Only 4 ingredients to make these delicious very strawberry protein cookies, and you can whip them up in just 15 minutes!
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🍓 Ingredients
- Fresh strawberries
- Strawberry whey concentrate protein powder
- Coconut flour
- Baking powder
👩🏼🍳 Instructions
Preheat oven to 325F (163C).
Mash strawberries with a fork or pulse in a food processor a few times.
Add protein powder, coconut flour, and baking powder. Mix well.
Spoon onto parchment-lined cookie sheet as 6 cookies.
Bake about 10 minutes, or just until firm. Don't overbake!
Remove from oven and let cool.
🥥 Substitutions
This recipe works well with whey concentrate. I wouldn't recommend using whey isolate, as the results will likely be dry and rubbery. I also wouldn't recommend using plant protein powders, as they bake very differently from whey.
If you want to use a whey/casein blend like Quest protein powder, you'll likely need more strawberries or other liquid (milk, water) since the casein is more drying than whey.
If you'd like to use a different flour, you'll likely need more than we're using of coconut flour since coconut flour is very drying.
🍑 Variations
The best thing about this recipe is that you can switch up the flavor to be anything you like! Use a different flavor of whey concentrate, and/or use a different mashed fruit. Easy!
🥣 Equipment
You'll need a cookie sheet. I like these Airbake cookie sheets because they keep the bottom of cookies from burning.
I suggest lining the cookie sheet with parchment paper for easy cleanup and to keep the cookies from sticking to the pan (whey cookies have the tendency to stick!).
I also suggest using an oven thermometer so you can see when your oven is actually preheated, and that it is to the right temperature.
Of course, you're also going to need a mixing bowl. I love this mixing bowl set from Target because it is super easy to clean, dries quickly, and the bowls have rubber on the bottom so they don't slide.
And I strongly encourage you to measure ingredients with a kitchen scale instead of volume measurements.
🥶 Storage
I'd store these in the refrigerator in an airtight container if you're not eating them the same day.
⚡️ Top tip
Read the Substitutions section above!
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🥣 Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberries 134g
- ½ cup Strawberry Nutriwhey protein powder 48g
- 2 tablespoons coconut flour 14g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder 2g
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325F (163C).
- Mash strawberries with a fork or pulse in food processor a few times.
- Add protein powder, coconut flour, and baking powder. Mix well.
- Spoon onto parchment-lined cookie sheet as 6 cookies.
- Bake about 10 minutes, or just until firm. Don't overbake!
- Remove from oven and let cool.
- Enjoy! Store in the refrigerator.
Andréa
Hi Sandra,
If you used a different brand of whey protein, the amount of liquid it needs could be be different. In that case you can drain the mashed strawberries to try to remove liquid, or you can add more coconut flour so that it would set as a cookie.
Hope this helps. Thanks for writing in!
Andréa
Sandra
Hi, Andréa, thank you very much for recipe. I tried to do it today. But I got some problems. First, when I mixed everything, the batter was really liquid. Then they looked terrible after baked. So Idk how to solve this. Should I dry mashed strawberries first? Hope could get your reply ASAP. Thanks a lot.
Best wishes
Andréa
Hi Ken,
We don't perform shelf-life testing on blog recipes, so I can't say for sure. These cookies are cake-like, and I think they would stay better under refrigeration. I'm sorry I can't be of more help!
Best,
Andréa
Ken
Hi, may i know the shelf life of these cookies? And is it possible to be stored in room temperature instead of the refrigerator once done?
Anna
That helps a ton, and not just with this recipe. Thank you for the quick reply. I will be making them this afternoon and I can't wait to try them! Thank you!
Andréa
Hi Anna,
Thanks for writing in! The strawberries are measured after washing and trimming, but before mashing. When in doubt, you can always match up the grams. If they are mashed or not, you'll have the same measurement in grams.
In general with recipes, if it says:
"1 cup strawberries, mashed"
that means measure the strawberries, then mashed them. If it says:
"1 cup mashed strawberries"
that means mash the strawberries before you measure them.
Does that help?
Andréa
Anna
These sound amazing! Going to try them today. Unfortunately, I am a TERRIBLE cook (and even worse at baking!) so I have to follow recipes very carefully. Is the cup of strawberries measured before or after they are smashed/pureed? I know ... probably an oversimplification but I need baby steps when it comes to anything other than the dishwasher in my kitchen. :) Thank you!