Keto Chocolate Peppermint Shake
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Introduction
This festive Keto Chocolate Peppermint Shake is perfect for the holidays! It is sweet, creamy, and perfectly refreshing.
Shakes are one of life’s greatest gifts. Seriously! Well, unless they are full of spinach and/or kale.
A good shake is creamy, cool, and just a tad sweet. If you agree, you will love this delicious keto chocolate peppermint shake!
We worked hard to make sure that this shake not only tasted great, but that it had the perfect texture. No one wants to try and suck concrete through a straw, while at the same time, it isn’t very satisfying to slurp up a melty, room-temperature concoction.
What you want is thick enough to climb the straw and cold enough to still be cold at the bottom of the glass. That is where the cream cheese and the half cup of ice come in.
Best Holiday Keto Drinks
This one is a cross between a peppermint mocha and a peppermint milkshake, sort of, and it is not seasonal in any way that matters — you can make it in July. If you want the other holiday classic, we have a keto version of the love-it-or-hate-it one too: our Best Keto Eggnog tastes like the eggnog you know, without the sugar.
Ingredients Needed For Keto Peppermint Chocolate Shake
Easy ingredients that you hopefully already have at home!
Scroll down to recipe card for full recipe and measurements!
Combine all your ingredients together and blend with your ninja blender. You’re done! Simple as that, yum!
Peppermint Shake Flavor
On it’s own, this is a great keto chocolate shake.
But, we’ve taken this shake to the next level by adding just a tad of peppermint extract in to the mix, and it is a game changer! Not only did we add some peppermint extract into the shake, but we also added another delicious ingredient: ChocZero’s Peppermint Honest Syrup.
The syrup is doing two things at once. It is sugar free, so it sweetens without adding sugar, and it is thick, so two teaspoons of it give the shake a little more body than extracts and sweetener alone would. It is optional in the card for a reason — the shake works without it — but it is the version we make.
How To Sweeten Your Keto Shakes
What’s a peppermint shake without sweetener?
To make this shake you’ll need a keto friendly sweetener. We use Lakanto’s monk fruit, a blend built to measure 1:1 with sugar, so you can sweeten this shake by the spoonful a regular one would take. A blended drink is unforgiving about grit, so if you only have a granulated sweetener give it an extra few seconds in the blender.
Helpful Tools and Ingredients
- Nutri Ninja blender — the shake needs a blender that can crush half a cup of ice and take the cream cheese completely smooth.
- Milk bottle glasses
- Peppermint extract — half a teaspoon is where the peppermint comes from; the syrup below is extra.
- ChocZero peppermint syrup — optional, for extra peppermint flavor.
You’ll find the full per-serving breakdown — calories, fat, fiber, protein, and net carbs — in the Nutrition Facts panel with the recipe below.
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Enjoy!
Keto Chocolate Peppermint Shake
5 net carbsIngredients
- ½ cup ice
- 1 cup almond milk, unsweetened
- 2 oz cream cheese
- 2 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 1 tbsp lakanto classic monkfruit sweetener
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder, unsweetened
- ½ tsp peppermint extract
- 2 tsp choczero peppermint syrup (optional)
- whipped cream (optional)
Nutrition Facts
1 serving per recipe| Per Serving 360 | Per Recipe 360 | |||
| 1 cup of almond milk, unsweetened | 30 | 30 | ||
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 202.5 | 202.5 | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 100 | 100 | ||
| 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 15 | 15 | ||
| ½ tsp of peppermint extract | 5 | 5 | ||
| 2 tsp of choczero peppermint syrup | 5 | 5 | ||
| 34g | 43% | 34g | 43% | |
| 1 cup of almond milk, unsweetened | 2.5 g | 2.5 g | ||
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 20.25 g | 20.25 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 10 g | 10 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| 19g | 96% | 19g | 96% | |
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 12.15 g | 12.15 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 7 g | 7 g | ||
| Trans Fat | 0g | 0% | 0g | 0% |
| 101mg | 34% | 101mg | 34% | |
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 60.75 mg | 60.75 mg | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 40 mg | 40 mg | ||
| 450mg | 19% | 450mg | 19% | |
| ½ cup of ice | 4.75 mg | 4.75 mg | ||
| 1 cup of almond milk, unsweetened | 170 mg | 170 mg | ||
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 222.75 mg | 222.75 mg | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 10 mg | 10 mg | ||
| 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 40 mg | 40 mg | ||
| 21g | 8% | 21g | 8% | |
| 1 cup of almond milk, unsweetened | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 2.02 g | 2.02 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 0.8 g | 0.8 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of lakanto classic monkfruit sweetener | 12 g | 12 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 3 g | 3 g | ||
| ½ tsp of peppermint extract | 0.25 g | 0.25 g | ||
| 2 tsp of choczero peppermint syrup | 2.33 g | 2.33 g | ||
| 4g | 14% | 4g | 14% | |
| 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 2 g | 2 g | ||
| 2 tsp of choczero peppermint syrup | 2 g | 2 g | ||
| 12g | 12g | |||
| 1 tbsp of lakanto classic monkfruit sweetener | 12 g | 12 g | ||
| Allulose | 0g | 0% | 0g | 0% |
| 5g | 5g | |||
| 1 cup of almond milk, unsweetened | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 2.02 g | 2.02 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 0.8 g | 0.8 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| ½ tsp of peppermint extract | 0.25 g | 0.25 g | ||
| 2 tsp of choczero peppermint syrup | 0.33 g | 0.33 g | ||
| 7g | 14% | 7g | 14% | |
| 1 cup of almond milk, unsweetened | 1 g | 1 g | ||
| 2 oz of cream cheese | 4.05 g | 4.05 g | ||
| 2 tbsp of heavy whipping cream | 0.8 g | 0.8 g | ||
| 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, unsweetened | 1 g | 1 g | ||
About these numbers: We are home cooks, not certified nutritionists. Nutrition is shared as a courtesy. We pick a representative product for each ingredient, and our recipe system works out the totals from the amounts in this recipe, so please treat them as a helpful estimate rather than a guarantee. The brands you buy, any swaps you make, and how generously you portion the recipe will all move these numbers.
Directions
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Blend all ingredients together until smooth. Feel free to top with some whipped cream. Enjoy!
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Correction — October 5, 2026: This shake is made with Lakanto monk fruit sweetener. The recipe card had listed a different one, and the nutrition numbers now match Lakanto too.
