Clean Treats: Chocolate Coconut Cups and Clean PB Cups

A few things you should know about me: I LOVE Valentine’s Day!  I LOVE baking!  I LOVE fitness!  Overall, I eat clean, but I bake dirty.  This Valentine’s Day I challenged myself to create healthy and delicious desserts, I’m very pleased with the end result.

My inspiration came from the incredible blog Clean Eating Survival Guide, I made a few changes to the recipes and failed to make exact measurements, but I have complete faith you’ll be able to taste test your way to the perfect balance.

Raw Coconut Cups (Clean Mounds Bar)

9 tbsp of unsweetened coconut flakes
1-1/2 tbsp raw honey
3 tbsp coconut oil 
½ cup dark chocolate chips

Mix coconut flakes with raw honey and coconut oil and spread evenly into mini cupcake tin. Melt dark chocolate in double boiler or microwave and pour over the coconut mixture. Freeze for a minimum of 15 minutes, move to fridge before serving.

Protein Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

8 tbsp of natural peanut butter
4 tsp of protein powder – I used chocolate Isopure 
8 stevia packets
1 ½ cup dark chocolate chips
2 tbsp of coconut oil

Mix the peanut butter with the protein powder and stevia and melt in the microwave for 30 seconds.  Stir until smooth.  Prep a cupcake tin with liners, pour peanut butter filling into the bottom third of the cupcake liner.

Melt dark chocolate chips with coconut oil until smooth, pour on top of peanut butter filling.  Place cupcake tin in the freezer for an hour before sharing/consuming all by yourself – watch it, these things are delicious!

Next time:

I make these I would use a mini cupcake tin.

I’ll try creamy peanut butter, I used crunchy natural peanut butter because I’m a texture person (loved it!)

I’ll add more protein powder!

Enjoy!

Q.