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Kacey Musgraves' Deeper Wellness Smoothie (Erewhon Copycat)

Medium★ 4.9Yields: 1 large smoothie
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Kacey Musgraves' Deeper Wellness Smoothie (Erewhon Copycat)

Kacey Musgraves made a smoothie that looks like planet Earth from space and tastes like trail mix in liquid form, and that sentence alone should tell you this is something special. The Deeper Wellness has two visual zones: a chocolate-brown bottom and a blue-green top, designed to look like land and ocean. The flavor is earthy vanilla, dates, almond butter, and cacao with spinach and chlorella providing the green layer. It tastes like a chocolate almond granola bar got blended with a green juice and somehow the result is better than either of those things individually. The reviewers who tried it at Erewhon were unusually enthusiastic, calling it one of the best celebrity smoothies ever made, which tracks because it's the most unique concept in the lineup. Nobody else went for "planet Earth that tastes like trail mix." This is the exact recipe with the two-zone assembly. Same chocolate bottom, same blue-green top, same trail mix flavor. Named after her Grammy-winning album. Make it at home and donate the $21 you saved to the Altadena wildfire relief fund she was supporting. Or don't. But you should.

Ingredients

  • FOR THE BROWN BOTTOM LAYER:
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 2 pitted Medjool dates
  • 1 tablespoon almond butter
  • 1 tablespoon cacao powder
  • 1 tablespoon cacao nibs
  • 1/2 teaspoon maca powder
  • Pinch of sea salt
  • FOR THE BLUE-GREEN TOP LAYER:
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1 cup fresh spinach
  • 1 teaspoon chlorella powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon blue spirulina powder
  • 1 scoop vanilla collagen or protein powder
  • 1 teaspoon lion's mane mushroom powder (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • FOR THE TOP:
  • Coconut cream mixed with blue spirulina
  • Cacao nibs

Instructions

  1. 1

    Blend the brown layer

    Add the almond milk, frozen banana, dates, almond butter, cacao powder, cacao nibs, maca, and sea salt to your blender. Blend until smooth and thick. This should be a rich chocolate-brown. Pour into a bowl and set aside. Rinse the blender.

  2. 2

    Blend the green-blue layer

    Add the almond milk, spinach, chlorella, blue spirulina, collagen, lion's mane, and maple syrup to the blender. Blend until smooth and a vivid blue-green. The chlorella and spirulina together create that ocean-from-space color.

  3. 3

    Layer it like a planet

    Pour the brown chocolate layer into the bottom third of your cup. Then slowly pour the blue-green layer over the back of a spoon to fill the top two thirds. The brown represents land, the blue-green represents ocean. You're holding the Earth in a cup. That's not pretentious, that's the actual design concept.

  4. 4

    Top and serve

    Swirl coconut cream mixed with a pinch of blue spirulina on top for clouds. Sprinkle cacao nibs over everything. The brown, blue-green, and white together genuinely look like a planet. Drink it and taste the best trail mix smoothie you've ever had.

Baker's Notes

  • The trail mix flavor comes from the almond butter, dates, cacao, and maca working together. Don't skip any of them. They're all contributing to that specific nutty-chocolaty-earthy profile.
  • Chlorella and blue spirulina together create a more convincing ocean blue-green than either alone. Chlorella alone is too dark green. Spirulina alone is too bright blue. Together they're Earth.
  • The maca powder adds a slightly malty, butterscotch-adjacent flavor that makes the chocolate layer taste more complex. If you've never used maca, this is a great introduction.
  • This smoothie raised money for Altadena Girls, a nonprofit helping teens displaced by the LA wildfires. Kacey didn't just make a smoothie, she made a smoothie with a purpose. That matters.

Nutrition

Calories

450

Fat

16g

Carbs

60g

Protein

20g

Sugar

36g

Serving

1 smoothie

Notes

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FAQ

Does this really taste like trail mix?
Yes. The almond butter, dates, cacao, and maca create an almost granola-bar quality that's nutty, chocolaty, and earthy all at once. Multiple reviewers at Erewhon independently compared it to trail mix without being prompted. It's a very specific and very accurate description.
Why two layers?
Because if you blend spinach with chocolate you get brown-green. And brown-green doesn't look like Earth, it looks like a mistake. The two-layer approach keeps the colors distinct and the Planet Earth concept intact.

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