Chocolate Hazelnut Maca Smoothie Bowl

You can’t go wrong with a smoothie bowl that tastes like dessert, especially one like this Chocolate Hazelnut Maca Smoothie Bowl, packed with nutrient-dense superfoods!

This banana-based smoothie bowl contains two of our favorite superfood powders: maca and lucuma. They both lend well to rich, chocolate-y bases.

Maca, with a relatively nutty, earthy taste, comes from Peru. Maca is known to improve energy. It’s extremely nutritious and a great source of vitamin C, copper, and surprisingly (for a plant), protein. 

Lucuma is the second secret ingredient in this Chocolate Hazelnut Maca Smoothie Bowl. Lucuma is fruit also native to Peru that’s slightly sweet and tastes somewhat like squash (in our opinion). When we traveled to Peru a few years ago, nearly every menu contained at least one dessert made with lucuma, and we can assure you they were all delicious! We started using lucuma powder a few years ago as a low GI sweetener; although it can’t really replace the sweetness of sugar in cookies or other baked goods, it’s a great addition to something like a smoothie, which only needs a touch of sweetener, if any at all. Like maca, it also packs important vitamins and minerals, so you really can’t go wrong. 

If you ever have any questions about cooking and blending with superfood powders, leave your questions below! And for more smoothie inspo, see here for several of our favorite blends.

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