Chocolate Protein Squares

This is exactly how I felt when I woke up this morning!

My family left for the airport today. It’s always a bit sad to say goodbye to them knowing we won’t see each other for awhile. My extra long weekend was packed with lots of fun, but I think it all caught up with me, because today I was exhausted! I’m sure all of the wine drinking didn’t help. 😉 I’m glad that I did that three-day detox just about a week before they visited, because my liver took a beating with my family in town. Hey, it’s okay if that happens once in awhile right? All I can do is take a nice break from alcohol and eat super clean moving forward – which is exactly what I plan to do! I also will be getting to sleep nice and early tonight.

While my family was in town, I whipped up some yummy eats & drinks. Most were recipes that I’ve talked about on the blog before, including homemade salsa, guacamole, sangria and pizza. But I also wanted to come up with a new snack idea. My parents and siblings are active, fit people, so protein-packed snacks are always appealing to them. Keeping this in mind, I sought to create my very first recipe for protein brownies.

I came to the conclusion that since I think of brownies as a fudgy, super moist dessert, I’m instead calling this recipe chocolate protein squares. They’re a good post-workout snack if you’re in the mood for something chocolatey and cake-like, yet protein-packed and healthy.

Chocolate Protein Squares

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Total Time 35 minutes mins

Servings 9

Calories 210 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 3 scoops chocolate protein powder
• 1/4 cup Truvia baking blend sugar
• 1/2 cup almond butter
• 1 TSP baking powder
• 1/2 TSP salt
• 2 eggs
• 2 TBSP cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1/2 TSP vanilla extract

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350.
• In a large bowl, beat almond butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and almond milk together.
• Add in protein powder, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, and beat everything together well.
• Mix chocolate chips into the batter.
• Pour batter into an 8x11 pan coated with baking spray.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick can go into brownies and come out clean.
• Let cool, then cut into 9 squares.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 210kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 11gFat: 13gSaturated Fat: 4gFiber: 3gSugar: 7g

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