One of the great ways we're enjoying our raw goat milk is to make chocolate milk. You can use any natural sweetener you'd like – I think honey would be wonderful, as would maple syrup. But I better stop talking about those. 😉 I'm using whole dates for the sweeteners, since the month of May is devoted to our Beyond Sugar Challenge, where we avoid the use of concentrated sweeteners, natural or refined. This chocolate milk is really good! Adjust the number of dates for your desired sweetness.
Chocolate-Date Milk
Ingredients
- 3 cups raw whole milk
- 10 dates whole, pitted
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 6 to 8 ice cubes made from pure water
Instructions
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Combine all ingredients in blender container or Vita-Mix wet container.
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Blend on high until smooth.
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Pour into cups and enjoy!
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That sounds good, I’ll have to try it. I love the flavor of dates. My family enjoys chocolate milk also. I use half cocoa powder and half carob powder, then sweeten with raw honey. You can warm this for hot chocolate as well, but this is not the time of year for that.
This sounds good! I made chocolate milk like this last night but with molasses instead of dates. Yum!
Never thought to use dates to sweeten chocolate milk before! But I had heard of date smoothies before, and they have always sounded yummy to me. In our family, dates are a little like candy! They are so sweet and yummy. 🙂
Do your dates chop up really small in the Vitamix? I’ll have to try this, I even have some dates on hand.
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Kelly, hi! The longer you run the Vita-Mix the more pureed the dates become. If you run the VM for a couple minutes, it will warm up, so then you should chill it. I tend to leave the dates a bit on the chunky side so the milk will be cold immediately. The dates sink and the person who gets the cup from the last bit usually has some yummy date-candy-bits in there. 🙂
Tiffany, Staci and Kimi – Hello, all! Thanks for stopping by!
Kelly, just now I made some and I let it blend until I could not longer hear bits of ice chopping. The dates were pretty much pureed and the milk was still cold. So, yes, the VM totally chops them up. 😀
If you, or anyone, chills this, expect it to go down in volume as the foaminess settles.