If you’ve been here before, you might already know my love for protein truffles (see: lemon coconut truffles and peanut butter cup truffles). But this time, I’ve stumbled on my FAVORITE truffle recipe so far. These little puppies taste just.like.cookie.dough. For real. The texture is right on, the flavor is perfect… I need to hide these or I’ll eat them all. It’s basically the solution to this problem:
Either way, be warned that these are small but addictive. Thankfully, they’re low carb, low sugar, only 73 calories, and no-bake recipe which means you can replenish your supply as often as you want. You know, like every day. What, I gave them… to friends or something. A dog ate them, maybe. Fine, it was me.
Ingredients
- 2 scoops low carb and low sugar vanilla protein powder
- 1 cup almond meal/flour
- 1/2 cup nut butter (I used almond butter)
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (I used sugar free)
- 2 tbsp sugar free chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place protein powder and almond meal in a medium-size bowl and mix.
- Add in nut butter and maple syrup and mix again. This will take a little elbow grease, but the batter texture should turn out just like cookie dough.
- Add in chocolate chips and mix again.
- Using a teaspoon or cookie scoop, scoop out a small amount of dough into your palms and roll into 18-20 balls.
- Enjoy right away or refrigerate and eat chilled (my preference!)
Macros for 1 truffle (1/19th of the batch):
73 calories | 5.4g fat | 1g net carbs | 0.6g sugar | 3.6g protein
Catherine Clark is a Chicago native sharing noteworthy things she sees and attempts to make in the world. She's a geek, cat lady, designer and editor by day, and noob chef by night.
Seriously, your photography is going through some sort of glorious puberty where it goes from snapshots of basil to impeccably styled nom-worthy food porn! Loving it.
Haha thanks!! You’ve gotta have a hobby I guess, right? 😉
Hi! What brand of sugar free syrup do you use? thank you for the recipe. 🙂
Great question! I used Cary’s sugar free syrup
I love simple recipes like this! I also love sticking my protein powder anywhere I can haha!
Have you tried Walden Farms sugar-free pancake syrup? It tastes very close to real maple syrup. I’ve never tried Cary’s, so I’m wondering 🙂
YES! I discovered it after writing this! I absolutely love it. I don’t everything they make, but the syrup is a winner. They’re blueberry syrup rocks, too. 🙂