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NO-BAKE PEANUT BUTTER
PROTEIN BARS
This delicious high-protein bar recipe makes 7 bars despite 6 being pictured. I confess I ate one before I did the photographs. Too tempting! These taste a bit like the flavor of a peanut butter cup.
Are you having trouble reaching your protein goal for the day? Protein bars can help with that for sure. Problem with buying commercial varieties - they are expensive and often have undesirable ingredients in them. Homemade protein bars are the best! You could choose to use another nut butter, if desired.
They make a great post-workout snack or anytime really when you need extra energy. This nutrient-dense snack hits the spot for those times. Keep them handy in the fridge. 15 grams of protein per bar is huge considering 1 cup of diced chicken only has 8 grams of protein and one egg has 6 grams of protein. A big surprise though is that 1 cup of Greek yogurt contains 20 grams of protein. Top that with cottage cheese and you have a high protein snack that will go a long way towards meeting your protein requirements for the day.
You could add chopped nuts to the protein bar batter, dough or mixture, whatever it is called, if desired. Keep these in an airtight container in the refrigerator. If you like instead of creamy peanut butter you can use another nut butter such as sunflower seed butter, cashew butter (higher in carbs) or almond butter. Simple ingredients that you can play with. You could also keep these in the freezer.
To intensify the vanilla flavor, add vanilla extract, to taste. To melt the chocolate, I nuke it in a bowl in the microwave oven. Instead of vanilla protein powder, you could use chocolate protein powder for a different look and flavor. The type of protein powder that you use will matter as it will affect the taste of these protein bars.
You could also make peanut butter protein balls instead and roll them in the molten chocolate, place on parchment paper on a plate and in the freezer to harden the chocolate.
You can use any dark chocolate chips that are sugarless.
This is a simple recipe of simply adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients; a quick no-bake protein bar. This protein bar made with natural peanut butter is almost like dessert for me.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup sugarless peanut butter (250 mL)
Liquid sweetener to equal 1/2 cup sugar (125 mL)
1/4
cup heavy cream (60 mL)
2 tbsp honey substitute (30 mL)
3/4
cup vanilla whey protein powder (175 mL)
Chocolate Glaze:
1/4
cup sugarless chocolate chips (60 mL)
1 tbsp unsalted butter (15 mL)
Spray
8 x 4-inch (20 x 10 cm) loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Line with parchment paper.
In
food processor, process peanut butter, heavy cream and honey substitute. Add vanilla whey protein powder;
process. Press into prepared loaf pan.
Chocolate Glaze: In small bowl,
combine chocolate chips and butter. Nuke
at 30 second increments until molten and stir together. Spread over top of protein bars. Refrigerate.
Yield: 7 bars
1
serving
312.3
calories
15.0
g protein
24.1
g fat
0 g fiber
6.2
g net carbs