My name is Jenn, and I'm a 27 year old married and babied chick. In addition to a husband, a seven year old daughter, and a five year old autistic son, I also have four cats, three hermit crabs, two frogs, a few fish, and one snorty little Pug. I work from home doing a variety of writing and even some web design. I love blogging, digital photography and web design.
Since I had gastric bypass in November, I’ve been more obsessed with food than ever. Only now my issue is with getting enough of it in, and the BIG focus is on protein. Protein in large quantities is available in cheese, meat and bean form. So the other night I had the brilliant idea of making chocolate chip protein cookies. I used a low-fat recipe (designed for Weight Watchers participants), and switched out regular sugar and brown sugar in favor of Splenda white sugar and Splenda brown sugar. I then skipped the addition of 1/4th of a cup of cocoa baking powder, and instead used an equivalent amount of chocolate-flavored protein powder.
Big. Freaking. Mistake. I don’t know if it was the Splenda, the chocolate-flavored protein powder or both, but OMFG that cookie dough was vile tasting. It’s still sitting in my fridge, by the way. I haven’t worked up the courage to bake the cookies and then try them.
It’s the protein powder. That stuff makes recipes taste nasty. You’d have been better off making peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, lol. I’ve made dozens of batches of cookies, cakes and other assorted snacks with splenda and splenda brown sugar. I made oatmeal cookies and tried putting protein powder in them.. they were NASTY!
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