Palm Springs Light Date Shake

The Hadley’s Date Shake is a definite highlight for the drive up to Palm Springs. However, that shake is loaded with calories. This version is half the calories and all the taste! It can also be made dairy free!

I used 1% milk and Halo Top Vanilla ice cream for mine. I have also used Dreyer’s vanilla ice cream and 2% milk. both are much lower in fat, calories and sugar than a regular date shake and still delicious!

Ingredients:

4 Medjool dates, pitted and roughly chopped
1 cup 1% or 2% milk
2 cups Halo Top or Dreyer’s Vanilla Ice Cream
(you can also use chocolate)
1 teaspoon honey

Directions:

In a blender, combine the dates and milk and blend until smooth and frothy.
Add the ice cream and honey and pulse a few times until smooth.
Pour into two glasses and serve immediately.

Here you can see that although there is a 30 calorie and 1 gm of fat difference per half cup, the numbers change when you compare the sugar content and the extra protein form the halo top.
the choice is yours!

One happy Date Shake Guy!