Dark Chocolate Maple Almond Butter Protein Blondies
These PROTEIN BLONDIES are fully-loaded with dark chocolate, almond butter, cinnamon, maple, banana and packed with antioxidants, nutrients, and muscle building protein—NO refined flours and NO butter needed!
Servings Prep Time
16square bars 15minutes
Cook Time
9-12minutes
Servings Prep Time
16square bars 15minutes
Cook Time
9-12minutes
Ingredients
Batter:
Garnish:
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Add dry ingredients to bowl. Mix well. In separate larger bowl, mash banana with fork. Add all other wet ingredients. Mix well. Gradually add dry ingredients to wet ingredients bowl, mixing thoroughly. Fold in dark chocolate chips.
  3. Grease an 8×8 square baking dish with olive oil, or line with parchment paper. Pour batter onto pan. Add more dark chocolate chips on top if desired.
  4. Bake in oven for about 9-12 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted down around the center has no wet batter.
  5. Remove from oven. Let rest for about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, melt dark chocolate bar squares in microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring in between, until melted.
  6. Slice into 16 equal-sized bars. Enjoy immediately! Store in an airtight container in the fridge, best if consumed within 3 days. I recommend warming them up in the microwave to serve again. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes

You can sub in 1/2 cup applesauce instead of a large banana.

-Feel free to use peanut butter instead of almond butter too.

-In a typical oven, this should be ready within that 9-12 minute time frame.  When you shake the pan, there should be no jiggle, the surface should appear to be set, and when you insert a toothpick down near the center, it should come out with no wet batter, but crumbs would be ok.

-If the toothpick down around the middle comes out completely clean and dry—you’ve OVER-baked it!

-Better to slightly underbake, than to overbake!

–Remember, these blondies will continue to bake in the hot pan, even when removed from the oven.  After taking them out of the oven, letting it rest for about 5-10 minutes allows them to cool down, and will give you cleaner slices.

-Store in an airtight container in the fridge, and best if consumed within about 3-4 days.  They taste great warmed up in the microwave!

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