Protein Chocolate Chip Cookies – Texanerin Baking

These protein chocolate chip cookies are completely chewy with a crisp exterior and style simply as scrumptious as common chocolate chip cookies. They use a mixture of almond and coconut flour and are grain-free, dairy-free and may also be made vegan, keto and paleo.

I feel these cookies are much more scrumptious than my Good Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies, from which these protein cookies are tailored.

After I first baked them, it smelled like my reminiscence of what a Popeye’s smells like (that reminiscence is now about 20 years outdated, so not very dependable). 😄 One time, I believed it smelled like a donut store I recall going into as a child.

I don’t know why. They by some means scent a bit deep-fried when baking. At the least they did when making the non-keto variations and utilizing one of many 3 protein powders I experimented with.

Please don’t let that description fear you. These cookies are good. And so they’re actually not deep-fried. 😉

Whilst you can’t style the protein powder in any respect in my Protein Brownies or Protein Pudding, you get a touch of it in these cookies. However for those who shared these cookies with somebody who didn’t know they had been protein cookies, they’d in all probability don’t know.

However aside from that one brownie and pudding recipe, these are the least-protein-tasting protein treats I’ve ever had.

I’ve had quite a bit, and so they’re normally fairly gross. So for those who’re uncertain of those cookies, I get it. However with these cookies, and my different protein recipes, you actually don’t must hesitate!

So long as you utilize one of many protein powders I used and also you observe the recipe, it is best to have implausible outcomes.

Listed here are just a few of my different favourite protein desserts and snacks:

Substances

Notice that almond meal was used right here and never almond flour, which is what I name for within the recipe. Bob’s Crimson Mill modified the identify of their almond meal to Tremendous-Tremendous Pure Almond Flour. It was beforehand known as Pure Almond Meal.

Their almond flour is named Tremendous-Tremendous Almond Flour. You’ll be able to in all probability see how my photographer acquired tripped up!

The cookies got here out nice with almond meal (that’s what I’m calling it as a result of that’s what it’s), so you possibly can actually use it for those who want.

Additionally observe that the elements proven aren’t to scale.

The best way to make them

This can be a normal cookie recipe.

Simply combine collectively the dry elements and set the bowl apart. Then beat collectively the moist elements, and add the dry combination to the moist.

Stir till mixed, after which add within the chocolate chips.

Relying in your protein powder, you might want to sit back the dough first. For those who don’t must, then you possibly can go forward and bake them now.

Protein powder

I’ve examined these cookies with 3 manufacturers of protein powder. All of them are gluten-free, two are vegan and one paleo/keto. I examined the cookies utilizing chia eggs for the vegan model and common eggs for the non-vegan model with every of the three protein powders. None of them left a bizarre aftertaste.

I couldn’t have been happier with the outcomes!

Dr. Murray

For those who’re not paleo, then you should utilize Dr. Murray’s 3-Seed Vanilla Protein Powder. This one is vegan.

The elements are:

Vegan protein mix (pumpkin protein, flax protein, sunflower protein), pure flavors, MCT powder (MCT oil, soluble tapioca fiber), gum mix (natural guar gum, natural acacia gum, xanthan gum), monk fruit extract, lactobacillus paracasei.

That is the protein powder I all the time use. I like the style in sweets, and I exploit it every single day in my Matcha Protein Shake.

This one does have a stronger style than the opposite two powders beneath. My husband describes it as synthetic tasting however tasty.

There’s nothing synthetic in there, although!

It’s the one utilized in these pictures. It’s the least absorbent of the three protein powders, that means they unfold just a little bit extra and require chilling earlier than baking.

It’s additionally the most cost effective. Proper now, on iHerb, it’s $14.32/lb. Natural Protein Powder Plant-Based mostly Vanilla Bean is $15.52 for those who purchase the 2-pound container and Orgain Keto Collagen Protein Powder Vanilla Bean is $30.62/lb.

For those who use this one, your cookies will seem like the pictures. For those who use one of many different choices, your cookies can be just a little lighter in colour – extra like common chocolate chip cookies.

You’ll be able to see in step 1 of the step-by-step pictures above that it’s a bizarre colour and never a lightweight off-white like most vanilla protein powders. It’s the ingredient within the backside half of the bowl.

Keto Orgain

I additionally tried these cookies with Orgain Keto Collagen Protein Powder Vanilla Bean.

The elements are:

Collagen peptides, coconut medium chain triglycerides, pure flavors, acacia, sea salt, natural stevia

It doesn’t say paleo on the bundle description, however the product web page says paleo-friendly. It’s not vegan, although.

Pure flavors sound questionable, I do know, however the FDA defines pure flavors as “a substance extracted, distilled, or equally derived from pure sources like crops (fruits, herbs, veggies, barks, roots, and so forth.) or animals (meat, dairy merchandise, eggs, and so forth.) by way of a way of heating, with its major perform in meals being flavoring not dietary.”

