Protein Coconut Macaroon

What's the best thing you can do on a december afternoon, except being a couch-potatoe watching television...? Exactly, smashing a fast and healthy baking session for the festive days.

I think that coconut macaroons are quite christmasy, but unfortunately the original ones are way too unhealthy for us as we want to stay fit and look sexy as a fox. So I changed the recipe to a healthier version. This is definitely one of the easiest and fastest recipes I've ever shared with you. 

All you'll need

Beaten egg-white

dough-blobs

form little balls

that's how they look when they're ready

Ingredients: 

1. 100gr shredded coconuts
2. 2 egg-whites
3. sweetener (to taste, I didn't use sweetener)

Directions:

• Beat the egg-white until stiff
• Add your shredded coconuts to your egg-white in a bowl
• If you want your macaroons to be sweeter, add your sweetener
• Mix until you get small dough-blobs
• Take a spoon to form little balls and place them on your baking tray. (Feel free to do the same thing with your hands if this is easier for you)
• Bake for approximately 10-12 minutes at 175°c until they get a golden layer

You see...you don't need a lot of ingredients to create a healthy but festive pastry. So while other people are serving those fatty christmasy cookies and cakes, serve those light and easy digestible protein coconut macaroons and I reassure you that your people will love them and ask how you made them. 

Chocolate Power Cookies

Finally, after a long time , I had some spare time to pursue another little 'hobby' of mien: baking. 

Since I was little I always helped my mum when she was baking. Okay, I have to admit that most of the time it was because I always could have some dough afterwards hehe. But I always loved to help her bake and when I grew older I started baking for my family, and for my friends once in a while. 

I know that I am not the best baker in the world, but still I always get compliments for my cakes and cookies. Well, that's mostly when I have baked something, let's say, not so healthy haha. Because now that I changed to the healthy side of life, I usually bake more healthy stuff. And that's when people start criticizing because they compare the unhealthy version's taste with the healthy one, which doesn't turn out all right every time. However, if it doesn't taste good, it's not my fault , it's the recipe's fault... 

Enough talk now. This time I made some Chocolate Power Cookies, that work well as a pre.workout snack or as a mid-day snack when you feel hungry and the need to eat something sweeter or chocolatey.

Ingredients

Feel free to add some spices if you want a stronger taste

Form little balls with a spoon

If you have a stamp, you can make cookie-thalers

et voilà

Ingredients: 

1. 3 bananas
2. 2 cups shredded oats, or oatmeal (the caster it is, the better)
3. 1 tbsp. baking cocoa (make sure it has a high percentage of cocoa)
4. 2 tbsp. organic peanutbutter (preferably 100% without too much added salt)

Directions:

• Cut your bananas into smaller pieces and put them in the microwave for 1min at 800w. (This will make the bananas a little milder which will bring out a smoother dough)
• Add all the ingredients into a bowl and blend everything until smooth
• Blob little dough balls on your baking tray
• Bake them for about 15 min at 175°c until they get a golden/brown color
• Et voilà. 

I know I am a little too early stamping them with a 'Merry Christmas' , but I am so looking forward to december that I couldn't resist trying out my new baking-stamp.