Protein Snickerdoodles

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by | Updated: December 4th, 2016

In school, if you snickered, the teacher snarled. Then, you would get a stern talking to about how it’s not polite to gossip or play mean-spirited pranks. Lesson learned. But now you’re grown up enough to snicker the right way – with sugar and spice and everything nice! From the gluten-free oat flour to the cupcake-flavored protein powder, there’s nothing about these snickerdoodle cookies that will get you in trouble.

Snickerdoodles Recipe with Protein

Protein Snickerdoodles

Ingredients

1 ½ cups oat flour
3 scoops vanilla cupcake protein powder
¼ cup honey
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 Tbsp. coconut oil, melted
2 Tbsp. almond milk
1 egg

Coating: coconut sugar and cinnamon

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients, stirring until smooth and well combined.
  3. In a separate bowl, stir together even amounts of coconut sugar and cinnamon.
  4. Roll about 1-2 tablespoons of dough into a ball, drop in cinnamon-sugar mixture and coat completely. Place on baking sheet and flatten ball into a round cookie. Repeat until all dough is used.
  5. Bake about 8 minutes, or until golden.