So it feels like they’re certainly pure flavors and never some nasty concoction.

The third choice is Orgain Natural Vanilla Bean Protein Powder Plant-Based mostly.

The elements are:

Orgain natural protein mix™ (natural pea protein, natural brown rice protein, natural chia seed), Orgain natural creamer base™ (natural acacia, natural excessive oleic sunflower oil, natural rice dextrins, natural sunflower lecithin, natural rosemary extract), natural erythritol, natural pure flavors, natural acacia, sea salt, natural reb A (stevia extract), natural guar gum, xanthan gum, pure taste

I’m not alleged to have a few of these elements, so I acquired this one simply to check a second vegan choice in my protein recipes. It’s labored nice up to now.

Can I exploit chocolate protein powder?

I don’t suggest it. For those who use chocolate protein powder, the cookies gained’t be very chocolaty however somewhat have only a trace of chocolate. For those who add cocoa powder to make them extra chocolaty, then the proportions can be off.

Can I exploit unsweetened protein powder?

For those who don’t need the cookies to be a standard sweetness, then you should utilize unsweetened protein powder. For those who like liquid stevia or powdered stevia and simply have so as to add a drop or a pinch of that, you should utilize that.

Nevertheless, including in sufficient maple syrup or one other liquid sweetener to sweeten the cookies would completely throw the whole lot off. So don’t strive that.

What nut butter to make use of

Completely different nut and seed butters have completely different consistencies, making them not completely interchangeable in baking, regardless of what some folks declare.

However these cookies – a minimum of if utilizing one of many 3 protein powders I used – are so thick that it is best to have the ability to use no matter nut or seed butter you’d like. So long as it’s the pure sort with simply nuts/seeds and salt.

Can I cut back or omit the coconut sugar?

For those who cut back it, the cookies can be cakier and maybe not stick collectively. Sugar can be a binder. I don’t suggest decreasing it.

And no, you completely can’t simply omit it. There’s no approach that’d work.

Can I exploit a special model?

In case your protein powder doesn’t style good when combined in with a banana or different elements once you make a smoothie, then neither will these cookies.

One thing else to bear in mind is that each model absorbs liquid a bit in another way, so you might want just a little bit roughly protein powder to get the correct texture.

With Dr. Murray, the dough was fairly moist and wanted to be chilled earlier than forming into balls and baking. With the opposite 2 manufacturers, I may bake them immediately, and so they had been nonetheless thicker than those with Dr. Murray.

So your cookies might not come out trying good.

I’m solely capable of say that the cookies work for positive with these 3 merchandise as a result of that’s all I’ve experimented with. For those who strive a special model, please tell us the outcomes, and I’ll add your suggestions to the submit! Thanks. 🙂

Can I omit the protein powder?

No. If you wish to try this, please simply make the unique recipe.

Can I exploit completely different flours? Or simply use all of 1 kind?

Nope. It’s important to use the quantity of almond flour and coconut flour known as for within the recipe.

You may in all probability use a special kind of nut flour/meal for the almond butter, however there’s no sub for the coconut flour.

Can I exploit do-it-yourself almond flour?

I’ve a whole lot of expertise utilizing non-finely floor almond flour (which is what’s obtainable in Germany) as a result of that’s what I take a look at my recipes with till I feel the recipe is ideal.

Then I change over to finely-ground almond flour (which I order from the US) after which take a look at all of the variations (keto + vegan, paleo + non-vegan, and so forth.) once more.

Home made almond flour isn’t finely floor. For those who use do-it-yourself almond flour, these cookies will probably unfold fairly a bit and be greasy. I feel the sides of the cookies would even be fairly lacy.

You’ll be able to actually experiment, however don’t anticipate your cookies to come back out like they need to.

I had my photographer get Bob’s Crimson Mill for each kinds of flour.

Vegan choice

All you must do is use a chia egg, vegan protein powder and vegan chocolate chips.

Paleo choice

So long as you utilize paleo protein powder and paleo chocolate chips, these cookies are paleo.

Keto choice

I used 88 grams of a Light Candy copycat instead of the sugar and the Orgain keto protein powder I discussed above.

The cookies got here out superb! There was zero aftertaste within the cookies.

I used to be fairly amazed as a result of… keto sweetener + protein powder?! I believed they’d be horrible.

However I ought to say that I used my ordinary chocolate within the cookie dough. My intestine doesn’t like keto sweeteners, so I keep away from them when potential.

For those who use keto chocolate, then there’ll in all probability be an aftertaste, but it surely’ll be from the chocolate.

They didn’t caramelize and crisp up in any respect because of the sweetener, so that they had been fairly mushy. However as soon as that they had cooled fully, there have been a minimum of agency sufficient to bundle up.

