…Infinite Life Fitness Recipe: Flourless Protein Peanut Butter Cookies…

Here is another healthier indulgence!

I have found that it is very easy for me to stick with my diet plan…if  i know that i can treat myself randomly with a HEALTHIER version of some of my favorite treats

Today i am going to share with you how I made flourless peanut butter protein cookies!

FIRST: I MADE MY OWN PEANUT BUTTER!!! 

Yes i made my own pure peanut butter

This was done by:

~1 1/4 cup UNSALTED Raw Peanuts

~1 Tablespoon Canola Oil

I got my BLENDER  and put in 1 1/4 cup of peanuts.  I then put in the 1 Tablespoon of canola oil.

THIS WAS THE TRICKY PART….I had to play around with the settings on my blender to get it to start to turn to “butter”

  • at first I chopped up the peanuts (there was a “chop” option on my blender)
  • I then “Whipped” the peanuts (with the “whip” option on my blender)
  • This took a little time because I would Whip the peanuts for about 15-20 seconds and then have to take the lid off and mix the peanut chunks up with the whipped butter that was developing on the bottom of the canister.  This was the part that took the longest (about 10 minutes)

After the peanut butter was the consistency of peanut butter I added ANOTHER 1/4 cup of the raw peanuts (I LOVE crunchy peanut butter….if you do not want crunchy peanut butter than I would just add 1 1/2 cups of peanuts when you first start!) I just blended this for another 15-20 seconds just to chop up the new big peanuts and to get it mixed in with the butter

 

Directions for making the cookies:

I wanted to try to make peanut butter for these cookies to use up some peanuts that I had gotten and needed to use. so you can use store-bought NATURAL peanut butter (look on the back of the label at the store! The only ingredients should be peanuts and salt and possibly oil)

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup Natural peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup Protein Powder (I used a chocolate peanut butter protein powder I picked up from Wal-Mart)
  • 1/4 cup liquid egg whites (or seperate the egg whites from 4 regular eggs)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:

  • Heat your over to 220 degrees
  • mix all of the ingredients into a bowl
  • I used a table-spoon measuring spoon and scooped out table-spoon size balls and placed them on a cookie sheet

I let the peanut balls cook for about 10 minutes.  i took them out and then flattened them with a fork (to give them “texture” on top and to allow them to “flatten” like regular cookies.  You can leave them as balls but it may take a little more time for them to cook.

I put them back into the over and let them cook for another 10 minutes (until they turned slightly browner in the over)

I took them out and let them cool off for about 10 minutes.

and Whhhaaa-Laaaaa! You have HEALTHIER peanut butter cookies!

Nutritional Information:

My batch made 10 cookies!  I made the batter and split it up in tablespoon size cookies.  You can make yours smaller/bigger but you will have to recalculate this information if you make them a different size!

Nutrition Per Cookie (made 10)

  • Calories: 145
  • Total Fat: 11 grams
  • Sodium: 20 grams
  • Carbs: 5 grams
  • Sugars: 1 gram
  • Protein: 9 grams

Nutrition for the WHOLE batch:

  • Calories: 1454
  • Total Fat: 111 grams
  • Sodium: 198 grams
  • Carbs: 54 grams
  • Sugars: 11 grams
  • Protein: 85 grams

IF you try these out please let me know how they turned out!! I would love to know!
I hope that you guys enjoy these HEALTHIER forms of treats that you can hopefully start to incorporate into your life!

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…Infinite Life Fitness Recipe: Flourless Protein Muffins!…

Well if you guys do not know, I consume quite a bit of protein.

It is always nice and refreshing to find new and exciting ways to make meals that have MORE protein but also have LOW calories and LOW carbs.

While surfing the net I have found quite a few recipes that I have tried…but i changed them slightly to fit my nutritional needs (low calories…low fat…low carbs….high in protein!)

If you do not follow me on Instagram than you probably should!!  I post new meals and meal examples almost everyday!

