Happy Friday friends!
Due to us still in the middle of moving, we haven’t had too much time to play in the kitchen. Hopefully next week will get back to it as we have missed it. We have majority of our kitchen things packed up during our moves, which has made recipe development a little challenging.
But do not worry we have a lot of great recipes in our heads that we just cannot wait to start experimenting with, and of course share them with you guys!
Speaking of a new recipe today, we have a new flavor of our vegan protein muffin recipe. It combines two of our all time favorite flavorings – mint and chocolate.
As you can tell we love our mint flavor with chocolate. in our minds you can never go wrong.
We have a few more flavor ideas coming your way with these protein muffins (both vegan and non-vegan). These muffins are becoming a quick favorite thing for us to make lately. One, they are easy to make, and two they are a great way to get some protein in without it being in a smoothie.
Today it is all about our mint chocolate chip vegan protein muffin recipe. This recipe is gluten free and grain free (depending on what protein powder you use).
We made this recipe vegan again because we wanted to make sure our recipe would come out a second time. And to our knowledge it did! But this recipe seemed a little bit more ‘moist’ then the original vegan protein muffin recipe. Not really sure why as we did the exact same thing just added in some flavorings. But anyways, it still tasted AMAZING!
Perfect as our pre-workout fuel!
pure2raw recipe: mint chocolate chip protein muffin (vegan, dairy free, soy free, gluten free, low in sugar)
makes 1 large muffin (baked in a ramekin or large muffin pan)
bakes- 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes or so
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup vanilla flavored brown rice protein powder
- 1/4 cup flax meal
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon liquid stevia
- 5-6 drops of liquid chlorophyll (for the green color) optional
- 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
- 1 tablespoon chocolate chips (we use Enjoy Life Chocolate chips)
- 5 tablespoons water
Directions:
Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.
Place protein powder and flax meal into a bowl. Next add in your baking soda and baking powder and stevia. Begin to stir. (if you do not want to use stevia in this recipe, use about 1-2 tablespoons of your favorite sugar). Then add in your drops of chlorophyll (again for a green color) and chocolate chips. Continue to stir your thick muffin batter.
Next add in your 5 tablespoons water. You can use a non-dairy milk alternative if you would like.
**Batter will be REALLY THICK.
Place muffin batter into a lightly coconut oiled pan. Bake for about 20 -22 minutes.
Take out from warm oven let cool slightly and then enjoy.
Have a great Friday!
till next time,
L&M
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I’ve been craving mint chocolate chip! This sounds perfect! I’m with you on not doing much experimenting. I miss it! I hope you two get settled soon!
Lets just discuss how awesome mint and chocolate are together! I have to try this. Breakfast or dessert….works for both! Have a good weekend
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MMmmmmm!!! Recipe sounds amazing! Chocolate and Mint are my favourite combo too. You did leave the mint extract or essential oil out of the recipe though. teheheh
haha ya we just fixed that!
I may just be blind…but how much of the mint flavouring do you use?
Thanks!
no Stephanie we forget it, just updated recipe! we did 1/2 tsp
Hi Michelle and Lori! What are your guys thoughts about heating flax meal? Wouldn’t it oxidize it greatly? Not that I’m ‘that’ concerned, but was just wondering what your thoughts were
Stephanie we never thought about that, we really have no idea. sorry we cannot give more info on this.
mmm another great recipe. good job keeping up with recipes, photos and blogging through all the craziness that is your lives right now! I know next week it’ll be hard for me as I’m graduating and moving out too, so we’ll see how that goes!
katie @KatieDid recently posted..Multivitamin Meatballs
Katie, good luck with your moving next week!
Mint chocolate is one of my hubby’s favorite flavors. These look awesome + so easy too. Hope you get to your kitchen experiments soon
Heather @ Fit Mama Real Food recently posted..my pregnancy: week 37
This is such a great idea! I’d like to try making a raw one with sprouted flours and nuts/seeds. But I’ll definitely give this on a try too!
Ahh I LOVE the idea of a mint choc chip flavoured protein muffin! Like your favourite ice cream flavour and your favourite protein muffin all rolled into one – ie heaven. Thanks girls!
Anna @ The Guiltless Life recently posted..Naturally Sweetened Chocolate Bundt Cake
Mint-choc–you know that always gets me too. Looks so good. Unfortunately, I’ve had to face that I need to give up chocolate–should have given it up weeks ago, promised to do so, but it’s about the only thing that’s sounded good lately…
love
Ela
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I seriously was just thinking of mint chocolate chip ice cream today, so this is a perfect recipe! Its one of my top favourite flavour combinations! It looks delicious.
Lisa recently posted..Thursday Things
mint+cocoa is my favorite thing dessert wise!
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These are awesome! I made the vegan original version last night and it was so good I was planning on making one tonight. Honestly, I was really surprised at how good it tasted. Like vanilla cake. Perhaps tonight will be mint chip?!
awesome Meredith!! enjoy
Yum – anything with melty chocolate chips is a winner
I adjusted your non-veg version w/ flax so I’m happy to see this one I can try too. I made them in the dehydrator to keep it raw…worked well for me! I’m now slightly addicted to having a warm muffin waiting for me when i wake up in the morning. And my apartment smells soooo good! Happy weekend… (and thanks for all the 80/10/10 info – just caught up on the video post – love that you guys try new things all the time and share so much!)
Carrie good to know it works in the dehydrator!!!
YAY! A vegan protein muffin recipe! Can’t wait to try – looks amazing!
Heather @ For the Love of Kale recently posted..Tone It Up Meet Up and Dinner at Pure Food & Wine
Oh yum, amazing flavor combo, these sound divine! Thanks!
love this recipe, thanks so much!!!!!!!!!
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Hi ladies, I tried making theis last night and it was incredibly yummy. Thanks for the recipe, it’s quite ingenious! I never would have thought t make this with protein powder. I’m going to try making a lemon poppyseed version tonight.
Btw, I’ve been following some of your skin care experiments. Wondering if you’ve tried enemas and colonics? I found enemas cleared up my skin a lot, and would eventually like to try colonics as well.
Stephanie, glad you enjoyed the recipe!! and yes two years ago we did a lot of colonics, but when we moved we have not found one in our area. we do try to do enemas at home, but do not always have the time. glad it is working for you!!!
These look delicious and the chlorophyll is such a good trick for avoiding those pesky dyes. So glad I found your blog!
Oh yummers! Love mint and chocolate too. Will have to try these. Are they dense? or fluffy from baking powder?
Heathy recently posted..Raw Lemon Berry Swirl Cheesecake
Heathy they are more dense! not cake like.