Cocoa Cherry Breakfast Break

Tart cherry juice keeps cocoa and banana from becoming an overly sweet, dessert-like blend. The cocoa adds a pleasantly bitter edge, while banana supplies the creamy texture. Whisk the cocoa into a little milk first if your blender tends to leave dry pockets around the sides. The combination is chocolatey without needing chocolate syrup. Cocoa contains some caffeine, so this belongs in the morning collection rather than the caffeine-free evening options. Serve it straight after blending.

Ingredients

• 6 oz Unsweetened oat milk
• 2 oz Tart cherry juice
• 1 tsp Unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 fruit Ripe banana

Make it

1. Prepare all fruit as listed. Use cooked, cooled ingredients where specified; remove every stone, core or hard stem.
2. Add the milk and all remaining ingredients to a blender. Blend for 45–60 seconds, scraping down as needed, until smooth.
3. Add a small splash of milk if needed to make it pourable. Serve immediately.

Benefits

Banana · a potassium contribution

With banana beside oat milk, cherry, and cocoa, this glass offers a little potassium for maintaining normal fluid balance.

Let cocoa change the texture

In the oat milk, cherry, and banana blend, the measured cocoa adds a deep, bittersweet chocolate flavor without an ice-cream base.

Contains caffeine.