Chocolate-chip & Coconut Protein Easter Muffins

By 180 Nutrition

The beauty of these healthy high protein muffins is you can eat them straight up or freeze them to store for more than a day or two. Maybe you can snack on one or two of these instead of having Easter Eggs with your breakfast, lunch and dinner over the weekend!

Baking time 20min

Makes 6 generous muffins

Ingredients

• 1 cup hazelnut meal
• 1/2 cup coconut flakes
• 1 cup 180 chocolate protein powder
• 2 squares of Lindt 70%-90% chocolate squares (optional)
• 1 mashed banana
• 1/2 mashed pear
• 3 egg yolks
• 2 tsp sparkling water
• 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
• 3 egg whites whipped into hard peaks

1. Mix all these dry ingredients together :-

• 1 cup hazelnut meal
• 1/2 cup coconut flakes
• 1 cup 180 chocolate protein powder
• Break the chocolate into small pieces

2. Mix all these wet ingredients together :-

• 1 mashed banana
• 1/2 mashed pear
• 3 egg yolks
• 2 tsp sparkling water
• 1/4 tsp vanilla essence

3. Mix the wet into the dry ingredients

Then gently fold with a silver spoon the beaten egg whites (the silver helps keep the bubbles of air in the egg whites and fold gently together).

Then pop into a muffin tray – This should make 6 generous high protein healthy muffins.

Bake for 20 min at 180 degrees.

Recipe by Caroline Howe.

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