On Sunday my boyfriend and I were kind of having a lazy morning and opted to skip the gym. The weather around here was really awesome over the weekend too which usually prompts me to want to actually leave the house and do something. So I suggested we head to Barnes and Noble and just wander around perusing the books and whatnot. We’re so funny and so much alike in being homebodies because after about an hour, we both looked at each other and we were like -ok let’s go home now. On the way out we decided to get some coffee at Starbucks. I tried their new smoked butterscotch latte. Oh my heavens. So good. My boyfriend ordered a mocha frappucino. He wasn’t even sure what he was ordering because he was surprised when it came frozen. But boy was he glad when he took the first sip. He let me have a taste and oh yeah. New addictions were born. One hot and one cold.
That mocha frappucino taste was the basis for my protein shake. The good thing about this protein shake is that if you don’t want to use protein powder, you can use regular cocoa powder. I also threw in half of a banana but you really can’t taste it. I use the banana as kind of a thickener. The caramel is a caramel coffee syrup. I used a sugar free version I found at Target. I made this shake after a killer afternoon leg workout and boy oh boy did it hit the spot.
Mocha caramel protein shake
1 scoop chocolate protein powder (or 1 TBL cocoa powder)
1/2 frozen banana
2 tsp caramel coffee syrup (sugar free optional)
1 cup brewed coffee, cooled (of course decaf works if you don’t want the caffeine)
Place all ingredients in a blender with 1 cup of ice and blend until smooth.
I don’t know why it never occurred to me to use Dalton’s left over coffee for the smoothies that Lena makes all the time because she is a die hard Starbucks fan so I told her and she’s going to try it next time. That was a run-on sentence.
Let me know if she likes it! Don’t worry, you were just commenting. I use run-on sentences all the time.