No-Bake Chocolate Banana Protein Brownies

No-Bake Chocolate Banana Protein Brownies

This is my first attempt at cooking (if you can even call it that) with casein. And honestly, this couldn't have turned out better. I made these brownies in under 10min and they are seriously chocolatey! Of course, a lot of that awesome flavor is due to the chocolate cream cheese icing that I put on top. But even with all that [delicious] icing, there's only 1g of fat per brownie. And each one of them is absolutely packed with protein!


The secret about this recipe is that I had a little help. It was strongly inspired by [damn near stolen from] ProteinPow.com's Lazy No Bake Dark Chocolate Protein Cake. And why not? If you are looking for inspiration then why not look to the best?  And in my book, when you are talking about baking with protein, they don't get any better than Anna Sward.

I added my own twists to it and [I think] I made it better. If nothing else, the chocolate cream cheese frosting is my own creation. Although I don't know if I can really call a 3-ingredient recipe my own creation. But whatever, it's f*cking delicious!

Ingredients

Brownies

• 2 Very Ripe Bananas (aprox. 244g)
• 4scoops Casein Protein Powder - Chocolate
• 42g Honey
• 2tbsp Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa Powder
• 2tbsp PB2
• 1tpsb Coconut Flour
• 3oz Chobani Vanilla Fat Free Greek Yogurt

Frosting

• 8oz Philadelphia Fat Free Cream Cheese
• 40g (or 1/2 cup)  Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa Powder
• 105g Agave Nectar

Directions

1.  Mix all the brownie ingredients together in a bowl until well integrated into a nice flourless cake kind of consistency.
2. Press the batter into a nonstick rectangular cake (or bread) pan.
3. Cool in the refrigerator for one hour.
4. While the brownie batter is cooling, whisk all the ingredients for the frosting together in another bowl.
5. After the brownie batter has cooled, remove it from the refrigerator and take it out of the pan.
6. Apply the frosting generously to to the top of the cooled brownie batter.
7. Cut into 8 equal pieces.
8. Enjoy!

Lazy No-Bake Dark Chocolate Protein Cake

Posted by Clayton Long