Coconut Collagen Cookies & Muffins

One of the things y’all told me you wanted to see more of on BHC this year was healthy snack ideas/healthy recipes.  This post is an easy recipe that can be either a cookie or a muffin…I tried making it a cookie first, and it was delicious, but the consistency and texture was more muffin-like, so the next batch I made into muffins.  It works either way.  The recipe is made with Vital Proteins collagen creamer in the coconut flavor.  This is actually a non-dairy collagen creamer for your coffee, but it is derived from coconut milk so I figured, why not give it a try in baked goods?

Here’s the recipe:

• 1 cup almond or coconut flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp honey
• 3 scoops coconut collagen creamer
• 1 tbsp ground flaxseed meal
• 1/2 ground tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/8 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
• 1/4 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  I mixed all the ingredients together at the same time except for the honey. I like to do that last because I think it helps distribute it more evenly.  I made the cookies just on a nonstick tray that I sprayed with a little coconut oil.  Cookies baked for 8 minutes.

Slight differences for the muffins:

For the muffin recipe I added a scoop of vanilla brown rice protein but mostly because I was running low on almond flour.  I don’t think the protein powder is necessary but if you want a little extra protein kick it would do the trick!  I also added one more egg and another scoop of collagen to the muffin recipe too.  I was just trying to make a few more than the cookies, and the muffins are bigger so just increased the recipe a bit like that.  Also, the muffins baked a touch longer at 10 minutes.  I am not master chef as you can see, but both came out great!

Topped the muffins with a few coconut flakes 🙂

Let me know if you try it!  These are great to make on Sunday and have as breakfasts on the go, snacks, or dessert!

xo,

Bess