Anyway, Poose cookies, like my nickname, have morphed over time, and now I bring to you the NEW and IMPROVED PROTEIN POOSE COOKIE!!!
*ta daaaa*
let the drooling begin! It's a healthy cookie, packed with whole wheat flour, oats, protein powder... eat them as a snack, eat them as a meal, just eat them! I'm in love with these cookies and so is John... I have no clue how many I've made for him to date... but I make a batch every weekend. Yeah that's right, I know how to treat my man :) Onto the recipe!Protein Poose Cookies!
recipe by me, stephchows AKA poose
ingredients
1 cup King Arthur whole wheat flour
1/2 cup whey based chocolate protein powder
1 cup Quaker oats (not the quick cook kind)
1 tsp baking soda
2 Tbs Splenda sugar blend (or 1/4 cup white sugar)
1 package (7 ounces) Gerber Prunes with Apples baby food (NOT plums and apples) (contains 2 – 3.5oz containers)
3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 large eggs
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (or dark chocolate chips!)
.25 cup walnuts (optional)
pam cooking spray
instructions
preheat oven to 350
In a small bowl whisk together flour, oats, protein powder and baking soda. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts. Set aside.
In a large bowl stir together splenda sugar blend, applesauce, and prunes with apples containers.
Beat in egg.
Stir in vanilla. (if you want add a little more, mom always said a little extra vanilla never hurt anyone!)
Gradually stir flour mixture into wet mixture. Adding 1/2 cup at a time and stirring until incorporated.
Drop tablespoon fulls onto a silicon baking pad on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 15 minutes or until browned and cooked through. Will vary with oven used.
Serve warm or for a summer treat transfer into the freezer and eat frozen a few hours later!
(to make these even healthier, take out some of the chocolate chips and sub in dried fruit and nuts - delicious)
awww - you are SO good to him! :D
ReplyDeleteThese sound very yummy!
ReplyDeleteThese look great. Happy baking, Frank @ KAF baker/blogger.
ReplyDeleteLove the looks of this recipe, Steph! Silly question ... where do you find the chocolate protein powder? A health food store???
ReplyDeleteDiva not a silly Q at all!! This is the kind John and I use for making protein shakes, and what I use in this recipe
ReplyDeletehttp://eas.com/Products/EAS-100-Percent-Whey-Protein-Powder-Chocolate
We buy it in a 5 lb bag at BJ's...
If you are looking for smaller bags, I know vitamin shops and health food stores carry them. Actually you can even get it in the natures market section of our local grocery store here, Wegmans. I was just there today and noticed they have a ton of varieties of whey protein powders (in small packages). They can be pricey, but a good one with stats similar to the link I have above is a good bet (120 calories in a scoop, 2g fat, 1g sugar, 23g protein), plus they make tasty milk shakes (just blend them up with some skim milk)! John drinks a shake a day, so we go through the stuff fast, but most people probably don't want 5 lbs of the stuff sitting around :)
These look healthy and decadent all at the same time!! Your good.
ReplyDeleteOh these sound great- A lesser evil sort of sweet! With some soy protein and egg replacer, I'm sure I would love them too. :)
ReplyDeleteThey look so good and I love how I now know about a new type of cookie :)
ReplyDeleteHealthy cookies, sounds good to me! Interesting that they contain baby food, I would have never thought of that.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for that link and the info, Steph. You're right, I probably don't need a 5 lb. bag of it ... but I'd like to try it so I'll be keeping my eyes open as I shop around. Sounds both versatile and yummy.
ReplyDeleteBaby food is a great butter substitute. It's pure fruit, no added sugars, colors, anything, you could make your own fruit puree's but I go the baby food route to save time :)
ReplyDeleteooh! just emailed these to myself. We've got a table in a flea market tomorrow and my plan was to make vegan and sugar-free cookies. These can be my sugar-free ones (i'll try sucanat instead of the sugar).
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Baby food is a great butter substitute. It's pure fruit, no added sugars, colors, anything, you could make your own fruit puree's but I go the baby food route to save time :)
ReplyDeleteHealthy cookies, sounds good to me! Interesting that they contain baby food, I would have never thought of that.
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