Craving cookie dough but not looking to overload on carbs? This cookie dough is for you.
You just stir together a few tablespoons of a few ingredients and voila, edible protein cookie dough. Zero prep required, it’s flourless!
You don’t have to buy expensive jars of “healthy” protein cookie dough from stores with sneaky preservatives or emulsifiers to mess with your gut and metabolism with.
Just make sure to choose a protein you like the flavor of. Although the real maple syrup in the recipe more than makes up for any lacking or artificial flavor from protein powders.
Also make sure you’re not sensitive to the protein since most powders have plenty of additives to make them taste good.
I’ve tried this recipe with whey and vegan proteins and it always works beautifully. Note that you might need to adjust the amount of protein or liquid you use for vegan powders.
You can just spoon the cookie dough, eat it as a snack or do what I do and chop it up into squares to top your ice cream or yogurt bowls with. It’s also great chopped small as ice-cream mix-ins, think Ninja Creami pints, yum!
Let me know if you give this one a try!
Mini-batch Protein Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp peanut butter (16 g) sub other nut/seed butter
- 1 tbsp maple syrup (21 g) sub sugar-free syrup
- 2 tbsp vanilla protein powder (15 g) plant-based if desired
- 1 tbsp chocolate chips (15 g) df if desired
Instructions
- In a small bowl add nut butter, maple syrup and a pinch of salt, and mix until evenly combined (microwaving for 10 seconds can help loosen up your nut butter).
- Add protein and mix. The cookie dough should come together but if too dry add 1/2 tsp water at a time until it does.
- Fold in chocolate chips. Press into a pan, or shape by hand using a parchment paper or muffin tin cavity, let it set in the fridge or freezer, about 10-20 min.
- Chop into squares if you like. Keep refrigerated and enjoy!
Notes
- Use my ALOHA referral link to save on their products: https://aloha.com/MINIBATCH
I made this with Ghost’s vegan pancake batter protein and it was so good! Simple and satisfying!
Hi Liz! so glad to hear it! i loooove ghost protein, i really liked the vegan cinnamon roll, have to get my hands on the pancake batter soon! hope you give more recipes a try and keep me posted!