Hot Apple Pie Smoothies (and Popsicles!)
Remember the self-serve “Lunch Cereal” I alluded to earlier this week?
That doesn’t really happen all that often. Oh, all sorts of unconventionally timed meals are eaten around here, but they are rarely self-serve. Mostly because I don’t trust anyone in my house with the task of pouring a nearly full carton of milk into a teeny tiny bowl of cereal. Or pouring anything in general.
But you know what does happen often?
Lunch Smoothie.
Definitely Snack Smoothie.
Then there are Thursday nights, when we put on our tutus afterschool and go to ballet. I sit in the basement with no windows, save for the one that peers into the ballet studio where I watch Gigi plie and jete her little heart out and I watch Lulu run around like an erratic airplane, press her nose up against the glass, stick her hands in her ears and waggle her fingers at me.
By the time we get home and take our tutus off at 7:30, I’m exhausted.
I have no interest in making dinner or mopping up a half-gallon of milk from Dinner Cereal.
Enter Dinner Smoothie.
There are worse things.
Like Breakfast Popsicles.
Then there’s both in one lovely little recipe.
Let me pour you a glass. I’m begging you.
Hot Apple Pie Smoothies
Makes 1 large or 2 smaller smoothies
Streusel topping:
- 2 T. old fashioned oats
- 1 T. unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 t. cinnamon
Smoothie:
- 1 apple, cored and chopped (and peeled if you don’t have a high-powered blender)
- 1/2 c. organic cottage cheese, silken tofu or non-dairy or organic yogurt
- 1/2 c. non-dairy or organic milk
- 1 T. almond butter
- 1 T. vanilla protein powder (optional)
- 1/2 t. cinnamon
- 1/4 t. nutmeg
- 2 t. maple syrup or stevia to taste
- dash of salt
- 8-10 ice cubes
For streusel topping, combine oats, applesauce and cinnamon in a small bowl and microwave for 20-25 seconds. Set aside.
For smoothies, combine all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend until smooth and thick.
Pour into glasses and top with streusel topping before serving.
Pie for dinner?
Yes, please.
And drinking your dinner is totally forgiven if you have to use a fork too.
If you plan ahead, you can have dinner leftovers for breakfast the next morning.
No pouring necessary (and thus no mopping).
Cheers for Breakfast Popsicles.
Cereal is so overrated.
This sounds amazing! I can’t wait to make it for myself. Um maybe tomorrow for breakfast
I love your popsicle molds – those are so cute.
Thanks! Hope your breakfast is great.
Oh my goodness!!!! You never cease to make my day! This looks amazing! And plenty of protein to go with my workouts right now!
And I of course have those popsicle molds from the rootbeer float recipe you posted. I went straight to Amazon and ordered them that night. LOL!
Yes! Wouldn’t a popsicle taste good after a workout? (I can vouch…the answer is yes.)
That looks great!!! I hate ballet nights. I decided we are taking a break from it for a bit due to the busy summer I am so sad about that. Can’t you tell.
I may be counting the days myself…
i love that there’s actually a streusel topping to a smoothie – only the best!
I gotta have something to chew, you know?
Yum yum and more yum!!
this is too freaky.. i made a hot apple pie protein shake and haven’t posted about it yet. however, mine doesn’t have a super amazing streusel topping–YUM! i am in oregon. i can’t believe i am so close, but so far from you… sad
Awwww. Shucks.
What do you use for non dairy or organic milk?
I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk. It’s my favorite!
Your smoothie looks delish. Love that you used oats and made Streusel topping. If there’s one thing I want more of in my life, it’s Streusel topping. Yum!
Truth. I could put streusel topping on just about everything.
You’re a genius! I love the smoothie for dinner idea especially on a Friday when I am fresh out of inspiration and often just sick of thinking about what’s for dinner?? I will give these a go for breakky tomorrow- yum ! Thank you:)
Hope you love ‘em!
Nothing wrong with a dinner smoothie! Lately, I’ve felt inclined to make smoothies for breakfasts, snacks, desserts…Dinner just may make it to the list very soon- especially in this heat!
Send some sun here. It’s raining.
I can’t wait to try this! Though I wonder if my crappy blender will blend up the apple…
I’d give it a go without the peel the first time and see how she does.
Ummm…this is totally breakfast tomorrow! It looks amazing! Have a great weekend!
You too Christine!
