RECIPE: Healthy Chocolate Protein Date Muffins!

Here’s the recipe for Healthy Chocolate Protein Date Muffins , feel free to adjust as desired J

Mix all the below listed ingredients into a bowl and use hand mixer to mix!

·         2 Scoops of protein powder (My muffins are brown because I used chocolate protein powder.)

·         2 eggs

·         ½ cup of whole wheat flour

·         1 table spoon of chia seeds

·         2 teaspoons of vanilla

·         ½ teaspoon of baking powder

·         1 teaspoon of baking soda

·         ½ cup of organic pumpkin puree (This is what I used as a substitute for cooking oil; it’s a lot healthier for you. Another healthy alternative for cooking oil can be unsweetened apple sauce, works the same way and makes everything you bake soft and moist.)

·         Add fruits of choice (On my photo I used one cup of mixed blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and pomegranate seeds.)

·         Add 3 dates after completing date instructions shown below. (I only used three dates because it was my first time baking dates, but if you really enjoy the taste of dates feel free to use more. Or if you don’t like dates at all use a substitute item of choice.)

DATE INSTRUCTIONS:

-Boil one cup of water and toss the dry dates in, let them sit inside the boiling water for a few minutes. This will then cause the dates to soften, to check if dates have fully softened press down on them with a spoon once. If they feel generally soft, go ahead and dump out water and use spoon to mash dates in cup. Once they are somewhat mashed, mix them in with the remainder of the ingredient’s for overall mixing.

BAKING INSTRUCTIONS:

1.)    Preheat oven to 325 degrees

2.)    Grease a loaf pan, or just use cupcake sleeves

3.)    Pour all ingredients into cupcake sleeves or into pans

4.)    Sprinkle Walnuts or Almonds (This of course is optional)

5.)    Bake until a wooden pick inserted in center of the bread comes out clean.