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Cosmic brownie protein bites

Name: Cosmic brownie protein bites
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 3/4 cup whole grain oat flour; 2 scoops whey protein, chocolate; 1/4 cup cocoa powder; 1/2 cup peanut butter; 3 tbsp maple syrup; 3 tbsp 2% milk; 40 g dark chocolate 60-69%, melted, to drizzle

No-bake chocolate bites that taste like the lunchbox brownie they're named after, built on oat flour, cocoa and protein powder. Rolled, chilled, done in fifteen minutes — and dense enough that two is genuinely a portion.

Time: 15 min (15 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 219 kcal
Protein: 10 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

3/4 cup whole grain oat flour80 g
2 scoops whey protein, chocolate60 g
1/4 cup cocoa powder25 g
1/2 cup peanut butter120 g
3 tbsp maple syrup60 g
3 tbsp 2% milk40 g
40 g dark chocolate 60-69%, melted, to drizzle40 g

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Steps

Stir the oat flour, protein powder and cocoa together in a bowl.
Add the peanut butter and maple syrup and work it in — it will look far too dry at first. Add the milk a spoonful at a time until it holds when squeezed.
Roll into 16 balls and set them on a lined tray.
Drizzle over the melted chocolate and chill 20 minutes to set. They keep a week in the fridge, or freeze.

Mine are crumbly.

Different protein powders drink wildly different amounts of liquid — whey isolate is thirstier than a blend. Keep adding milk a teaspoon at a time; the dough should feel like marzipan, not sand.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

18% of kcal

18% water

16 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1750 kcal goes into the pot, 425 g of ingredients comes out as ~425 g of food → 412 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 412
Protein: (18%); 20 g
Fat: (42%); 20 g
Carbohydrates: (40%); 42 g
of which sugar: 15 g
Fiber: 7 g
Sodium: 123 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.