These BIG protein chocolate chip cookie bars are just 159 calories and 7.4g or protein, and have 1 scoop of protein per cookie bar!
You can easily make more (as seen below) and store this low calorie recipe for chocolate chip bars as great meal prep snacks.
Plus, you can use whatever nut butter you prefer, and your favorite vanilla (or chocolate!) protein powder to make easy protein cookie bars.
With one scoop of protein powder per cookie bar, these protein cookie dough bars pack a lot of healthy protein. But they taste like dessert!
These BIG protein chocolate chip cookie bars are just 159 calories and 7.4g or protein, and have 1 scoop of protein per cookie bar!
Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make low calorie recipe for cookie bars with protein powder.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label, a great plant based protein and more in the sections below.
To make this protein cookie bars recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Protein Chocolate Chip Bars (shopping list!)
- How to Make Chocolate Chip Bars
- Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Protein Cookie Bars
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this healthy recipe for cookie bars to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for the best protein cookie dough bar recipe…
Ingredients in Protein Chocolate Chip Bars
You can use your favorite protein powder to make these cookie bars chocolate chip recipe. We like to make them with a plant based vanilla protein powder, but you can choose our favorite.
If you want to make this chocolate chip protein bars recipe gluten-free make sure to pick gluten-free oatmeal. And it’s easy to make them vegan, all you need is vegan chocolate chips.
Shopping List for Protein Cookie Bars Recipe:
- Old fashioned oatmeal
- Almond, peanut, or cashew butter
- Vanilla protein powder
- Dark chocolate chocolate chips (or semi-sweet)
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie chocolate chip bars with peanut butter you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for these protein cookie dough bars can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make no bake protein cookie bars with chocolate chips…
How to Make Chocolate Chip Bars
You don’t need to bake these easy cookie bars! Just assemble and chill until they are set and you can cut them.
You can also easily double or triple them and make extras for meal prep protein snacks! We’ve included a recipe card below where you can easily double or triple the recipe. And it does all the math for you on the ingredient amounts!
How to Make Chocolate Chip Cooke Bars Recipe:
- Line an 9×9 baking dish with parchment paper (if you crumple it first then smooth out, it’s easier) and set aside.
- In a food processor or high speed blender, add the oatmeal and blend until it’s the consistency of flour.
- To the oat flour, add nut butter, protein powder, and water and blend until smooth.
- Fold in the chocolate chips until well distributed.
- Transfer to the prepared baking dish and press down to evenly distribute.
- Refrigerate for 2-3 hours until firm.
- Remove the protein bars from the fridge, and cut into 10 bars.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best recipe for cookie bars…
Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These easy protein cookie bars with chocolate chips are healthy and yummy… and require no baking!
You can use your favorite protein powder, but see the note below on adding more water as needed. Each protein powder is a little different, and more water may be needed.
HEALTHY Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Equipment
- Parchment paper
- 9×9 baking dish
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oatmeal
- 1/2 cup almond, peanut, or cashew butter
- 10 scoops vanilla protein powder (based off 25g scoops)
- 3/4 cup water (more as needed- see notes)
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chocolate chips
Instructions
- Line an 9×9 baking dish with parchment paper (if you crumple it first then smooth out, it’s easier) and set aside.
- In a food processor or high speed blender, add the oatmeal and blend until it's the consistency of flour.
- To the oat flour, add nut butter, protein powder, and water and blend until smooth.
- Fold in the chocolate chips until well distributed.
- Transfer to the prepared baking dish and press down to evenly distribute.
- Refrigerate for 2-3 hours until firm.
- Remove the protein bars from the fridge, and cut into 10 bars.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Protein Cookie Bars
The nutrition and calories below are based off 1 protein cookie bar, after cutting the above recipe into 10 large squares.
Each protein powder is different, but you can easily click on the link above for protein powder to see their nutrition label. Then compare it to any protein powder you choose to use in it’s place.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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