Low Carb and only 40 Calorie Pumpkin Protein Cookies
I finally made the pumpkin protein cookies I’ve been talking about. I’m surprised at the lack of pumpkin cans I’ve purchased this fall. Last year at this time, I found myself buying at least one can of pumpkin a day. I was making pumpkin bars, pumpkin oatmeal, pumpkin brownies, pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin yogurt, pumpkin protein shakes, pumpkin quinoa, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin muffins, crustless pumpkin pies, pumpkin popcorn, pumpkin oat flats, pumpkin cake, pumpkin bread, pumpkin dip, and more pumpkin!
That’s a lot of pumpkin!
I plan on stepping up my pumpkin game next month, especially since it’s October!
This morning was the start of my pumpkin phase. I made pumpkin protein cookies to go with my breakfast.
Ingredients: *1/4 cup ground flax seed, *2 tablespoons chia seeds, *1/2 tbsp of ground cinnamon, *3 large eggs, *2 teaspoons vanilla, *1/4 cup of light almond milk, *1/4 cup Stevia in the raw, *2 servings whey protein powder, *1 teaspoon baking soda, & *1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin.
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Add all the ingredients to a mixing bowl and combine well.
-Grease a baking sheet and drop(3 tablespoons) a spoonful of pumpkin onto the pan. Spread it out into a cookie form.
Bake the cookies 10-12 minutes.
Store the cookies in the refrigerator. I like to eat them cold.
Let the cookies cool on the pan before removing.
Recipe makes 24-26 cookies.
Nutrition Per Cookie:
40 Calories, 2g Fat, 5g Protein, 3g Fiber, 4g Fiber, 1g Sugar. 
I had mine with breakfast this morning. I love high-protein breakfasts. My breakfast consisted of a four-egg white omelet, one egg omelet, bacon, watermelon, jelly, and protein cookies.
The cookies are really soft, but incredibly delicious. They have more of a muffin texture. If you’re a pumpkin fan, you’ll love these. Plus, pumpkin is extremely healthy for you! I’m heading out of town for a while tomorrow and plan on taking these with me for the road trip!
Love these! I have been hoping to find a pumpkin protein cookie! Will def. have to try these!
Can I use 3 eggs?
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Enjoy the road trip!! Where are you headed? 🙂
I love how everything came together when you baked it!
Where do you buy this protein powder from?
I LOVE high-protein breakfasts!!! 😀
I’m going to have to try and figure out a way to vegan-ize these cookies. They look so so SO good!!!!
This is such a great idea! So versatile!
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Is there anything that can be subbed for the chia and flax? maybe oat flour? Thanks!
would these be okay to freeze and heat up later?
Mmmm I love this idea! I’ll pack them for our hiking trip tomorrow, snacks gotta have ’em!
Hey there! Really excited about trying this recipe! I was wondering if I could use Vanilla Herbalife Formula 1 Protein powder instead of whey?
was just wondering is it really 1/8 cup cinnamon? but look delicious
I was wondering the same thing…..and can you substitute any protein powder or does it have to be whey?
You list fiber grams twice, but no carb grams. “3g Fiber, 4g Fiber”
No listing for carb grams but fiber is listed in gms twice.
I have vanilla whey protein. Will that work? Also wondering about the amount of cinnamon as others have asked.
Just made these!! We drizzled sugar free maple syrup on them and they were AMAZING! They tasted liked French toast. MMMMMMM!!
I was also wondering about the carb count. Fiber is listed twice.
I would love to make these for Thanksgiving weekend!! I love anything pumpkin flavored.
Well, I know now what my next little recipe is going to be!! These look amazing, and I absolutely love Jamie. She is a total sweetheart so I love that you used her protein!! I love finding new blogger friends!! <3 Yay!
Do you know what the approximate size/weight of the serving size of the protein powder? 1/4 cup, 1 tbsp or ? I have a low-carb whey protein powder that I can use, but just need to know how much.
I can’t wait to try these. I think I’m going to try it with bananas instead of pumpkin just to see what happens.
Love these. I made them with banana instead of pumpkin and my peanut butter protein powder. They are so delicious and no flour involved. I also divided the recipe by 4 to make a small batch. I will be making these once a week. Such a great alternative to drinking protein shakes all the time. 🙂
Loved these! Thanks
I’m wondering how you came up with the nutrition facts. Fiber is a type of carb, so if there are 4 grams of fiber, there would be at least 4 grams of carbs.
I think she is speaking NET carbs as fiber cannot be disgested and almost no impact on blood glucose.
http://www.atkin.com/how-it-works/library/articles/what-are-net-carbs
didn’t notice the 1g of sugar, now it makes sense 🙂
I mixed some cream cheese, stevia, vanilla and thinned with a little water. It made a delicious icing and even my little girl asked to have them for breakfast!!
Would Brown Rice Protein powder work just as well?
whats a good sub for the stevia? could I use coconut sugar?
yes!
i baked these cookies they are very good but it felt spongy like consistency. is there anything i could do to make it like a cookie to firm them up a tad bit more.
Deelish!!! I was skeptical about how runny my batter turned out so I ended up putting everything into a 9×13 and baked for 20mins. Came out awesome. Thanks for the great recipe 😀
1 serving of this brand of protein powder is ~40g.
Hi, what are the total carbs in these? Type 1 diabetics need to calculate based on total carbs not net carbs.
Thanks,
She kindly gives all macros. Read.
I’m a little late to the party, but I just found this recipe. I made these and they are really good—compared to some of the protein cookies I’ve made—A N D still ate in the past!! Lol
I wanted them to be a little more baked so I left them in for about 15-16 min. When I make them again, I will add more cinnamon and maybe some pumpkin pie spice because I like spicy cookies.. Also, I think these would make great Whoopie Pies (aka Gobs). Just make some stevia sweetened frosting and slap it in the middle of two cookies! Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Don’t see the carb count .
the recipe says ” drop(3 tablespoons) a spoonful of pumpkin onto the…” so is it 3 tbsp or a spoonful? I did 3 tbsp for the first 2 cookie sheets in the oven and reduced to 2 tbsp for the last 2 sheets and only got 22 cookies…………..recipe says 24-26 – maybe only 2 tbsp?