You guys. Sometimes internships are really important. And helpful for people who are entering the real world. But the place I’m not comfortable with having an intern is during my annual pap. Yep, that’s how I’m starting this blog post. A couple weeks ago, I had literally the most awkward pap of my life. Usually, they take like 5 minutes. With an intern there, it took almost 20 minutes. 20 minutes with 2 people gazing into my soul. No ok. She couldn’t even find the one thing she was looking for up there. They kept telling me to just relax. Um, ma’ams, you’re asking me to relax when you have 4 eyes searching for an object that seems foreign to you? You’re high. I’m requesting no intern next year. She will have to learn anatomy on another human.
Let’s catch up! About stuff other than my pap. Sorry I haven’t had a ton of new recipes for you recently! With my traveling schedule along with working on a new project for you guys, my creativity hasn’t been at an all time high. But don’t you worry, that will change before you know it and all my attention will be on you guys, you needy only child. Oh wait, that’s me. Coming up with new recipes is just hard sometimes. I feel like I’ve made everything possible within paleo’s boring perimeters, but then thankfully I pull something new out of my ass.
Other things that have been happening: I’ve started to look for a house to actually buy. Such a grown up thing to do. From 2006 to today, I’ve lived in 7 different apartments/homes, all renting. Nowadays, I live in one of the hip and up-and-coming neighborhoods. Up-and-coming means people who are shooting up and tripping balls are around the corner, but you still pay a lot for your apartment. It doesn’t make much sense, but I do have an exciting nightlife outside of my back door. Sadly, I’m not much into nightlife anymore. I’m in to sleeping. Sleeping is pretty much the greatest thing of all time. But people are partying until 2am then work traffic picks up at 6am, that gives a night silence of 4 hours. Which is usually interrupted by sirens for the people that were shooting up all night on the street corner. You get what I’m sayin’? I need suburbs. Not like the hills of Golden suburbs, because I grew up in a neighborhood like that, but suburbs that are still at least 10 minutes from downtown. It makes me feel less old that way. I’ll probably never drive downtown, but knowing that I could, makes me feel like I’m not being an old fart. I just can’t wait to walk Jackson around a neighborhood that I don’t constantly have to pull him away from someone’s vomit. It’s the little things.
Don’t you hate when you google something you don’t want other people to see, then it pops up on one of the ads of a website you’re looking at? The worst. Thank the lord I’m not googling STD’s. My pap intern would have been real freaked out. Too far?
Protein Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Yield: 16-18 1x
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup smooth almond butter
- 1/4 cupcoconut sugar
- 1 egg, whisked
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 scoop (35 grams) Vanilla Primal Fuel
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Add all ingredients in bowl and mix well until combined.
- Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon to scoop out batter and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. The batter should make 16-18 cookies.
- Baking for 15-18 minutes until cooked through.
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Any substitute for the protein powder? I know a few people asked, I hope I didn’t miss the reply… or can they be done with it omitted?
Thanks!
First of all I am obsessed with all of your recipes! Just made these. I never really like pumpkin things..I know so un-American…but figured I’d give these a try. I left out the pumpkin pie spice (I actually think that’s what I don’t like). The batter was pretty thin and the texture is more cake like than cookie like but nonetheless they’re yummy. Even my boyfriend liked them and he hates all orange veggies. I’ll definitely try a second batch and see how they turn out! And Juli, that is legit one of the worst gyno stories ever. Not cool.
I made without protien powder. I did not have coconut sugar, so I used about 1/8 cup maple syrup. I refrigerated the dough about 15 minutes before I baked. They turned out awesome. Very tasty and moist.
I’ve made these 3 times now and they are amazing. Just thought I’d share that I replaced the eggs with gelatin (1 TBS gelatin, 1 TBS room temp water, 2 TBS almost boiling water). I add it in after mixing everything else but before the chocolate chips. Perfect cookie consistency. I ate almost the entire batch in one sitting. (I’m pregnant so it’s ok, right?) Thanks for the recipe!!!
I made these last night and even the hubby liked them (he usually frowns at my paleo treats). Unfortunately, the hubby likes them, and the kids like them, so there are fewer for me!
I have never taken the time to review a recipe, but these were AMAZING! I had some leftover pumpkin that I did not know what to do with when this recipe came across my email. My kiddos did not like them (but they do not like pumpkin), and since I did not want to waste them I decided it was best if I ate the rest . . . within the next two hours. Thanks for a great recipe!
First.. I love the heck out of this site. And I love these cookies. I’ve made them 3 times and I have a question. How do you store them and how long do they keep. I make enough for the week and store then in the fridge but they get really moist and need to be warmed up. Suggestions and Thanks!! 🙂
i store mine in the fridge and they usually keep for up to 2 weeks in there!
effing LOVE these things. may be my all time fav PaleOMG recipe! Great pre and post work out (or any time really) snack!
I tried this recipe, followed it to the T and it turned out great. I’ve made 5 batches and they get gobbled up every tme. I liked the pumpkin protein cookie recipe better than your sweet potato protein cookie recipe Pumpkin Protein Cookie was more like a real cookie. Mary
These are really tasty. Made 17 good size cookies. I don’t use protein powder so substituted a heaping tablespoon coconut flour and it worked perfectly.