One of my favorite flavors of fall is pumpkin.  I love how incredibly convenient it is to cook with pumpkin.  Thanks to a booming pumpkin pie industry you can easily buy recipe-ready canned pumpkin with no added salt or other ingredients.  It doesn’t get much easier than that!

When you think about pumpkin in food your thoughts probably go straight to the afore mentioned pumpkin pie, but there is really so many other things you can do with it besides pie – pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pancakes, even pumpkin in chili.   Today though, I keeping it cool and easy with a Pumpkin Pie Smoothie.  We can get to all that other stuff next week.

My tip for making this recipe is to make sure you chill the canned pumpkin and apple cider in the refrigerator prior to make making the smoothie.  Smoothies are best cold and if you use the canned pumpkin and apple cider straight out of the pantry they are going to melt your other ingredients.

Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

Prep time: 5 minutes  -  Cook time: 0  - Makes:

• 2/3 cup canned pumpkin, refrigerated
• 1 frozen bananas, each cut into 4-6 pieces
• 1 cup apple cider, cold
• 1 6-oz container vanilla yogurt
• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 4 ginger snaps or 1 whole graham crackers
• 1/2 cup ice

Optional garnish:

• whipped cream
• ginger snaps or graham crackers

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