Yes, pumpkin! I love pumpkin pie so, even though it’s June, I was curious how close this smoothie from Oh She Glows would come to matching the flavour. The only changes I made to the recipe were minor: I used a fresh banana in lieu of a frozen one (poor planning); I did not soak the oats or chia seeds because instead of whole rolled oats and seeds, I used quick cut oats and ground seeds; and, finally, as it was very thick after all that, I did add some ice and a splash more Almond milk (as suggested on the recipe page).
The weirdest thing for me was to scoop the pumpkin puree in there (I was pleasantly surprised to find that the pumpkin pie filling in the can had one ingredient: pumpkin.) Actually, scratch that, the weirdest thing was adding molasses. We always seem to have molasses in the house but I have no idea, other than making traditional gingerbread, why it exists. Anyway, in it went along with the spices and everything else.
Final verdict? Neither a hit nor miss. I think for me, it was not sweet enough. I should have realized from the recipe that it was not going to be very sweet — pumpkin pie almost always includes sugar — usually brown sugar — so I guess the idea was to use the molasses as an homage to the brown sugar but it sure didn’t make it flavourful. As for the pumpkin, it wasn’t the primary flavour (banana) or even the secondary one (cinnamon), so I’d say this particular recipe needs some tweaking.