Choc Protein Muffins

Recipes
Written By Leanna de Groot

Vegan-friendly recipe is oil-free, rich in flavour, high fiber, protein-packed and delicious, but you do you and substitutions are suggested and welcomed.

Ingredient:

  • 1 cup buckwheat flour

  • ½ cup organic cacao powder or organic carob

  • ¼ cup Body Fuel Vanilla Pea protein powder (can substitute with hemp or Vanilla Whey Protein powder)

  • 1 tsp Organic baking powder

  • ¼ tsp Organic baking soda

  • Pinch salt

  • 3 ripe mashed organic bananas

  • 2 tbsp Organic Maple Syrup

  • ¾ cup Water or Oat mylk

  • Handful Organic Cacao Nibs (Omit if using Carob)

Method:

  • Preheat oven to 180 Celsius

  • In a large mixing bowl, sift the buckwheat flour, cacao powder, vegan protein powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir all ingredients together
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  • In a separate mixing bowl, mash 3 bananas with a fork, add maple syrup, mylk, and mix till combined
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  • Add the wet ingredients to the dry and thoroughly mix together
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  • Add the cacao nibs if using and stir through.

  • Line a tray with cupcake holders and add roughly one heaped tbsp per cupcake.

  • Bake in the oven for around 20 minutes or till cooked through.
Transfer to a cooling rack, allow to cool, and enjoy 🧁

Leanna de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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