If your dates are not soft, soak them in warm water for 5 minutes and then pit them.
Blend your dates and half a cup of your milk of choice, in order to get the caramel taste going. If you have a high power blender, good for you! As mine is anything but high power, I cut the dates in smaller pieces with regular kitchen scissors before adding them to the blender. Mind you, you might still get little specks in the final result, but I didn't mind.
Now add the rest of your ingredients except the chia seeds (if using) in your blender.
Blend until the desired consistency and creaminess is achieved (i.e. no big chunks of dates). This won't take more than 30 seconds/2 minutes depending on your blender.
Pour in a large mason jar, sprinkle your chia seeds on top and enjoy!
Notes
You can substitute peanut butter with any other nut butter: almond, cashew, sunflower, tahini, etc. Home-made would be even better!
You can substitute maca powder with lucuma or skip it all together, but you would be missing a lot of the healthy benefits of such powerful ingredients, thus making this smoothie less "secretly healthy".
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