One of my topmost favorite flavors is that of raw cookie dough. For some reason, raw cookie dough just tastes better than the baked cookies (not that the baked cookies are particularly bad, just that the cookie dough is better). And since I’m always looking for new flavors for shakes and smoothies so that I switch things up each day, I decided why not create a chocolate chip cookie dough shake?
To create this recipe, I looked over several chocolate chip cookie dough dip recipes I had found online. Then I mixed and matched some of these ingredients plus a few others (and some liquid to transform it from a dip to drink) until I had blended the perfect chocolate chip cookie dough shake.
One thing I noticed with the cookie dough dip recipes was that none of the ones I looked through had any brown sugar or molasses. I think one of the big reasons I love chocolate chip cookie dough is that it has that molasses like flavor. So for my shake recipe, I added just a bit of molasses. This should be a small enough amount that it doesn’t raise blood sugar levels, but if you’re concerned for any reason, you are more than welcome to leave it out or use some maple flavoring instead. It’ll still taste great! Another alternative is to use Brown Just Like Sugar (this is a THM-friendly chicory root sweetener flavored like brown sugar).
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Shake
Ingredients
- ½ cup plain unsweetened almond or cashew milk
- ½ cup water
- 2 ounces (4 tablespoons) ⅓ fat cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons collagen
- 1 tablespoon
THM Super Sweet or equivalent sweetener - 1 scoop Pristine Whey Protein Powder
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon butter flavoring, optional
- ½ teaspoon glucomannan, optional
- ⅛ teaspoon maple flavoring or ¼ teaspoon unsulphured blackstrap molasses, optional
- ¼ teaspoon mineral salt
- 1 ½ cups ice
- 1 tablespoon Lily's stevia-sweetened chocolate chips
Instructions
- Add the milk, water, cream cheese, collagen, sweetener, whey protein, butter, vanilla, glucomannan, butter flavoring, maple flavor or molasses, and salt to the jar of a blender. Pulse until well mixed.
- Add the ice and pulse until blended.
- Add the chocolate chips and pulse just until there are tiny bits of chocolate throughout the shake.
Nutrition
Would 2 ounces of cream cheese be equivalent to 1/4 of the 8 oz bar of cream cheese which would be 2 tablespoons instead of 4 tablespoons? Half of a bar of cream cheese for one shake seems like a lot. 🙂 I’m anxious to try this!
Hi, Mary Lou. Each ounce of cream cheese is 2 tablespoons so 2 ounces would equal 4 tablespoons (one full package of cream cheese is 8 ounces, which is equivalent to 16 tablespoons). 1/4 of the 8 ounce bar would be 4 tablespoons or 2 ounces, which is how much my recipe calls for. 🙂
What is the purpose of Can I leave it out?
Hi, Mary! What is the purpose of which ingredient? If you’re referring to the maple flavoring or molasses like many people do, it’s just to add a hint of that molasses flavor like many chocolate chip cookies have and it is totally fine to omit. 🙂
Ooops, sorry. I meant to ask about collagen. I see glucomannan is optional, but I don’t have either ingredient.
Hi, Mary. Yeah, you can omit the collagen. It just adds extra health benefits, doesn’t affect the flavor at all. 🙂
I have not met any of your recipes that I didn’t like. This is one of the best. 😍
Thanks, Finn!
Affectionately known in my household as “The TJ Shake,” this smoothie takes me back to my childhood licking the spoons when Mama & Granny we’re baking. My husband, who isn’t the biggest fan of chocolate even loves this shake & often requests it as a post workout recovery drink or 1/2 of the recipe as dessert after dinner. My children love it too! Thanks for the time you invested in crafting this for your fellow Trim Healthy Mamas!
what purpose does the c ream cheese serve? could I leave it out?
Adds richness that is like a chocolate chip cookie dough flavor without adding raw eggs. You can omit it if you like. Let me know how it is if you do. 🙂
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I made this a few weeks and then couldn’t find it again. Until I was determined to find it again tonight. And here it is. Yes! So yummy and filling. Thank you.
Glad you liked it! 🙂
OMG! This is SOOO good! I made it using the Just Like Sugar brown sugar stuff and it came out PERFECT! Tastes exactly like cookie dough. I couldn’t believe it. Definitely adding this to my faves.
Is black strap molasses the type you’re talking about?
Yes, ma’am.