Your popsicle molds are so cute! My air conditioner is broken at the moment (apparently the maintenance man has some test thing hooked up to it to figure out if we have a leak and he’s ‘working on it’, which means he’s coming back on Monday to read the gauge.) Anyways, this means that my house is feeling rather warm these days, and a smoothie might just be what I need for dinner! This sounds delicious!
Come to Oregon. It’s rainy and pretty miserable. (I should write travel brochures.)
These look delicious! Definitely making them:) Thanks for the idea!
Love this idea – I can never get enough of cinnamon flavored things!
My son _loves_ breakfast popsicles. I love breakfast popsicles because he’s not kvetching for the sugary store brands. I’ve been looking around for new recipes to make this summer – and this one’s going on the list! (The current favorite at our house – vanilla greek yogurt, a splash of non-sweetened juice, one banana, and frozen raspberries and peaches – I’ll have to find some protein powder!).
Thanks!
Oooh, thanks for your suggestion!
You’re welcome! His other current favorite is just fruit, no protein – watermelon, strawberries and lime juice. (and yes. I’m sooo tempted to add tequila to it and make it a mommy popsicle!)
That sounds delicious! (the kid version, I mean)
I have never NEVER thought to put apples in a smoothie……. whyyyy?
Agreed. Cereal is overrated. Bring on the Popsicles!!
Yum!! My family does breakfast for dinner all the time (pancakes) so why not smoothies? Thanks for including so many options in all your recipes for those who do or don’t eat dairy. I think it’s great that you are clearly so accepting of all dietary preferences.
Thanks, Gabby. I just have come to realize that we all have different needs and so I’d like to include as many people as I can!
Oh my Yummm!
Hey Mama Pea,
Where did you get your popsicle molds? I’ve been looking for some good ones….Thanks!
I got them at Powell’s Home and Garden Store in Portland but they are this brand:
http://www.amazon.com/Tovolo-Ice-Cream-Pop-Molds/dp/B00395BD86/ref=pd_sim_k_9
Yum! These sound fabulous – I have a protein smoothie almost every day so I love getting new ideas for flavours. Thanks Mama Pea!
My pleasure! I’ll have to check out your site for flavors as well.
YUM! I just tried this for breakfast this morning and it was fabulous and is keeping me super full!
I wonder how it would taste warmed (come fall)…is that weird? To drink what feels like a warm milkshake? I just think the apple flavours would work well warmed…though I used Greek yogurt/cottage cheese blend and I’m not sure how those heat. lol
How about you try that for me.
Oooh, good reminder that we’ve been meaning to make new popsicles. By new, I mean the last ones we made were margarita popsicles (which my husband was, initially, very excited about). I should have known tequila and sweetened condensed milk was a bad idea… yuck!
Did they set up? I thought alcohol didn’t freeze? Interesting…
Well no; they didn’t set really. Haha. But we made them from a video that somehow made it work – must have been magic.
Oh! Chobani apple cinnamon yogurt would be perfect for this! Yum!
That’s Gigi’s favorite flavor!
Love this! I often make peach pie smoothies, but I never thought to make a delicious apple version.
thanks! livi suddenly likes some smoothies and she wanted me to make an apple smoothie.
i love a smoothie lunch or snack or breakfast #1, breakfast #2, etc. why does nut butter take any smoothie over the top? why? I made one for Abbi’s friend the other day and her eyes got as big as saucers and she was like “peanut butter in a smoothie???????? this is SO GOOD.” I am thinking “well, duh.” hehe
love YOU! Hope your weekend was grand. You are a sun ray!
XO
you. are. a. freaking. genius!!! thank you for dreaming up amazingly delicious things like this. more importantly, thank you for SHARING such ingenuity with us. you make dreams come true with recipes like this. i would kiss you were you close enough. nom nom nom noooom! (you KNOW the way to my heart is apple/cinnamon recipes, right?) great, now i’m sure after making this smoothie i’ll have to make that coffee cake that doesn’t stand a chance in my presence for more than 24 hours. oh, and then those chunky apple muffins. eh, there are worse things in life, right?
xo!!!!
So you kinda dig the apple cinnamon combo, I take it?
Have a great weekend, Lisa!
This looks wonderful! I’m a huge fan of drinking dinner and cinnamon. Thanks!
Now that it’s smoothie season I’ll for sure have to try that, thank you!
These look awesome! I was wondering what brand of protein powder you use-I want to make sure I buy a safe one (I’ve heard that some protein powders have bad ingredients) Thank you!
