UNICORN CLOUD SMOOTHIE
makes 825 g · total 5m · tested

A dreamy pink strawberry-banana smoothie with a secret "birthday cake"
flavor — now with a milk-powder richness boost for extra-creamy
milkshake body. Built for a seamless tare-and-pour workflow.

INGREDIENTS
  -- Main --
      245 g   milk
       25 g   milk powder (milkshake-shop trick)
      185 g   vanilla honey Greek yogurt
      118 g   banana (peeled; ripe, about 1 medium)
       21 g   honey (plus more to taste)
        2 g   vanilla extract
      0.5 g   almond extract (the secret magic)
      0.3 g   salt
      225 g   strawberries (frozen)
        4 g   chia seeds (optional; unicorn sparkle dust)

STEPS
  Load
    1. Tare and load the Vitamix: Set the Vitamix container on the scale
       and tare. Add milk, then milk powder directly into the milk and
       tare. Follow with yogurt, banana, honey, vanilla extract, almond
       extract, and salt, taring between each. Milk powder goes in early
       so it fully dissolves in the vortex.
    2. Add the frozen strawberries: Add the strawberries on top and
       confirm total weight (~825 g before chia). Frozen fruit goes
       last, closest to the lid, so it feeds into the blend gradually
       instead of jamming the blades.
  Blend
    1. Blend to cloud consistency: Start on low, ramp quickly to high,
       and blend until completely smooth and creamy — zero strawberry
       seed grit, zero milk powder graininess. Use the tamper if it
       forms an air pocket.
    2. Taste test: Taste it. Sweeter: add honey in 5–10 g increments and
       pulse. Too thick: add milk 20–30 g at a time. Too thin: add 30–50
       g more frozen strawberries. Want it even richer: add 10 g more
       milk powder.
    3. Add the sparkle dust: Pour into a fancy glass and sprinkle chia
       seeds on top as unicorn sparkle dust — or blend them in at step 1
       if she'd rather not see them. A dollop of yogurt swirled on top
       makes a "cloud."

EQUIPMENT
  Scale, Vitamix (or high-powered blender), tamper.

FOOD SAFETY
  Keep dairy refrigerated until use.

STORAGE
  Best enjoyed immediately.

LICENSE
  CC BY 4.0: share and adapt freely, credit longproof and link to
  https://longproof.duckdns.org/recipes/unicorn-cloud-smoothie.txt
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/