Monday, April 15, 2013

DARK CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER PROTEIN BARS


Ingredients: (mixed together with a spoon/fork) Makes six: 

1.5 cups of chocolate brown rice protein powder (you can sub this with casein if you want or whey or a combo of casein and whey) 
3/4 cup of oat flour (or coconut flour or ground almonds) 
1/4 cup of smooth organic peanut butter (or almond butter or sunflower butter or coconut oil) 
1/8 cup of chopped pecans (or seeds or chocolate pieces) 
1/8 cup of flaked coconut (optional) 
1 and a 1/2 cup of milk (basically enough to bind the above mix together; you can use but milk, cow's milk, rice milk, hemp milk - anything you like)

Directions:


Make a pasty, thick, nonsticky batter that you can eat raw. This is where the oat flour/coconut flour/ground almonds come in handy - they dry up the mix, making it 'bitable'. What you DON'T want, is to end up with a hard or really sticky batter because then your protein bar will be annoying you chew threw.
 You mix all the above ingredients together and then, in a bain marie (a pot inside a pot), you melt some chocolate (I used 87% dark). After your bars are nicely shaped (note: you do NOT need to bake them), you just either coat them in chocolate by throwing them inside the melted chocolate, or you spoon the melted chocolate on top. When coated, just throw them in the freezer for 15-20 minutes and READY!!!!! Wrap them in tin foil .


Macros per bar: 225kcals, 15g protein, 12g carb (2.5g sugars), 16g fat and 5g fiber. Remember, to tweak your macros, just tweak your filling! You can, for instance, up the protein and lower the carbos by using almond flour, you can reduce the fat by using less nut butter, you can up the carbos by, say, throwing in a date or two, etc etc 

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