You can check out my brand suggestions here: http://peasandthankyou.com/2011/05/17/protein-power/
What if you put granola on top of these or in the popsicles? Then cereal + smoothes + popsicles would be united! /mindblown
I love smoothies and with a streusel topping? Now you’re just taunting me! Must make this.
I was wondering what brand of protein powder you use? I do not have the best luck when choosing a brand. Loved these smoothies by the way!
You can check out my suggested brands here: http://peasandthankyou.com/2011/05/17/protein-power/
Sometimes you do these things and it just reinforces how much of a genius you are. My smoothies seem so lacklustre and miserable in comparison!
Love the idea and the recipe….but there is no way that a smoothie would constitute dinner for my bottomless pit 14 year old boy. As it is, when I mention that dinner is tofu, he asks if he can have his “con carne”!
This could work for afterschool snacks in my house, though. I am always looking for good snacks that pack protein and fruit
This was your best smoothie yet – huge hit in our house last night!! The Chocolate Covered Cherry Almond Smoothie is a very close second
oh yum! that looks so delicious! creamy and fabulous! thanks for sharing!
Where did you get those ice cream cone popsicle molds?! Those are fantastic!
I love doing smoothie popsicles…it’s such a great use for leftover smoothies and sneak healthy treats! Just yesterday some neighbor kids were over and we gave them all ice cube tray smoothie popsicles while they played outside. Little did they know they were consuming frozen berries, bananas, and ground flaxseed.
Hi Rebekah, they are these:
http://www.amazon.com/Tovolo-Ice-Cream-Pop-Molds/dp/B00395BD86
I got them at a store in Portland. I agree, homemade, healthy popsicles are the best!
Such a creative idea – lurrve. Will have to try this!
I love that you added this: 1/2 c. organic cottage cheese, silken tofu or non-dairy or organic yogurt
Thank you for remembering to add options for us. I love this idea for popsicles…and smoothies but I have to admit that I am on a popsicle kick.
And what a sweet gift for her teacher.
Can you use regular tofu instead of silken? I don’t have the any of the three at home but have the reg. tofu…this is my 3 round of them
! this time, I am sharing with the kids instead of hogging it all :0D oink oink, little piggie! It is a FANTASTIC Smoothie!
I think the regular tofu would be too chunky
I’d just add another 1/2 an apple, another teaspoon or two of almond butter and some extra almond milk!
Thanks! I just went to the store…why mess up a good thing…though now I ran out of apples so we are going to do peaches….Hope it goes okay with the almond butter
Delicious! 6 for 6 Mamma Pea!
Ha ha ha. Love it!
i am a teacher (out for summer…YAY) & would love to receive a gift like that…really cute!
I really gotta get on this smoothie train. I love eating them out, I just never make at home. This recipe may change that! By the way, the white bean burger recipe on your site has become a staple in our house. Yummy!
Deliciousnesss! Thanks for another great recipe! We loved it for breakfast…can’t wait to try popsicles!!
I have to thank you for this recipe. My kids LOVED it. And my 4.5 y/o daughter exclaimed at the top of her lungs “you’re the best mom in the whole wide world you make the best things ever!”
Yeah – can’t thank you enough! I can always count on you when I need someone to stroke my ego or make me feel good enough
i just wanted to pop in and let you know I made this smoothie (tripled the recipe!) for my son’s preschool teachers and they loved it! I passed along the recipe!
So awesome! I’m glad everyone enjoyed it, Grace. Thank you for the feedback!
We just made these smoothies for an afternoon snack. The kids and husband gobbled them up! Thanks Mama Pea!!
Awesome! Glad they hit the spot.
I have made this three times now and am very much enjoying it! Smoothies have been a staple around here. I’m in the last few weeks of pregnancy and all I can seem to digest and tolerate are smoothies.
Thanks for a great smoothie!!
Good luck with those last few weeks, and thanks for the feedback!
Hi Mama, I am wondering what kind of protein powder you use. I have never bought any and when I checked the grocery, it was OVERWHELMING! I”d love to find a good vegan brand to begin adding to our smoothies and other baked goods. I made these for my kids and I pretty much drank them before they got any. Oops. So good! We didn’t have any left for popcicles, boo hoo! Maybe next time.
Hey Jenny, check out this post for suggestions!
http://peasandthankyou.com/2011/05/17/protein-power/