To make an enormous batch of the do-it-yourself Light Candy copycat I used

• 1 pound (453 grams) xylitol = 2 1/4 cups
• 12 ounces (340 grams) erythritol = 1 1/2 cups + 3 tablespoons
• 2 teaspoons pure stevia powder

This copycat isn’t a 1:1 sub for granulated sugar or coconut sugar. After I use this mix, I exploit about 2/3 (typically rather less) of the quantity of granulated sugar known as for.

In order that’s what I did right here. I simply multiplied the grams of coconut sugar by .66. You may even use a tiny bit much less for those who’d like.

They weren’t overly candy, however I feel you possibly can get away with possibly 75 grams.

The next information is supplied as a courtesy and is an estimate solely. I’m not a nutritionist nor a dietician. This data comes from on-line calculators. Though I do the whole lot to try to offer correct dietary data, these figures are solely estimates. Remember that various elements akin to product varieties or manufacturers used can change dietary data in any recipe.

This makes use of Light Candy, 1 cup of Choc Zero Darkish Chocolate Chips, an everyday egg and half-sized cookies. 75-gram dough balls, as known as for within the recipe, yield enormous cookies. For those who’re keto, I don’t imagine you’re alleged to (on the whole) be having enormous cookies.

I checked the dietary labels of another keto cookie recipes, and this appears to be about the usual dimension. The keto protein powder I used has rather less protein than the opposite 2 varieties I examined. These cookies each have round 9.2 grams of protein per full-sized cookie.

I hope you’ll take pleasure in these protein chocolate chip cookies! For those who strive them out, I’d love to listen to your ideas. Thanks!

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• Prep Time: 15 min
• Prepare dinner Time: 12 min
• Prepared in: 27 min
• Yield: 8 massive cookies

Please learn the recipe notes earlier than starting.

Substances

• 3/4 cup (75 grams) finely blanched almond flour
• 1/4 cup (32 grams) coconut flour
• 1/3 cup (31-42 grams) vanilla protein powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons (84 grams) refined coconut oil, softened however NOT melty
• 2/3 cup (133 grams) very tightly packed coconut sugar or 88 grams Light Candy for keto
• 6 tablespoons (98 grams) pure almond butter
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 massive egg, chilly or 1 chia egg for vegan
• 1 1/4 cups (213 grams) semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided (vegan or keto, if wanted)

Instructions

1. In a medium mixing bowl, stir collectively the almond flour, coconut flour, protein powder, baking soda and salt. Put aside.
2. In a big mixing bowl with an electrical hand mixer or utilizing a stand mixer, beat collectively the coconut oil, coconut sugar, almond butter and vanilla at medium velocity till effectively mixed, about 1 minute.
3. Beat within the egg or chia egg on low and blend till effectively integrated. Stir within the flour combination till effectively mixed.
4. Stir in 1 cup (170 grams) chocolate chips.
5. In case your dough is simply too mushy to kind balls simply (I solely skilled this with Dr. Murray), place the bowl within the fridge for about 1 hour or till the dough is agency. For those who can simply roll balls, you possibly can go forward and bake now.
6. Preheat the oven to 350 °F (175 °C) and line a baking sheet with a chunk of parchment paper.
7. Roll the dough into 8 (75-gram) balls and place 8-9 chocolate chips on prime of every one in order for you them to seem like the pictures. Place 3″ aside on the ready baking sheet. Press the cookies down with the palm of your hand.
8. Bake for 11-14 minutes or till the floor of the middle of the cookies now not seems moist. They will be very mushy however will proceed to prepare dinner as they sit on the cookie sheet.
9. Let cool fully and retailer in an hermetic container for as much as 5 days, refrigerate for 1 week or freeze as much as 3 months. The dough may also be frozen.

Notes

1. I used Bob’s Crimson Mill almond flour and coconut flour. For those who use a special model that is much less finely floor, your cookies might unfold extra and be greasier. For people who stay outdoors of the US, almond flour = floor blanched almonds and will not be no matter interprets into “almond flour” in your language.
2. If utilizing Dr. Murray, add an additional teaspoon of coconut flour to the dough.
3. The quantity of protein powder in grams varies relying in your protein powder model. I discover it is best to go by quantity for protein powder recipes. 1/3 cup of Orgain Keto Collagen Protein Powder Vanilla Bean = 31 grams, Dr. Murray’s Vanilla = 42 grams, and Orgain Natural Vanilla Bean Protein Powder Plant-Based mostly = 38 grams.
4. I used refined coconut oil for no coconut style
5. It is actually greatest to weigh coconut sugar. Some manufacturers are denser than others.
6. The almond butter should not have any added fats or sugar. Simply almonds and probably salt. You should use different kinds of nut/seed butter, however you cookies might come out flatter or thicker.
7. To make a chia egg, use 1 tablespoon floor chia seeds + 3 tablespoons water. Combine collectively in a small bowl till gloopy like an egg.

Recipe by Texanerin Baking | www.texanerin.com