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Infinite Life Fitness Chocolate Flourless Protein Muffins:

Ingredients: 

  • 45 grams of (4.5 tablespoons) Chocolate Peanut Butter OR Chocolate flavored Protein Powder (ORDER THE PROTEIN I USED BY CLICKING HERE)
  • 45 grams of (4.5 tablespoons) unsweetened dark chocolate coco powder (or you can use regular chocolate
  • 120 grams of (8 tablespoons) egg whites (I used the inexpensive Wal-Mart brand liquid egg whites)
  • 1/2 tablespoon (or 1.5 teaspoons) baking powder
  • 60 grams of (about 5 tablespoons) Walden Farms Peanut Butter Spread (it can be bought at Wal-Mart or even on Amazon)
  • 100 grams of  (about 7 tablespoons)Fat-Free Cream Cheese
  • 40 grams (4 tablespoons) Truvia sweetener (you can use any sweetener you like, this just happens to be my favorite)

Directions:

    • Heat your oven to 350 degrees.
    • Weigh out all ingredients and put into a bowl
    • mix all ingredients in the bowl (you can use a hand mixer but i just used a wooden spoon.  Also, let the cream cheese set out about 20 minutes before you start so it is soft enough to mix in with the other ingredients)
    • Mix batter until it is nice and smooth! (I mixed it for about 10 minutes just to make sure to get the clumps out and to make it nice and smooth)
    • Pull out a muffin pan (or baking tray or glass cook ware)
    • oil pan with olive oil
  • use about 1/4 cup measuring cup and dip out mix and put into ONE muffin time (each muffin hole should get 1/4 cup of the mixed batter! This should make TEN muffins. The last (7th) muffin i did have to scrape the bowl to fill the last of the 1/4 cup to make the last muffin)
  • IF YOU USE COOKIE TRAY/GLASS COOKWARE: oil the cookware with olive oil to help prevent sticking.  Pour all of the batter into the tray or glassware (allowing it to settle like brownie batter) and put it in the over.  You will have to cut out your own square.  YOU WILL HAVE TO RECALCULATE total calories/fat/protein/carbs if you do it this way.  I split my mixture evenly between 7 muffins so what is listed below is not correct (if you make yours with the cookie tray/glass cookware)
  • bake for about 17-20 minutes (Just watch the muffins after 15 minutes! I could have taken mine out about a minute early…but i left it in for right at 20 minutes and they still came out very moist like muffins)
  • Take out of the oven and let stand/cool down for about 10 minutes

Nutritional Facts PER muffin:

  • Calories: 55.6
  • Carbs: 9.1 grams
  • Protein: 9.0 grams
  • Sugars: 1.4 grams
  • Total Fat: 0.6 grams
  • Sodium: 299 grams

Nutritional Fact FOR THE WHOLE BATTER:

  • Calories: 390
  • Carbs: 64 grams
  • Fat: 4 grams
  • Protein: 63 grams
  • Sugar: 10 grams
  • Sodium: 2094 grams
  • Take the numbers above and divide them by how even many muffins… brownie squares…or how ever many pieces you decide to divide the batter up by.

As you can see the muffins came out looking like REAL muffins…no flour…half of all the other crap most muffins (or brownies) are made out of!

The small white speckle on the right is cream cheese (just did not mix the batter good enough)

***NOTE***

the recipe that I copied this from had way more ingredients than what I used.  So you can double the above recipe if you would like.

IF YOU LIKE DARK CHOCOLATE YOU WILL LOVE THIS MUFFIN!! I am a HUGE fan of dark chocolate so this was amazing for me.  If you do not try using regular coco powder and also try using half of the amount listed above!  The dark chocolate coco taste was so strong with this batch that I was unable to taste ANY peanut butter taste (that was in the protein powder AND Waldens peanut butter spread) so next time I will use half of the amount I used for this batch to get more peanut butter taste.

But the muffins are fluffy…they smell great…they taste great…they were VERY simple to make…not a lot of ingredients and the ingredients I did buy I plan on using them again so  I will for sure get my moneys worth!

If you try these please let me know! I am always curious to see how other people make them!

You can add nuts or berries to these if you like to add more flavor.  You can play around with it and have fun!

ALSO Feel free to check out my other protein recipes such as:

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Sweet Potato Chocolate Fudge Cake (CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE) 

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Peanut Butter Protein Fudge (CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE) 

I hope that you enjoy these!