December 19, 2017, 10:43 am | Read time: 2 minutes
Christmas without cookies is a drag. As a fitness enthusiast (you must assume this about me after clicking on this article ? ), you might Google “delicious protein cookies” and end up, oops!, in a joyless forum for muscle building. The recipes revolve around protein powder, supplements, and protein, and after two clicks, you know: This CAN never taste good! You know it! But a true fitness enthusiast like me is, of course, not deterred by this.
It all started so promisingly when skimming the ingredients for the protein cookies! Almond and hemp flour as a wheat flour substitute–whooo, does that actually get you high?!, a minuscule amount of maple syrup as a sugar substitute–ok, cool!, quark as a butter substitute–fortune favors the bold!
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Unaware that with this recipe, I was opening the gates to hell. The dough, a hunter-green sticky-thick mass that, like me after the 50th burpee, would never again lift off the ground. A premonition that would later be confirmed in the mouth. What really took the cake was the sugar-free protein-nut topping, which my colleagues nicknamed “Purgatory Foam.” Not even my improvised extra maple syrup shot changed that.
Let’s put it this way: Toward the end, we had to fight a bit …
If you are still brave enough for this protein-rich cookie experience, I don’t want to withhold the recipe from you. You now know what you should definitely not Google. ? ?
Also interesting: REALLY delicious fitness cookies with matcha can be found here
Protein Cookies (about 40 pieces)
- 100g low-fat quark
- 100g almond flour
- 50g hemp flour
- 15ml maple syrup
- 120ml low-fat milk
- 30g chopped walnuts
- 5 egg whites
- 3 tsp baking powder
Mix quark, baking powder, and flour. Heat milk with syrup in a pot and then combine with the quark mixture. Whip the five egg whites and fold in the chopped nuts.
Shape cookies from the quark dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and top with a layer of the protein-nut mixture. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 180 degrees.