Pumpkin Cream Cheese Protein Cakes
 
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Moist and warm pumpkin protein cakes filled with a decadent cream cheese filling make for the perfect sinfully delicious and healthy fall treat.
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Serves: 6 protein cakes
Ingredients
  • Pumpkin Cake
  • 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
  • 2 scoops Ascent vanilla whey protein powder
  • ½ cup Truvia baking blend (stevia + sugar mixture)*
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ tbsp. Baking powder
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin purée
  • ½ cup milk (I used unsweetened almond)
  • 2 whole eggs
  • ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
  • ½ tbsp. Vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp. Dark molasses (optional but delicious)
  • Cream cheese filling
  • 8 oz reduced fat cream cheese, softened
  • 1 tbsp. Truvia (or 2 tbsp. Regular granulated sugar)
  • ½ tsp. Vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Add flour, protein powder, sweetener, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder to a large bowl. Mix.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together pumpkin puree, milk, eggs, melted coconut oil, vanilla extract and molasses.
  4. Combine wet and dry ingredients. Gently stir together until a smooth batter forms.
  5. Mix all cream cheese filling ingredients in a bowl.
  6. Spray either a jumbo muffin pan (or pumpkin cake pan seen in the pictures above) with nonstick spray. Spoon pumpkin cake batter into each spot until about ⅓ full.
  7. Add about 1½ to 2 tbsp. of cream cheese filling to each. Cover with remaining batter.
  8. Bake for 25 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean.
  9. Check at 20 minutes to make sure you don’t over bake since cooking times can vary from oven to oven.
  10. Enjoy!
Notes
*Can substitute for ¾ cup regular granulated white sugar, or ¼ cup splenda/sugar free sweetener and ⅓ cup granulated white sugar.
**If you don’t have a jumbo muffin pan or the pumpkin cake pan like I had, you can use a standard 12 spot muffin tin. Just adjust amounts to evenly divide it into 12 instead of 6, and bake slightly less time since they are smaller.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 protein cake Calories: 360 Fat: 18 Carbohydrates: 37 Sugar: 12 Fiber: 4 Protein: 16
Recipe by MacroChef at https://www.macro-chef.com/pumpkin/pumpkin-cream-cheese-protein-cakes/