How to Make Delicious Choculate Peanut Butter High Protein Fudge Bars at Home

by Jeff Behar

Ingredients:

1 cup chocolate whey protein powder 1/4 cup honey, or Stevia 7
oz. of natural peanut butter 1 cup oatmeal rolled oats 1/2 cup
shelled almonds

Equipment needed:

10 pieces of aluminum foil sized 1/2 roll X 6" Freezer or ice
pack blender bowl heavy spatula

Directions:

Blend oatmeal to powder and put in large mixing bowl.

Blend shelled walnuts and almonds to powder and put in bowl.

Add chocolate whey protein powder to bowl and mix ingredients
thoroughly.

Add peanut butter a little at a time, blending between
additions, until the mixture has the texture of cookie dough and
holds its shape when pressed together.

Form a pattie one inch thick with grooves 1/2 inch apart 1/2
inch deep on top.

Pour honey evenly over surface and mix in well. Another healthy
option is to add stevia, a natural herbal sweetener to taste.

Form milky way size and shape blobs of the muck with spatula and
knife or spoon and wipe onto aluminum square.

Put tin to the freezer. Chill for a few hours.

When nicely frozen, remove and cut into bars of desired size.

Comments/Suggestions/Options

Wrap each bar individually in wax paper. I like to wrap a few
then put them into a container or plastic bag which I then put
back into the freezer.

Keep the bars chilled until just before eating, if possible. You
don't need to be overly fastidious about this (i.e. you could
leave one in your bag for an afternoon), but staying cold helps
the bars keep their shape, and keeps them from going bad. I keep
mine in the freezer then grab one out on my way to work and keep
it in the fridge at work. If you want to be able to eat them
immediately after retrieving them from the cooler, you may want
to just refrigerate them instead of freezing.

There are lots of things you can do with the basic recipe to
spruce it up a bit.

The first thing I like to do is add one banana to the mixto make
the texture a little chewier. More than one banana seems to make
it too gooey. Adding any kind of fruit puree or a banana will
give the bars a moister, chewier texture.

You can also try add dry spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg.
Here you can also add nuts or seeds such as pumpkin or sunflower
seeds. Just grind them up and mix in with the oats. Walnuts and
pumpkin seeds will add omega-3s, and Brazil nuts will add
selenium (an antioxidant).

You can also try adding a shot of coconut or vanilla flavoring.
Just remember to add a little extra oats to compensate for the
added liquid.

To figure out the nutritional breakdown (i.e. calories, fat,
protein, carbs), just total up everything you put in, and divide
by the number of bars you made (assuming you made the bars more
or less the same size).

About the author:
Jeff Behar is a senior writer for musclemagfitness.com and
Mybesthealthportal.com where he regularly writes about hot
topics in the areas of health, fitness, disease prevention,
nutrition, bodybuilding, men's health, weight loss, vitamins and
supplements, and anti-aging.