Homemade Protein Bars & Balls with Raw Chocolate Frosting

I've been decorating my bikinis for two evenings. 1200 Swarovski strasses. Today I just needed something else to do. Well, most of the day I've just tried to relax.

 I baked some delicious protein cakes on Monday, but I'll do a post about that later. I received my orders from iHerb and WellBake this week and now I'm so excited about these:

Blueberry muffin & Peanut butter cookie dough flavored proteins.. Omnomnomm..  And Vanilla creme & Dark chocolate-Raspberry liquid stevia.

WellBake 15 piece Chef's Ultimate Gourmet Gift Set

Tomorrow I'm going to do some brownies and some other baked goods with these. Something for the weekend, for ME ;) I already put some bananas flavored with almond essence and vanilla extract to the freezer so that I can do some ice cream on Sunday (when I come home from Helsinki)... Mmmmm... Brownies and some protein cookie dough with ice cream... And some clean pizza!!! Oh, I can't wait. On Saturday after my competition we're going to Cantina West texmex restaurant and I'm definitely going to eat some Fajitas. I loooove texmex food :)

Bananas on their way to the freezer... I put one banana and one tsp of almond essence/vanilla extract into the bag and shaked well. I have no idea if it was a good idea but I hope so :D

But today I made some protein bars. And balls :D I thought that I'll do 3, but I got so excited about these that I did 15. Aren't they cute? :)

I decided to try THIS recipe from Proteinpow.com. And it was soooo fun & easy :) You can play with it a LOT. I did five different versions but I already have few more ideas in my mind that I just have to try...

 

So here they are. First I did the brown ones: Chocolate Coconut Protein Balls. Then I thought that it was so quick and easy that maybe I'll try some other flavor - so I did the light ones: Coconut Pear Vanilla Protein Bars. After that I realized that I have too many ideas for these little things... and decided to do some more. The pink ones are Strawberry-White chocolate & Nuts Protein Bars. Those big balls are Blueberry Protein Balls and green ones are Mint Chocolate Protein Bars. (Yep, I'm not very good with these names, but I think it's not the most important thing...) I definitely have to try these with some banana whey+banana powder and with my new Gaspari Peanut butter cookie dough protein powder+peanut butter. But here are the recipes for these bars & balls:

CHOCOLATE COCONUT PROTEIN BALLS

1,25 dl Self Omninutrition Coconut Chocolate Whey Protein Isolate (sweetened with stevia)
0,5 dl roasted coconut flakes
0,5 dl + 2 tbsp coconut flour
0,5 dl almond milk
1 packet Truvia
I mixed the  ingredients in a bowl with a spoon and thought it was a bit too sticky, so I added the extra 2 tbsp of coconut flour. This whey also has a little funny taste (I think it's the stevia, 'cause the other flavors of Self Whey Isolate that I have don't have this taste...) so I added some Truvia. Maybe it's too much for many but not for me :D

COCONUT PEAR VANILLA PROTEIN BARS

1,25 dl Self Omninutrition Pear Vanilla Whey Protein Isolate

0,5 dl roasted coconut flakes

0,5 dl coconut flour

0,5 dl almond milk

1 tsp tocotrienols powder

1 tsp vanilla extract

STRAWBERRY-WHITE CHOCOLATE & NUTS 

PROTEIN BARS

1,25 dl Fitnessguru Strawberry-White Chocolate Whey Protein

0,5 dl crushed hazelnuts

1 dl almond flour

3 tbsp coconut flour

1 tsp tocotrienols powder

0,5 dl almond milk

BLUEBERRY PROTEIN BALLS

1,25 dl Dymatize Elite XT Blueberry Muffin Protein 

0,5 dl dried dates (I chopped the dates into small pieces)

1 tbsp purple corn powder

1 tbsp coconut flour

0,5 dl almond flour

1 dl organic oat milk

MINT CHOCOLATE PROTEIN BARS

1,25 dl Self Omninutrition Mint Chocolate Whey Protein Isolate

0,5 dl coconut flakes

1 tsp spirulina powder

0,5 dl almond flour

1 tsp tocotrienols powder

0,5 dl organic oat milk

6 tbsp coconut flour (added 1 tbsp at a time until the consistency was nice)

7 drops of Dark Chocolate-Raspberry liquid stevia

You should mix all the dry ingredients first and then add the liquid. If it's too sticky, just add some coconut flour. It's easy :)

I put these into the fridge and made some raw chocolate to coat my bars&balls with it. It's simple to do and you can use it for topping your baked goods - or just put it into the fridge and get some delicious chocolate! You can sweeten it with honey, maple, erythritol, what ever you want. And you can also add some superfoods like goji berries, bee pollen, mesquite, aswagandha powder... But I kept it pretty simple this time:

RAW CHOCOLATE

60 g cacao butter, grated

30 g coconut oil

3 heaped tbsp raw cacao powder

dash of salt

10 drops of Vanilla Creme liquid stevia

2 tsp tocotrienols powder

1 tsp lucuma powder

I melt the cacao butter in a glass bowl (on top of another bowl filled with boiling water), then added the coconut oil and then the rest of the ingredients. That's it. I took my protein bars&balls and drowned them into the chocolate, put them back to the fridge for half an hour and drowned them again. You can see the result below. I love it. And I know they're delicious and filling - my boyfriend couldn't keep his hands away from these :D

 xoxo,
Henna