Chewy Chocolate Protein Bars (Recipe) Ingredients: 1 cup (125g) chocolate whey protein powder (I used ON’s 100% whey protein double rich chocolate flavour) 1.5 cups (200g) blended oats (blend before you weigh!) 1/2 cup (62.5ml) whole milk 100g milk/dark/ultra dark/combo chocolate Method: Put the protein powder and blended oats in a large bowl and mix with a fork. I’ve got red bits in mine because I used freeze-dried strawberries for a little extra flavour (there is none). Add the milk and use your hands to mix the ingredients together. The mixture becomes very sticky to work with so be patient! Make sure everything is mixed well, and make sure to scrape any ingredients off the bottom of the bowl (for dem gainz). Once that’s done, place the bar mixture on a piece of baking paper. Fold the baking paper over such that it envelopes the mixture. This will allow you to shape the bar with far less hassle. Roll out the mixture into a rectangle about 1 inch thick – the length and width don’t really matter as long as it’s rectangular in shape. Wrap up the block in the baking paper and put it in the freezer to solidify. Melt the chocolate in a bain marie or the microwave. Be careful not to let the chocolate come into contact with water otherwise it will seize. Remove the block from the freezer and use a large knife to cleave the block into smaller bars. Do not attempt to saw or cut through the block! Just press the knife down all the way through where you want to make the separation and pull the pieces off gently. Arrange the bars on a tray lined with baking paper and smother the bars with the melted chocolate. I quite like having the whole bar covered so I use a grease brush to make sure everything’s evenly spread – feel free to be less of a perfectionist and just slop everything on! Pop the trays in the fridge to chill for a couple of hours. When the chocolate has solidified, use a knife to cleave the bars out of the chocolate again. Some things to note: Depending on how you cut it up, you may end up with more or less pieces. I got 16 so the macros for the 38g bar is based on this! If you make the bars like I did, you will have a fair amount of leftover chocolate bits on the baking paper – eat it or save it for another time. I would recommend using a small piece of baking paper to hold on to the bars when eating them just so you don’t make a mucky pup of yourself. You can add flaxseed, coconut flakes or anything else you like – or swap the protein flavour! As long as you get the mixture to a consistency that will hold a bar shape, that’ll do. If it’s too dry, add a little more milk and that should sort it out. Macros: Per 38g bar (with chocolate) – 109.7 kcal | 8.2g P | 10g C | 3.9g F Per 100g (with chocolate) – 287.8 kcal | 21.5g P | 26.4g C | 10.1g F Per bar (without chocolate) – 76.4 kcal | 7.6g P | 8.1g C | 1.4g F Per 100g (without chocolate) – 239.7 kcal | 24g P | 25.5g C | 4.5g F #protein bars #recipe #mm cooks #food
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:26:17 +0000
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