"Almost Ice Cream" Chocolate Protein Shake

I've been experimenting with my blender again.  I said earlier that I thought If I used choclate protein powder I could create a 2.5 healthy mock Blizzard.  It didn't work!  I had overlooked the "freeze" factor and all I got was a thinish protein drink.  Remember, the in the blueberry "Blizzard" protein shake I had added 3/4 frozen blueberries.......the freeze factor.  There wasn't any frozen berries going into the chocolate "Blizzard" shake so all I could think of was some ice.  Bad idea!  All that accomplished was to water down what would have whipped into a nice thick protein drink.

This thought has been brewing in the back of my mind for a couple of days and today I pulled out the blender, chocolate protein powder and...........the freeze factor.  (Yesterday I poured about a cup of Almond milk into ice cube trays and froze it!)  Ah ha!  I think I've got it!

Of course your blender won't work if all you put in it are chunks of  frozen Almond Breeze, so I started with 1/2 cup cold Almond Breeze and topped it up with the "freeze factor" until the liquid reached around a cup.  Actually it was all stacked up so I really don't know what the heck that measurement was.  Oh well, this is just an experiment after all.  On top of that I added one scoop of chocolate protein powder and a couple of teaspoons of natural bran.........can't forget the fiber........remember he helps with the thickening and acts as a scrubbing brush in  our intestines.  Enough said about fiber.

WHIZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz went the blender and I discovered I had too much "freeze factor" in the carafe and everything just got hung up above the blades so I added a drizzle more almond milk to get things going again.  Away it went again and what I'd intended to be a mock chocolate "Blizzard" ended up looking more like ice cream!!!  OMG, this is fantastic, I thought but it really wasn't all that great after all.  It was too icy to be ice cream and not creamy enough to be a "Blizzard".  What I got I think, is a chocolate slushy.  Oh well, back to the drawing board...............