Chocolate Peanut Butter protein No-bake Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- ¼ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 2 scoops chocolate protein powder (I used Orgain for Macros)
- ½ cup creamy natural nut butter of choice, (I used Organic Peanut butter for Macros)
- ½ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk.
- ¼ cup coconut nectar or honey.
- 2 Tablespoons cacao powder. (Cocoa powder will be more tasty but a tad less macro friendly, (you choose).
- ½ teaspoon vanilla.
- ⅛ teaspoon sea salt.
Directions
1) Combine oatmeal and protein powder in a medium sized mixing bowl. Stir until there’s a nice dusting of protein powder over all the oatmeal.
2) Place almond milk, peanut butter, nectar, cocoa powder and sea salt in a saucepan and cook over medium-low heat, stirring often until cocoa powder is completely dissolved and the sauce has thickened. Take the pan off the heat and stir in vanilla.
3) Pour peanut butter chocolate mixture over oats/protein powder and mix until all pieces of the oatmeal are covered.
4) Place batter in the fridge for 10 minutes to let the batter set up – this step is optional, but the cookies will be cool and much easier to shape if you do it. Form them into small balls, they will last for ages in the fridge and can be frozen!