ello lovelies! We all know I love a healthy snack so today I’ve got a super quick and easy recipe for making your own blueberry protein bars in a food processor. If you don’t have a food processor, get one. I had to replace my blender this year and went with a food processor instead. It was an excellent life decision, I use it every day and I’m finally able to make protein snacks in my own kitchen. I’ve been doing a bit of research on different homemade protein bar recipes and I really struggle to find good ones that have ingredients that are available in Australia. I found this recipe a few weeks ago and I’ve been dying to try it. I replaced a few of the ingredients and messed around with quantities and this is what I came up with.
- 70 grams of dried blueberries
- 70 grams of shredded coconut
- 70 grams of vanilla flavoured natural protein powder
- 70 mls unsweetened almond milk
- 100 grams of 75% (or higher) dark cooking chocolate
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla bean paste
- ½ teaspoon of cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons of chia seeds
- Pulse blueberries and coconut in a food processor until combined.
- Add protein powder, chia seeds, cinnamon and vanilla bean paste and pulse a few times.
- Add almond milk and process until the mixture starts to stick together.
- You should now have a ball of mixture. Divide evenly into 8 portions and fashion each portion into a small square bar. (I just did this using a knife and my hands).
- Coat with melted dark chocolate (I used this tempering technique from the Cadbury website and it worked a treat - left the coating looking super shiny!) and leave to set in the fridge on baking paper. (Seriously use baking paper. Trust me.)
Each bar is has about 160 calories so it’s a great little afternoon snack with a cup of tea, although it’s a little high on calories if you been sitting on your butt all day so best to save this treat for a exercise day. I also decided to get all professional and properly coat them with tempered chocolate and it was so worth it. The chocolate goes crispy and glossy like on fancy treats. I’m ridiculously proud of how smooth these look. Mr Smaggle said they taste like healthy blueberry bounty bars. I suspect I’m going to get lots of requests for these.
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Would you make your own protein bars? Or are you not terribly bothered by the idea?
15 Comments
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They look fabulously delicious! Going to try them. Also pretty seriously impressed that you have a candy thermometer! Xx
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I totally DO have a candy thermometer! That’s one hell of a grown up acheivement right? I got it to make these caramels. http://smaggle.wpengine.com/2013/12/20/5-little-treat-recipes-that-will-make-you-win-the-christmas-food-wars/
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Oh my goossshhh. They look so goood…
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They actually are just extremely amazing.
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Smags these are phenomenally lovely. I had forgotten that very legit food photography was in your repertoire. Seriously, wow. (Also, I totally just typed foot, instead of food. That would be a whole different thing.)
I can’t wait to find out how they taste!
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Thank you! They’re were really hard to photograph – chocolate always looks weird in photos so I’m glad they turned out okay!
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These looks delicious!
I am lazy so I’ve always tempered my chocolate in the microwave using 15 second increments and it works a treat. Plus, Ina Garten said it was ok, so that’s excuse enough for me 😀-
I just tried that today and it actually worked!
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I’d definitely make my own protein bars-these look really good! I make energy bars for hubby but they’re kind of the opposite concept i.e. lots of calories!
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I do the same thing for Mr Smags… I make all his food really calorie rich because he’s so skinny and I figure the fatter he looks the less fat I’ll look. MATHS.
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I’m going to make these for sure!! I just bought a food dehydrator and have some fresh blueberries to test out in it :).
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Oh let me know how it goes!
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So down for making my own bars, a lot on the market are super lame and taste very, very fake! These look bloody awesome
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Yeah the supermarket ones can get all powdery and gross.
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they look sooo delicious smaggle! … thankyou!
how clever are you tempering chocolate … obviously you like cooking!
mmmm I’m a bit of a lazy cook, but I like healthy and protein so who knows! m:)X
