Today I'm going to review a very simple and easy-to-make recipe that tastes absolutely decadent. Once you try these delicious protein oat cookies you will wonder how you lived without them in your life!
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| Decadent Protein Oat Cookies Photo by Louanne Cox |
You will need the following ingredients:
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 egg
- 1 cup oats (see baker's notes)
- 1/2 cup protein powder (I used Arbonne's vegan protein powder that is also gluten-free)
- 2 tbsp raw cacao powder
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips (I used Sweet William dark choc buttons, they are dairy-free, nut-free and gluten-free)
Now that you've checked you have all of your ingredients why don't you go ahead and preheat your oven to 180C or 350F.
Let's bake!
First, mash up your ripe bananas and then add your egg, beating it together (if you want to make these cookies vegan you can use a flax egg).
I mix up all of the dry ingredients in another bowl before adding to the wet ingredients, but I'm sure you could do it all in one bowl if you so desired.
So mix the oats, protein powder, cacao powder and chocolate chips together. Now the recipe that I loosely based this on said that you could use 1/2 cup of quinoa in place of the protein powder - I haven't tried that, but quinoa is a source of protein so a great idea if you don't have any protein powder.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix together really well. The mixture is quite sticky and it makes quite a soft cookie so I definitely recommend lining your baking sheet with baking paper.
Now I don't mind a rustic-looking cookie so I just used a spoon to get some mix, popped it on the baking paper and flattened it with the back of the said spoon.
Bake them for 13-15 minutes until they are browned and slightly tender to the touch.
Extra Baker's Notes
Now let's talk about a few of the ingredients. When it comes to the protein powder I used a limited edition choc mint flavour protein powder last time which was delicious and I thoroughly recommend getting this if it's still available. I would usually just use chocolate protein powder, but since trying this combination I know that when I run out I'll be experimenting with a few drops of orange essence, strawberry essence and (of course) peppermint.
I used dark chocolate buttons because I wanted to use dark chocolate and they only had them in buttons as opposed to the smaller chips. I will continue to use buttons because they add such a decadent taste to these cookies. I can't describe how much of a treat these tasted like and yet they were on my healthy eating plan!
If the mixture seems a little too dry I did (on one occasion) add 1 tbsp of water to the mix, it made no difference to the outcome so don't be afraid of doing that, but I wouldn't add much as it shouldn't be a sloppy mix.
A quick note on oats, I'll be honest I just use regular oats. Oats do not naturally contain gluten, however, in the processing of the oats they can become contaminated apparently which is why celiacs should always grab the gluten-free oats.
A Treat for Celiacs
I actually work with a celiac, a lady who's lactose intolerant and a third lady who can't eat nuts so these cookies are absolutely perfect for them. Knowing that I can also eat them on the 30 days to healthy living program is amazing.
As I have said previously you can also make this vegan by using a flax egg - click on the link above if you haven't made a flax egg before, it is very easy.
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