Peanut Butter Chocolate Protein Bars

Seriously, holiday's are torture. Want to know why? Because my good friends at Hershey's have decided it is appropriate to make my very favorite piece of candy into a different shape for every freakin' holiday! On top of that, for some reason when they are shaped differently, they taste 10x as delicious and they normally do, which is pretty dang delicious. 

In case you haven't guessed yet, I have a soft spot for Reese's. The Christmas trees, the eggs, the pumpkins. I love them all. Unfortunately the sugar and the chocolate are not going to do anything for my abs, so I haven't had one in.... a long time. I was in line at the grocery store yesterday and saw a whole display of them, which made me remember this awesome recipe my mom came up with. They're not a peanut butter egg, but people, they're close. 

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Ingredients:

1 cup oat flour

4 egg whites

2 scoops protein powder ( I used vanilla but chocolate would work too)

1/4 cup Stevia

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce

3tbsp unsweetened baking cocoa

4 oz unsweetened almond milk

1/4 cup all natural peanut butter, or 1/3 cup if you're a pb enthusiast like me.

4 tbsp non fat Greek yogurt

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Directions 

1. Add all ingredients in large mixing bowl, and mix. 

2. Place batter in a prepared 8x8 prepared Pyrex dish and bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. 

You should know that B happened to be doing the dishes while I was making these, and I made the mistake of letting him lick the spoon to taste the batter. I set my mixing bowl in the sink and turned around to put them in the oven. When I turned back around he went straight 7 years old on me and was licking the mixing bowl! When I say licking, I mean tongue out, bowl to the mouth licking. Don't worry, I made as many fat kid jokes as I could think of. But...I don't blame him, they're really that good!

Nutritional Info:
16 servings; 1 bar contains:
6g carbs
6g protein
2g fat
73 calories