Healthy Brookie Bars
These healthier brookie bars are gluten free, dairy free, lower sugar, and higher protein! A delicious and nutritious treat? You bet! The perfect combo of brownies and chocolate chip cookies for when you can't decide between them.
Servings 8 slices
Ingredients
Base Batter
- 1 cup Tigernut flour or almond
- ¼ cup 1:1 gluten free flour
- ¼ cup vegan protein powder See notes above about what proteins work
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup applesauce
- ¼ cup yogurt I used Oatly vegan yogurt, but Greek would work too!
Brownie layer
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoon milk of choice
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- ¼ cup chocolate chips or more!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Sift all dry ingredients together for base batter (flours, protein, baking powder, salt) and set aside.
- Beat all wet ingredients for base better together until smooth (egg, maple syrup, applesauce, yogurt).
- Add dry ingredients to wet and stir to combine (or mix on low with paddle attachment until combined).
- Separate half the batter into another bowl and mix in the brownie layer ingredients except for the chocolate chips.
- Divide the chocolate chips between the two bowls and fold into each layer.
- Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and spread the brownie layer on the bottom. Then spread the cookie dough layer on top.
- Bake for 35-40 min until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 min in the loaf pan then remove to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- Try not to eat it all in one night!