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Chocolate-Date Milk

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Glass of Chocolate Date milkshake with black straw and dates with cocoa beans on butcher block

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.

Glass of Chocolate Date milkshake with black straw
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Chocolate-Date Milk

This milk is on the not-too-sweet side, just how we like it.
Course Beverage
Servings 7 Cups
Author Wardee Harmon

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

  1. Combine all ingredients in blender container or Vita-Mix wet container.

  2. Blend on high until smooth.
  3. Pour into cups and enjoy!

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Wardee lives in the Boise area of Idaho with her dear family. She's the lead teacher and founder of the Eat God's Way online cooking program as well as the author of Fermenting, Sourdough A to Z, and other traditional cooking books. Eat God's Way helps families get healthier and happier using cooking methods and ingredients from Bible Times like sourdough, culturing, and ancient grains.

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  1. Tiffany says

    May 27, 2009 at 10:28 am

    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.

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  2. Stacy says

    May 27, 2009 at 11:26 am

    This sounds good! I made chocolate milk like this last night but with molasses instead of dates. Yum!

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  3. Kimi says

    May 27, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    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. 🙂

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  4. Kelly the Kitchen Kop says

    May 27, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Do your dates chop up really small in the Vitamix? I’ll have to try this, I even have some dates on hand.

    Thanks for joining in on Real Food Wednesday! I stumbled your post. 🙂

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    • Wardee says

      May 28, 2009 at 8:44 am

      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!

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      • Wardee says

        May 28, 2009 at 12:25 pm

        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.

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