Quinoa chocolate protein breakfast bake! I attempted to make this in the oven on the first round but it came out a little flat and not particularly inviting. I decided to give it another go in the microwave and the result was incredible!
It rose beautifully! Squidgy baked banana running within, a delicious rich chocolate taste, soft, moist, light and altogether my idea of heaven in a bowl; or a ramekin!
A mixture of quinoa flower and Vanilla Sunwarrior Protein powder along with some raw cacao powder formed the base. The combination was awesome, the protein powder providing just enough sweetness and really complimenting and softening the flavour of both the quinoa flour and raw cacao powder perfectly.
I wasn’t sure whether or not to stick a chocolate nut butter on top but at the last minute went with SunButter. SunButter and chocolate cake…AMAZING! They go so well together! The smooth runny SunButter oozed down in to the bake with every spoonful that I devoured.
It was lip licking good; I did my best to savour every bite but it was damn hard. Seriously good enough to serve up for dessert but probably a little too filling after a main meal. The protein powder gave the bake the extra bit of staying powder that they sometimes lack.
Easy on the tummy, even easier on the eye and a delight for the tastebuds! I haven’t been using a whole lot of protein powder of late, smoothie season has largely come to an end in these parts, but instant bakes are the perfect way to get my fill.
I’ll definitely be making more of these; different varieties of course. I am the experimental flavour combination queen after all….even if they don’t always work out! 
HAVE to order more SunButter and Bobs Red Mill Quinoa Flour this week!!! Two new staples! What did I ever do without iHerb!?!
What’s your favourite instant bake variety? In the past I’ve always stuck with buckwheat flour and buckwheat groats, which don’t be get me wrong, is delicious, but it’s nice to switch things up a bit!
Instant Chocolate Quinoa Protein Bake
Servings –1
Preparation Time – 15 minutes
Cooking Time – 2.5 minutes
Ingredients
Bake
- 35g (1/4 cup) wholegrain quinoa flour
- 1 heaped tsp raw cacao powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 scoop (21g) Vanilla Sunwarrior Protein Powder
- 1 tbsp flax + 3 tbsp water
- 80ml (1/3 cup) almond milk
- 1/2 small banana diced (reserve the rest for topping)
Toppings
- 1 tbsp SunButter
- 1/2 tsp coconut
- 1 heaped tsp bee pollen
- 1 tsp raw cacao nibs
- Raspberries
- Other half of your banana sliced
Directions
- Mix together flax and water and set to one side for 15 minutes.
- Mix together protein powder, flour, cacao powder, and baking powder.
- Add flax egg to milk and stir well to combine before adding to the dry ingredients.
- Fold in diced banana.
- Place mixture in to a lightly greased medium sized ramekin. Make sure to leave fingernail depth right the way around to give it room to rise!
- “Bake” in the microwave on high powder for 2.5 minutes.
- Serve topped with raspberries, sliced banana, coconut, bee pollen, cacao nibs and SunButter!
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Oooh, this sounds awesome! Too bad quinoa flour is nowhere to be found around here. Do you think subbing whole wheat flour might work? I really want to try this!
Oh ye of course, it’s just the quinoa flour that gives it it’s incredible flavour. If you can get quinoa or quinoa flakes you could make your own flour!
Quinoa flakes are just another ingredient Germany’s devoid of and hmmm, my blender … sucks. I’m not sure it’d grind quinoa finely enough though it’d be a great way to use up the neglected quinoa in my pantry. Sorry, quinoa …
But else you think it’d work with whole wheat flour? I thought about mixing it with some coconut flour, my favourite
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I wouldn’t go with all coconut flour, I’ve tried it and it didn’t work out so well!
Haha, no I meant to mix coconut and whole-wheat flour
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really, i can make quinoa flour out of my quinoa flakes?? awesome. quinoa flour is so expensive but i want to try it.
I’ve actually never tried it but I don’t see why not?!
it worked very easily, now i can’t wait to try out my quinoa flour
This looks be-a-utiful!
We need to re-stock our quinoa supplies, and then make this. Really really soon! 
It’s so good, I’m just madly in love with quinoa flour!!!
These looks and sounds delicious!! I’ve never cooked with quinoa flour {I need to give it a try}, but I’ve been experimenting a lot with coconut flour and really like the results.
Ye and it can be tricky but I do love it as well! So naturally sweet (the coconut flour I mean!)
I love adding sunwarrior after I’ve cooked my oats, makes them all doughy, and much more filling. I’m not sure about cooking with it though, I don’t know whether that destroys the enzyme structure of the protein?!
There’s no conclusive research and they themselves actually promotes it’s use in baked goods so I’m not overly concerned
Your photos look amazing! I posted a very similar recipe a couple months ago, but I used a real egg instead of the flax egg. The flax egg didn’t work for me in the oven either, I guess all I had to do was microwave it! That would have saved a looot of time lol
Thanks Jessica! Just checked out your blog, amazing recipes! Great minds think a like!
I’ll definitely be revisiting. For some unknown reason your comment got spammed…just found it now!