
Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Smoothie (Vegan+GF)
Hey Loves, I hope you’re enjoying the start of the season and getting excited about all things pumpkin and spice!
How was your weekend? Mine was spent doing some house cleaning (which I find kind of therapeutic sometimes believe it or not), going to a little Fall festival in Sandpoint, and then some shopping for my upcoming plans. I haven’t bought new clothes like this in a very long time so I had way too much fun trying it all on. I can hardly recognize myself because I can’t recall ever enjoying shopping like this. Clearly that’s changed because I must have tried on the entire store.
Something else I never used to like much were smoothies. Well it’s not that I didn’t like them, but I would never have chosen to drink a smoothie over a meal in most cases. I don’t know though, I tried a few smoothie variations over the summer when the weather was super hot and I’ve been hooked ever since. It’s one of my current obsessions actually and I can’t get enough!
In honor of the Autumn season I wanted to try a very seasonal one to share with you today so I pulled out the spices and grabbed some pumpkin! This is an extremely simple recipe that takes all of 5 minutes to blend up. I used Greek yogurt in mine but you can easily make it completely dairy free and vegan. Oh, and following a popular trend I decided to try granola as a topping and was very surprised at how delicious it is, you must try it. Happy sipping guys!
XOXO

Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Smoothie (Vegan+GF)
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/3 cup plain or vanilla coconut yogurt
- 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder *see note
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice **see note
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk or preferred milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 - 2 cups ice cubes
Optional Toppings:
- granola
- nut butter
- coconut yogurt or any non-dairy yogurt
Instructions
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Combine the pumpkin, yogurt, spices, milk, and vanilla in a blender and pulse until smooth. Add in the ice and blend until the smoothie is thick and creamy. (Start with about 1 cup of ice and go from there as it thickens until it's your desired consistency)
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Pour into a tall glass and top with granola or anything else you'd like!
Recipe Notes
*I used Vega brand in my smoothie but any type of vanilla protein does well. **If you don't have pumpkin pie spice you can replace it with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ginger, 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, and 1/8 teaspoon cloves


2 Comments
Karly
Let’s just talk about how amazing this is. Mostly because it allows all of us to have pumpkin cheesecake for breakfast, but also because it’s healthy and delicious!!! Pinned!
Tori
That’s so sweet of you Karly! Thank you so much!