I've been mistreating my body a bit recently, I've been indulging my other fixation of Chilli's and took the Red Dog Saloon Naga Wing Challenge. I managed to pass the test, got my T-Shirt for eating all of the Naga Wings and enduring the 5 minute burn time, but... My body, understandably, chose to reject the Chilli invasion overnight, resulting in sleep deprivation and some considerable pain. A couple of days after that, I went to a friends BBQ and drank a few more beers than normal so had a bit more pain to endure. As such, and with it being a glorious weekend, I decided I needed to kickstart the body's healthy vibe again and do some protein cooking..
Not that long ago I went along to see Anna Sward, of Protein Pow fame, and took part in one of her Protein Cooking Workshops. We didn't do any banana based cooking on the day, but protein pizza's, brownies and cheesecakes were all pretty amazing and I learnt a lot from taking part - as well as meeting a lot of like-minded (though considerably fitter than me) people.
So.. those two items combined, I trawled though Anna's cookbook and her online recipes and chose her Banana Protein Cupcake recipe, for two main reasons.. One - it's banana (natch) and Two - I had bought some Quark over the last week and wanted to use it today.. here it became the frosting on the cupcakes, which is something I'd never done before and wanted to try for myself.
Not that long ago I went along to see Anna Sward, of Protein Pow fame, and took part in one of her Protein Cooking Workshops. We didn't do any banana based cooking on the day, but protein pizza's, brownies and cheesecakes were all pretty amazing and I learnt a lot from taking part - as well as meeting a lot of like-minded (though considerably fitter than me) people.
So.. those two items combined, I trawled though Anna's cookbook and her online recipes and chose her Banana Protein Cupcake recipe, for two main reasons.. One - it's banana (natch) and Two - I had bought some Quark over the last week and wanted to use it today.. here it became the frosting on the cupcakes, which is something I'd never done before and wanted to try for myself.
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| Banana Protein Cupcakes |
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 3 tbsp of oat flour
- 2 large eggs
- 2 ripe bananas
- 2 tbsps of coconut flour
- 1/2 cup of banana flavoured Whey Protein Powder
Frosting
- 1 pot of Quark (250g)
- 1/4 cup of banana flavoured Whey Protein Powder
Method
- Blend all of the cupcake ingredients together and put into silicone cupcake cases. I think Anna's are bigger than mine, because my ingredients fitted into 8 cases and hers went into 4.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes at 170DegC or when your knife comes out clean when poked into them
- let them cool (important)
- for the frosting, just mix the Quark and the Banana Whey Protein Powder
- put the frosting on top of the cupcakes and sprinkle on some Cinnamon to taste
- eat & enjoy.. it goes particularly well with a banana protein latte ;)
