Butter Pecan Smoothie

Course Dessert / Snack, Drinks

Keyword Full Cal

Meal Plan Category Week 5

Servings serving

Calories 225kcal

Ingredients

2 tbsp half and half
2 tbsp water
8-10 ice cubes * depending on what your blender can handle for thickness
1.5 tsp butter flavor
1 tsp pecan extract sub almond extract
1 pinch salt
1 tsp Swerve
powdered stevia to taste**

TOPPING***

¼ cup pecans chopped coarsely
½ tsp Swerve
Sprinkle of salt
stevia For dusting if desired (Note: For “skinny” version reduce the topping serving by 1/2)

Instructions

TOPPING:

Spray a pan on medium heat with nonstick spray and toast chopped pecans, swerve and dusting of stevia together. Let cool in fridge a few minutes while you make your smoothie. This is the version that’s accounted for when you are following the meal plan for your calories.
If you are eating this on your own and need to “skinny” it down a bit to lower calories, use half the topping ingredients (serving size will be 2 tbsp or 1/8th cup topping)- see macros for this below. My suggestion if you do this is to chop the pecans finer so they spread throughout the smoothie better. ALTERNATE: if busy, just fold in raw pecans to your smoothie.

SMOOTHIE:

High Powered Blender: Add liquids/soft ingredients first, then ice, and blend.
Ninja: Add ice first, then rest of ingredients on top. Do crush function first to crush ice. Scrape sides with spatula, then blend.
Both: You will likely need to scrape the sides with a spatula a couple times.

Notes

*So I’ve discovered ice cube size can vary! These are made with ice-cube trays purchased online. If you make your smoothie and it seems too watery/liquidy and not thick like the photo or the video tutorials don’t worry, you aren’t crazy! Your ice-cubes are just smaller. Either add more icecubes or buy some trays online to use. The point is your smoothie should be kind of hard to blend- that’s how thick it should be.

**STEVIA NOTES: 1 scoop = the scoop that comes in stevia bottle = 1/32 of tsp = 1 packet stevia. If you do not have any of this, a few light shakes. If you do not like stevia, use more erythritol-based sweetener to compensate. It’s not nearly as sweet so per scoop you may need to add 1-3 more tsp. to taste. Please see the “Sweeteners” tutorial under the Shopping Tutorials section.

***As always, I suggest making this sort of topping in bulk to save time. 1 serving is ¼ cup of topping for original recipe, and ⅛th cup (2 tbsp) for a the “skinny” version listed in the macros area.

Note: Video tutorials of the these smoothies in the Dessert Smoothies Course on p3tolife.com!

Per serving: 1 recipe

225 cal - 4 protein - 23 fat - 5 carbs - 2 net carbs
Skinny version: 131 cal - 2 protein - 13 fat - 3 carbs - 2 net carbs

Nutrition