Coconut Protein Bites

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Montana from Pretty Lil Mudder, Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Emily from Whatever Floats Your Oats, and Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl to create awesome healthy recipes each week! Today’s theme = Dessert Heaven! Make sure you hop around to check out all the amazing recipes in this link up and feel free to add your recipes as well!

I actually have two food linkups going today (such is my love for food…), so check out my Everything but the Kitchen Sink Rice Cake Bars for the August Recipe ReDux! And while I’m sending you elsewhere…

It’s Montana’s birthday today! (Go wish her a happy birthday over at Pretty Lil Mudder! :] )

Back? Alright, let’s carry on!

This simple, 4-ingredient recipe yields about 20 small bars, and they taste like coconut macaroons! (Except they’re actually good for you!) I adapted this recipe from a friend. It’s pretty versatile! You probably add whatever you’d like to it (e.g. nuts, dried fruits, chocolate chips, etc.).

The recipe was actually borne out of desperation during boards-studying because my friend was somewhat broke and hell-bent on studying, so she hadn’t visited a grocery store in weeks. (We led pretty sad lives, but had I’d known that she’d been in that situation, I would’ve shared my food with her. :[ ). In any case she did happen to have shredded coconut flakes, flour, some milk, and protein powder left in her kitchen, so she got creative, and here we are today. :O

This was the first time I tried making this, so there was a lot of experimentation involved with the amounts of ingredients used. I probably should have added more milk than I did (I used probably somewhere in around 1/6 of a cup), because mine didn’t stick together as much and they were a little crumbly. That being said, however, I can use the more crumbly pieces to put in yogurt or to throw in my oatmeal. Win-win! That’s my excuse for why they’re not as pretty as they could be, but trust me–they’re still delicious. :D

Coconut Protein Bites

If you divide them into 20 pieces, each serving is 34 calories, 3g CHO’s, 2g fat, 2g protein, 38mg sodium, 1g fiber!

Ingredients:

• 6 oz. (1 bag) unsweetened, shredded coconut
• 1/3 cup almond meal
• ~1/4 cup chocolate coconut milk (or your choice of milk)
• 1 scoop MusclePharm Cookies ‘N’ Creme whey protein powder

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Combine coconut, almond meal and protein powder into a bowl. Mix until combined.
3. Add just enough milk to make the “dough” sticky. Mix until well combined.
4. Flatten onto a baking pan/dish and bake for ~15-20 minutes, or until browned at the edges.

Before adding the milk!

Before I tried cutting em’ into bite-sized pieces…

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• I decided to try my hand at my second blended smoothie, and I think it turned out really well! (It looks so cool, haha. :D )
• I got to be a co-host of the 49th Wine’d Down Wednesdays! :D Come link up with us!
• The ingredient list for these Everything But The Kitchen Sink Rice Cake Bars looks somewhat terrifying, but I promise it’s not as bad as it looks! It’s actually super versatile, and (as the name implies) great for using up leftover ingredients in your pantry!

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Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Next week’s theme is Touchdown (football food)! Hope you’ll join us!)