I don’t know why, but I shop for food like I’m a Duggar. Apparently feeding a marathon runner (me) is similar to feeding a house full of teenage boys.
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That also means I often have massive amounts of the most random ingredients. A while back I bought 26 pounds of dried cranberries from Costco and I’ve been mixing them into everything. Remember that Coconut Rice – yep, even there.
So, I’ve been thinking about making cranberry bread for a while and finally got to it. This is is a healthy version of the holiday staple with protein powder and oat flour. That makes it great to eat everyday as a snack slathered with some almond butter…
Cranberry Protein Bread Recipe
{high protein, gluten free if using g-free oats*}
Ingredients:
- 1/2 heaping cup oats, blended to make flour
- 1/2 cup protein powder (vanilla or strawberry)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1-2 Tb. stevia or sugar *My protein powder is very sweet so you can add more or less depending on your powder.
- 1 6 oz. container strawberry or cherry greek yogurt
- 1.5 Tb. coconut oil or melted butter
- 1 egg or 1/4 cup egg whites
- 2 Tb. almond milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
Directions: Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix dry ingredients – oats (blended to make flour), protein powder, salt, baking soda, sugar.
Add in wet ingredients – yogurt, oil, milk, vanilla and eggs. Combine. Add cranberries.
Pour into well greased baking pan. There is not a lot of oil in this recipe, so grease it up!
Bake for 15-25 minutes or until done.
Enjoy!
Looks great, going to make it today! About how many servings does it make?
That actually looks really good. Do you think Almond flour would work instead of the oats.
This looks like the perfect make on sunday and eat every day for breakfast kinda food.
Turns out I have some dried cranberries that have been hanging around in my cupboard for a while…I might have to give this recipe a try 🙂
26 lbs of cranberries? I’m not even mad, I’m just impressed!
This is random but… did you notice in the picture of the Duggars, the girl on the far right’s legs are cut out of the pic!
Aanndd the bread looks amazing!
This is the first time I tried a recipe I found on a blog – and it was really yummy! (Although it didn’t looks so great – it kinda has a greenish color, maybe from my protein powder or something?) Either way – it was delicious! thanks! 🙂
Did you use Vega protein powder? That one turns greenish for me..
I thought it was me… I buy so much food & there’s 2 of us in the house
I made a tutorial for how to make clean, gluten free, easy almond milk! You should check it out 🙂 I’m posting how to make flour on Friday.
Yours truly,
Melissa a redhead NOT from Ireland
http://www.theredheadedrunner.com
bahaha 26 lbs of cranberries?! only at costco…
I have a lot of dried cranberries as well, so I’m trying to think of new ways to use them other than on top of my breakfast. Thanks for the recipe!
Love cranberries! I had some chocolate covered cranberries at Yogurtland the other day – everything is better with chocolate 🙂
Your bread looks great!
Agreed! They have those at TJ’s too! They have everything chocolate covered at TJ’s…
Yuuummmm. I bet my husband would eat this not knowing its healthy..muhhaaaaaa!
Hi Monica,
I live in Spain, and here it is difficult to find proteins powers with neutral flavor and able to bake. Since i’ll be in the States next week, i wanted to buy one but i dont have a clue about brands. Could you please tell me what kind of protein power able to cook and neutral should i buy? Thanks a lot!!
Cheers
Hello Maru! Most of the time I use a vanilla whey protein powder. Health foods stores have the most variety, so I would suggest you check Whole Foods or Mother’s Market (or similar). For whey, I use whatever is around. If you were avoiding whey I’d suggest Vega, Jay Robb or Spirutein.
26 pounds! Wow, I’m not sure I would be able to polish those off. Regardless, I would by 26 pounds of cranberries if it mean’t making this recipe. This bread looks amazing!
That looks delicious: thanks for sharing the recipe, I’ll need to give it a go!
What size pan did you use? Looks yummy!
It’s a small loaf pan, around 4×8 ish in size.
Need to eat that NOW!
Do you find that this bread is really dense? I’m just wondering… P.S. Do you have a Bruegger’s Bagels near you???? Idk if they’re just an east coast chain or PA chain but I was in one the other day and they had a poster up for their new Siracha and egg breakfast sandwich and I couldn’t help but think of you! 🙂
Yes, the bread is pretty dense and does’t rise very much (you can kinda see that the pieces are not tall). Using protein powder and oats as opposed to white flour keeps it from being light and fluffy like a dessert bread.
Mmmmmm can’t wait to get home to make this!
I can’t wait to try this! Thanks fo sharing.
OMG – YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mmmm, this look delish! thanks for sharing. i foresee a bit of baking in my near future 🙂
I love me some cranberries! I might need to try this recipe soon, I’ve been craving baked goods, and this is healthier than a big slice of cake… But mmmm cake
Yum looks like a great recipe! Thanks for sharing 🙂
That’s a lot of cranberries! 😀
I’ve been eating nut butters slathered on everything, lately. So yummy, and it satisfies my constant runger.
Oh em gee. Yum!
Yum!! This looks perfect for a fall snack!
Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing! I am guilty of the same thing- I buy staples in ridiculously large quantities. In my pantry right now you will find at least 6 bottles of coconut water and 5 jars of PB.
This looks so good. Cranberries are very much an underrated fruit. So good in so many thing!
this recipe looks great! thank you for sharing 🙂 i’ll have to try making this, although i’d most likely sub in blueberries since i have a TON right now!
Looks tasty! Did you buy 26 pounds of cranberries to correlate with the number of miles? 🙂
Ha! Yes, I must buy things in 26 packs only 🙂