Watching Heated Rivalry made be feel like eating more protein. So, this is a recipe I've been making lately. It's basically no-bake cookies but with half the sugar replaced with protein powder.

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• dash of salt
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• splash of vanilla extract (if you have it)
• 1 + 1/4 cups of whey protein powder (I used vanilla flavoured NuAge Pure Whey Protein powder from Costco)
• 3 cups of oatmeal

Directions

• In a large mixing bowl, stir together the protein powder and oatmeal.
• In a saucepan, bring the sugar, butter, cocoa powder and salt to boil for 1 minute while stirring often.
• Take the saucepan off the heat and stir in the peanut butter (and vanilla extract if you're using it).
• Pour the contents of the saucepan over the protein powder and oatmeal mixture. Stir until everything is well-combined.
• On wax paper, parchment paper, or a silimat, you can plop down spoonfuls of the mixture to make cookies, or you can spread out a 3cm-ish layer of the mixture and split it into rectangles with a butterknife to make bars.
• Allow the cookies/bars to rest for a few hours and then you can store them in containers or eat them all at once