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PMS-cookie: because sometimes a girl just needs a cookie…

Ingredients for one cookie:
- 1/2 avocado
- 1/4 cup vanilla protein powder
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- 1 to 2 squares of dark chocolate

Mix avocado, protein powder and cocoa in a food processor or using a hand blender. Chop dark chocolate and add to the mix. Bake for only 10-12 min at 180-200 degrees Celsius. (Be careful not to overbake that cookie or it’s going to be too dry.)

The nutrition facts for the cookie are: 457 kcal, 31 g of protein, 27.5 g of carbs, 7.5 g of sugar, 27.5 g of fat, 11.5 g of dietary fiber. If that’s too much for you, you can save 168 kcal, 7 g of sugar and 12 g of fat by omitting the chunks of dark chocolate.

Comparatively, a double chocolate chunk cookie at Starbucks is about the same amount of calories but with 37 grams of sugar and 3 grams of fiber.

Hazelnut Protein Cookies
They’re made of egg whites, protein powder, chocolate and hazelnuts. They’re featured as a guest post on Anna’s Proteinpow blog!www.proteinpow.com/2012/04/hazelnut-protein-cookies-guest-post-by.html 

Estimated nutrition facts for one cookie: 144 kcal, 7.8g protein, 5.7g carbs (2g sugar), 10g fat, 2.1g fiber.

Fig Walnut Protein Cookies
Ingredients (for 12 small cookies):
- 1/2 cup walnuts (50g)
- 3 dried figs cut in small pieces and soaked in 1/2 cup warm water for a few hours
- 1/3 cup casein protein powder

[I used an unflavored casein powder but a flavored casein powder (chocolate for example) would be a great choice. Casein gives the cookie dough an elastic texture. The cookies would be a lot less chewy and a bit dry if you make the recipe with whey protein in place of casein.] 

Directions
Mix all ingredients (including the soaking water from the figs) together in a blender. Form little cookie balls by hand and place them on a non-stick cookie sheet. Bake 15 minutes at 220 degrees Celsius or until cookies look golden brown.

Estimated nutrition facts per cookie: 55 calories, 5 g of protein, 2 g of carbs, 1 g of sugar, 3 g of fat.

Post-workout cookie dough pudding

Ingredients (makes 2 servings): 
- 1/4 cup of flavorless casein protein powder
- 1/4 cup of vanilla whey protein powder
- 1/4 cup chickpeas
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 2 tbsp chocolate chips

Mix 4 first ingredients with a hand blender until the mixture gets really smooth and starts to thicken. Add the chocolate chips and stir. Enjoy right away. 

Estimated nutrition facts for 1 serving: 204 kcal, 25 g of protein, 17 g of carbs, 7 g of sugar, 4 g of fat.

But I couldn’t help myself and I had the whole thing (two servings, 408 kcal) as a post-workout snack after my spinning class today.

Easy Chestnut Chocolate Cookies I made mixing 1 egg, a small package of cooked chestnuts (about 15 chestnuts), 2 small tablespoons of cocoa and 1 teaspoon of sweetener. Very filling!

Chestnuts, in contrast to most other nuts, contain only small quantities of fat and oil and are very high in complex carbohydrates. They have a low glycemic index and are gluten free.

Oil free Protein Carob Chip Cookies found on this blogpost: www.healthfulpursuit.com/2011/08/oil-free-protein-cookies

I made my own carob chip cookies (photo #2) yesterday (with 1 cup of oats, 2 eggs, 1 scoop protein powder and carob chocolate). They look like little malformed monsters compared to the perfect cookies on healthfulpursuit.com :)

Super easy-healthy peanut butter cookies
3 ingredients:
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup protein powder
- 1 apple

Put everything together in a food processor. Make little cookie balls with the cookie dough and cook for 15 to 20 min at 220 degrees Celsius (430 F) or until cookies are slightly brown.