients. Any suggestions on this? Otherwise the smoothie was great!!

Hi Katie,
You mentioned “cake batter oatmeal” in this post. I was wondering how I could work in cooked oatmeal into this recipe, as I’ve noted that cooked oatmeal in smoothies makes it creamy and thick.
Regards,
Krishna

I made this yesterday and the carrot one the day before and both of them were delicious! I love your milkshake recipes.

This looks delicious! Could you or someone tell me the nutrition facts?

Hi katie!
I love all of your recipes! I am on your blog like once a day,baking up a storm..toooo much really lol! I just made this shake and I loved it! I think it maybe needs a lil more cakey flavor. I actually put coconut flour in it to increase the cake like flavor and I think it helped. It was somewhat bananaesky but maybe it was due to my banana it def wasn’t overly ripe so i have to try it again with a better banana and see the outcome!
I love anything and everything sprinkled so when I saw this I knew I had to try! On to your entamen’s donuts now thank you for your incredible recipes! also how do I make your single girl cupcake for one (with sprinkles) into a full batch? thanks a gazillion!

I just tried this and it didn’t come out so great…Part of the problem might have been that I used coconut oil instead of butter (which congealed again when it hit the cold banana)… and maybe that I didn’t add any kind of flour or anything…guess I’ll have to try again!

Cake batter ANYTHING is beyond delicious…. I have found the adding 1/8 tsp of butter extract and about an 1/8 tsp(maybe a little more) of almond extract create a flavor that is dangerously close to that of cake batter! Also adding a little coconut flour and a touch of baking soda makes it thick and yummy!!!

Yum!! This was so delicious! I added a medjool date and ended finding some star shaped sprinkles in the back of the cupboard so thought ‘why not?!’ and plonked them in there too. Can I say Ah-MAZE-ing?!!

You really should have a board on pintrest called chocolate covered Katie. More people could follow your good recipes and it would give people that need to watch what they eat.

I can’t even…this is so amazing! I’ve included this smoothie as part of a Healthy Recipe post. Check it out:
http://www.theclosetfoodie.com/15-healthy-recipes-that-wont-ruin-your-resolution/