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Lemon Loaf and Shortcake Protein Shakes

By Wes Ellis2 min read
Two strawberry shakes topped with whipped cream and whole strawberries, with more berries on the table.
Recipe card
Servings
1
Prep
5 minutes
Cook
None
Method
Blender
Difficulty
Easy
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Part 3 of the thread The shake shelf

THE SHORT VERSION4 points
  • Base is 2 scoops vanilla protein and 1 cup milk. The plain lemon loaf uses just 1/3 cup for a thick shake.
  • Lemon flavor comes from zest, not juice. 1/2 to 1 teaspoon is plenty.
  • Shortcake is berries plus whipped cream. That's the whole trick.
  • Blend, top, and drink it right away.
THE RECIPE · LEMON LOAF AND SHORTCAKE PROTEIN SHAKES

Ingredients

The base

Lemon loaf

Raspberry lemon loaf

Raspberry shortcake

Strawberry shortcake

Raspberry white chocolate

You'll need

  • Blender
  • Microplane or fine grater
  • Measuring cups and spoons

Directions

Every shake

  1. Put the protein powder, milk and that flavor's add-ins in the blender.
  2. Blend on high until smooth. Add ice last if you want it colder.
  3. Pour, top with whipped cream if it calls for it, and drink it right away.

Lemon loaf

  1. With only 1/3 cup milk it'll be thick. Blend in short bursts and scrape down the sides.

Raspberry white chocolate

  1. Blend the chips in with everything else, then scatter a few more on the whipped cream.
Notes Best fresh; if it has to sit, refrigerate it briefly and re-blend. Zest the lemon before anything else so it doesn't end up an afterthought. Roughly 250 to 385 calories and 50 g protein per shake, give or take.

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Lemon and berries are the lighter end of the shake shelf. No cocoa, no peanut butter, nothing heavy. Just a vanilla base, something bright, and a spoon of whipped cream doing its best impression of cake.

Zest, not juice

The lemon here comes from the zestThe thin, colored outer layer of a citrus peel, grated off with a fine grater. It holds the fragrant oils, so it tastes more like lemon than the juice does. Stop before you hit the bitter white pith.More: Single-Serve Lemon Loaf, the yellow outer layer of the peel. That's where the oil is, and the oil is what tastes like a lemon loaf. Juice would bring sourness and, worse, can make a milk-based shake curdle and go grainy. Zest gives you all the lemon and none of the trouble.

Tip

Zest over the blender jar so the oils that spray off the peel land in the shake instead of on the counter. Stop when you see white; the pith underneath is bitter.

The plain lemon loaf also runs on only a third of a cup of milk, so it's closer to a thick soft-serve than a drink. If that's more than you want, add milk a splash at a time.

Shortcake is a topping job

There's nothing magic in the shortcake shakes. They're berry shakes wearing whipped cream, and the whipped cream is what makes your brain say "shortcake." Don't skip it.

If you want the cake part too, the microwave Strawberry Shortcake and Raspberry Lemon Loaf use the same flavor pairings, and the Single Serve Lemon Loaf is the plain lemon one in cake form.

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