Give me your sweet protein bar/flapjack/snack recipes!

[Avenged7Fold]

I am on the lookout for protein snack recipes!

Every once in a while i am caught short at work or after some exercise and feel the need to have a sweet snack that keeps me sated for a while. Some times i would pop to the gym downstairs or stop by a petrol station and buy a protein flapjack/bar or the like. Unfortunately like most snack bars on the shelf, they are normally chewy, dry, full of sugar and near unpalatable. Adding to this, they are also usually overpriced.

Surely some of you out there have recipes to put the shelf bars to shame!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Flaevius]

If you're not looking purely for a gym-style/'healthy' bar, my orange and ginger flapjacks have been going down a storm at work - on my 3rd batch in the last 2 weeks.

Recipe:

230g porridge oats
115g butter
115g caster sugar (or muscovado, but I prefer using this for other recipes)
2-3 tablespoons of golden syrup
Zest of two oranges
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
Candied orange peel
Icing sugar
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Greaseproof paper

1. Gently heat the butter and caster sugar until melted.
2. Stir in the golden syrup, add ginger, cinnamon and orange zest.
3. Stir in the oats until covered - I'd usually do half a bowl first, then the remainder.
4. Serve into dish of choice - I use a rectangular casserole dish - and spread evenly and flatten. Line the dish with greaseproof paper first, that's a must.
5. 15mins on 180 degrees, then check. I usually give it an extra 5 mins to brown further.
6. Remove from oven and leave to cool thoroughly. When it's half cool and starting to solidify, use a pizza cutter/sharp knife to incise the individual flapjacks. Makes them easier to cut later.
7. Also add the candied orange peel to your individual slices whilst still warm, so it adheres to the oats.
8. Once fully cooled, little bit of icing sugar to drizzle over the top. Leave to harden.

I get 12 bars from the above.

They are sweet but have a warming, almost Christmassy feel. Could easily tone down on the icing sugar to remove some of the sweetness, if too much. Not the best image as this was an earlier batch where I didn't have any greaseproof paper and they ended up misshapen when removing from the casserole dish and lack finesse, but an example:



Also make lemon flapjacks to the same recipe above, substituting the orange zest for one zested lemon, using muscovado rather than caster sugar, and removing the cinnamon and using slightly less golden syrup. They are fresher, less sweet - again, easily adapted to taste.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Thanks but am looking for healthy treats i can have regularly and that help me hit my nutritional goals. Those do look delicious though, will give them a go closer to Christmas when i feel less guilty about smashing through half a dozen in one go,