Mocha protein bar recipe

Mocha protein bar recipe

By Rachel Howard on 05/29/2017

A delicious high protein bar flavoured with chocolate and coffee

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Yield: 6

Well this is something a little different and it’s not even really a ‘bake’ as the oven isn’t even turned on for these!

I had a little time to kill yesterday afternoon but couldn’t be bothered to go to the shop for any ingredients. So I had a look at what was in the cupboard and then at some recipes that I had previously saved, and this one came up.

I’m not a regular eater of the protein bar as I try to get most of my protein from ‘real’ foods rather than powder, but these looked pretty simple and didn’t have too many ingredients so I thought I’d give them a a go.

They were so easy to make….

Method:

• Mix together all the dry ingredients
• Add chocolate chips (if using). I also sprinkled in some cinnamon.
• Stir in the cooled coffee
• Mix well
• Divide into 6 pieces
• Shape into bars and place in the fridge to cool
• Melt the dark chocolate.
• Dip the bars into the melted chocolate to coat the bottom and sides
• Drizzle the top of the bar with the remaining dark chocolate
• Leave in the fridge to set

It’s as easy as that. And you could add anything you like to tailor these bars to your taste…..dried fruit, nuts, or a mixture of both! Anything that goes well with coffee really.

They are so gooey and delicious. I’m not really one for anything too sweet anymore, but if your have a sweet tooth you could always add a bit of sweetener.

These are great if you need a little something on the go or after the gym and they’ll fill you up for a while too!

I’ll be making some different varieties of these soon. My only comment would be that the coffee I used wasn’t particularly strong so I’ll have to work on making it a bit stronger for these so the taste really comes through.

Each bar contains….

Calories: 186
Protein: 11g
Fat: 7g
Carbohydrates: 15g