I just made a protein bar that tastes like cake!

snakesandladders2

Hello everyone,

I have dabbled a bit in trying to invent my own protein bars before, and every time I tried it has been a bit nicer. This time it was delicious and tasted just like cake (except maybe not quite as sweet).

The principles on which I base try my prake (protein cake, lol ) are that:

- Each ingredient should have nutritional benefit (I manage except for cocao and vanilla),
- Calories should be as low as possible,
- while protein should be as high as possible,
- and each serving should have some good oils to help absorption of protein.

The latest chocolate "prake" has 54 calories per piece, 5g protein, 3g carbohydrate and 2g fat. All the carbs are natural / wholegrain and all the fat is "good fat". So this "prake" should be a veritable gut-buster! If you make this, the calories will obviously vary a bit depending on your ingredients.

Bear in mind also that when you read this and when you start to make this, you will think: "uuuuuugh, what the heck is S&L doing putting THOSE THINGS together, and in a cake!". But actually the cake mix tastes like a proper cake mix - just bear with me!

Ingredients:
- 1 apple (mine was a medium braeburn, 108g)
- 1 avocado
- 1 egg white
- 1 whole egg
- few drops vanilla essence
- 3 heaped scoops chocolate whey protein powder (75g ish)
- 25g wheat bran
- 40g wholemeal flour
- 10g cocoa
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 35g ground whole hazelnuts (with skins)
- 50ml of milk (exact amount depends on texture).

Method:

First preheat your oven to 150 degrees Celsius.

1) Using a blender, blend the apple (with skin but without the core) until it's just a goo. Add the avocado (no skin, no stone) and blend into the goo.
2) Add the vanilla essence and chocolate whey protein powder and blend until lump-free.
3) Add the egg and egg-white and blend until lump-free.
4) Add everything else (except the milk) and mix. Use a spatula for this stage and just fold the ingredients in.
5) Add the milk to bring the cake mix to a thick batter texture.
6) Line a brownie tin with baking parchment (no need to grease) and fill with the cake mix.
7) Bake for 15-20 mins in a preheated oven at 150 degrees Celsius.

Let me know how you like it!

It's so healthy, giving you wholemeal, fibre, good oil, protein...and it's delicious too! Even my boyfriend, who hates ANY healthy food, likes it - although he sprinkles some sugar on his.

Embera

sounds good but is there something i could substute for the weigh protine powder

snakesandladders2

Hm, not sure, I think then it would just be cake, lol!