Category: snacks

🍫 Maple Cottage Cheese Muffins – Moist, Naturally Sweet, and Totally Crave-Worthy! 🍁🧁

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If you’re looking for a healthier muffin recipe that’s still soft, sweet, and loaded with chocolatey goodness… this is it.These Maple Cottage Cheese Muffins are the perfect blend of rich flavor and wholesome ingredients—great for breakfast, snacks, or even dessert.

The secret? Cottage cheese adds protein + moisture without the heaviness. Paired with pure maple syrup, vanilla, and a hint of coconut oil, these muffins are naturally sweet and perfectly fluffy.

📝 Ingredients You’ll Need:

🍽️ Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F and line a muffin tin with paper liners or spray with non-stick spray.
  2. In a blender, combine cottage cheese, maple syrup, vanilla, applesauce, coconut oil, and eggs. Blend until smooth.
  3. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
  4. Pour the blended mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
  5. Fold in the chocolate chips.
  6. Divide batter evenly into muffin cups and bake for 25–30 minutes, until golden and a toothpick comes out clean.
  7. Let cool for a few minutes… then devour warm or store for a perfect grab-and-go snack!

💡 Tips & Variations:

  • Want a richer flavor? Add a dash of cinnamon or nutmeg.
  • Make them dairy-free with plant-based cottage cheese and chocolate chips.
  • Store in an airtight container for up to 4 days or freeze for later!

❤️ Why We Love These Muffins:

✔️ Naturally sweetened with maple syrup

✔️ Protein-packed thanks to cottage cheese

✔️ Kid-approved + freezer-friendly

✔️ Fluffy, moist, and full of chocolatey goodness!

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This recipe proves that better-for-you baking can still taste like a treat. 🧁✨

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Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Protein Cookies

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Ingredients:

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  1. Mix oats, oat flour, protein powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
  2. In another bowl, whisk applesauce, egg, maple syrup/honey, coconut oil/almond butter, and vanilla.
  3. Combine wet and dry ingredients. Fold in raisins.
  4. Scoop dough into balls, flatten, and bake for 8-10 minutes.

Makes 8 deliciously moist, healthy Oatmeal Raisin cookies without the seed oils, or fillers. A true feel good, guilt free treat! I’m telling you that these are just straight fire. Thank you Alex for coming up with the recipe for this one!

Nutrition information;

  • Calories 146
  • Fat 8.1 g
  • Carbs 14.1 g
  • Protein 6.1 g

The information above is with utilizing almond flour, maples syrup, and coconut oil.

Crunchy Granola Clusters

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups of old fashioned oats
  • 1/3 cup of nut butter: almond, cashew, or peanut butter
  • 1/3 cup of maple syrup (can sub honey)
  • 2 1/2 tbsp melted coconut oil
  • 1/3 cup of chopped nuts: peanut and/or cashew
  • 2 tbsp of coconut sugar
  • 2 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp of ground ginger powder
  • 1/8 tsp of ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp of vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt

Instructions

Preheat over to 300 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a medium bow, combine the coconut oil, vanilla, maple syrup and nut butter. Mix well. Stir in remaining ingredients. Spread mixture onto parchment paper. Do your best to have the granola a thin, even layer, avoiding holes or gaps.

Bake for 22-28 minutes, until golden brown, turning halfway through.

Remove from oven. Allow to fully cool, approve 45 minutes. This will allow the granola to fully firm up. Once firm break up, store in airtight container or ziplock bag.