To me, protein cookies are one of the harder recipes to get right. It is so easy to mess up the texture and dry them out when trying to make them with protein powder. However, on these peanut butter chocolate chunk protein cookies I think I nailed it! I will definitely be making these again (since I ate all of them within about a day of making!).

 

Peanut butter is a really good base to use for protein cookies. Well, since I’m obsessed with peanut butter, I’d say they are pretty much a good start to anything! Anyway, peanut butter is one of the main ingredients in these. If you are allergic to peanuts, you can substitute the peanut butter with almond butter or cashew butter.

 

This is the fourth recipe I have made using the new Ascent chocolate peanut butter flavored protein. One of them was this Choc PB protein oatmeal parfait. Another was a batch of delicious Choc PB protein rice krispy treats. They came out with both a chocolate peanut butter whey and casein. I used casein for these cookies since whey can tend to dry out a bit more. If you don’t have chocolate peanut butter casein on hand, you can just use chocolate. Heck, you could even use vanilla and add a bit of cocoa powder for the chocolate flavor!

 

The dough for these peanut butter chocolate chunk protein cookies gets quite thick due to the casein absorbing the liquid. Don’t worry, that is OK! As long as the dough isn’t super dry and crumbly, you are good. Roll it into balls, press down with a fork and top with a few extra chocolate chunks before baking.

 

A quick note about the baking. Be careful not to over-bake them. I’d check them at 5 minutes and not bake longer than 6-7 minutes depending on your oven. They may feel like they are still too soft, but they will firm up once out of the oven and cooling. Of course, I love a good batch of gooey chocolate chunk protein cookies anyway so it never hurts to under-bake a little! Enjoy!