Healthy Better than Sex Cake – Best High Protein Recipe

Healthy Better than Sex Cake recipe is the best you will find! High protein, low sugar and low fat, but the same chocolate cake, condensed milk, caramel and toffee flavor you love.

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Someone actually requested this recipe from me about a month ago, and I’m extremely grateful to that person. Thank you Meredith!

This cake was so so so flavorful, I have no words!

Think about this – a rich chocolate protein cake, protein ‘condensed milk’, sugar-free ‘caramel’, cool whip topping and then chocolate and Heath toffee bits on the top. What more can you really want from a dessert?!

This cake was magical to put it lighty.

Ingredients for Healthy Better than Sex Cake

This healthy better than sex cake recipe made with clean ingredients. Whole wheat pastry flour, protein powder and monkfruit sweetener instead of regular flour and sugar, and also a high-protein and sugar-free version of condensed milk and caramel.

For the High-Protein Chocolate Cake:

• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
• Whey-Casein Chocolate Protein Powder needed for a high protein cake and also replaces the ‘sugar’.
  I used Whey-Casein Chocolate protein powder from Quest Nutrition.
• Whey Chocolate Protein Powder: Dymatize ISO 100 Chocolate Whey.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder 
• 1:1 Zero Calorie Sugar Substitute – I use Lakanto, to keep this recipe sugar-free;  (code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here)
• Instant Coffee
• Hot Water
• Unsweetened Applesauce
• Some Lemon Juice
• A bit of Melted Butter
• Baking Soda

Protein Condensed Milk

• Whey-casein Vanilla Protein Powder – I used the one from Quest Nutrition
• Unsweetened Almond Milk

Sugar-free Caramel

• Powder Almond Butter: The one from PB2 here.
  Peanut Butter Powder from Lakanto (the code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount) or PbFit works too.
• Caramel flavor Peanut Butter!  I used American Dream Nut Butter Peanut Butter; It’s lower fat and higher protein than other nut butters.
  ADNB also has a lot of other peanut butter flavors that would go perfect here. Code HAYLSKITCHEN gets you a discount here!
• Sugar-free Caramel Coffee Syrup I used the one from Lakanto (use code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount)
• Water

Toppings for Healthy Better than Sex Heath Cake

• Reduced Fat Cool Whip
• Toffee Bits – I used the regular ones from Heath
• Sugar-free Chopped Chocolate – The sugar-free one from Lakanto here. Use the code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount.

How to make the Better than Sex Heath Cake with Protein Powder

This protein powder better than sex Heath cake is super easy to make, and doesn’t need any fancy baking skills. Here’s what you have to do:

1. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl.
   Sieve the cocoa powder and flour so you don’t have any lumps!

2. Whisk the wet ingredients – hot water, applesauce, melted butter and lemon juice.
   Use hot water; This is essential. Hot, not boiling, not warm.
   Use melted butter so that it mixes well into the healthy chocolate poke cake batter.

3. Add dry ingredients to wet, and mix.
   Batter will be runny.
   Don’t over-mix the batter! Gently fold; over-mixing will make your poke cake dense because of the protein powder and wheat flour.

4. Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener.
   Use stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have healthy, sugar free chocolate poke cake.

5. Pour batter immediately into baking pan and bake
   Don’t let the batter sit out too long (avoids reactions between the ingredients)

6. Stop baking when tester/knife comes out just dry, but moist.
   Don’t over-bake the cake or it will get tough.

Make Filling:

7. WHEN CAKE IS STILL HOT, whisk condensed milk and caramel ingredients to make filling.
   Don’t wait cake to cool!

8. Poke holes in cake (use rounded end of wooden spoon/spatula) not too close or too far – 1” ish apart.

9. Pour filing into holes immediately – condensed milk then caramel. 

Frosting:

10. LET CAKE COOL BEFORE FROSTING or the cool whip will melt.

11. Spread cool whip on top, then top with toffee bits and chopped chocolate.

How to store High Protein Better Than Sex Cake

This high protein Better than Sex cake can only be kept on the countertop for about an hour.

Store healthy better than sex cake  in an airtight container in the fridge for upto 4 days or freezer for 2-3 months. Thaw frozen cake before eating.

Alternatives for Chocolate Better than Sex Cake

For the perfect protein Chocolate better than sex cake recipe, I would highly suggest using the ingredients recommended, but here’s some alternatives to try:

• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: Use All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour in the same amount by weight, not cups.
• 1:1 Zero Calorie Sugar Replacement: Regular confectioners sugar or coconut sugar (this won’t be sugar free though, and also higher in calories)
• Unsweetened Applesauce: Pumpkin Puree
• Melted Butter: Melted Coconut Oil or Dairy Free Butter
• Lemon Juice: Apple Cider Vinegar or White Vinegar

Protein Condensed Milk:

• Almond Milk: Regular Milk
• Chocolate Pudding Mix: Vanilla flavor

Sugar-free Caramel:

• Almond Butter Powder: Try peanut butter powder. If not, used almond butter, but also reduce the water; Add 1 teaspoon at a time.
• Sugar Free Caramel Coffee Syrup: Regular caramel coffee syrup or even simple syrup.

Topping:

• Cool Whip: Dairy free whipped topping
• Toffee Bits: Chopped candy like Butterfinger
• Sugar Free Chocolate: Regular chocolate

More Copycat Chocolate Protein Cake Recipes:

• Healthy Frosted Fudge Cakes
• Protein Chocolate Mud Cake
• Chocolate Protein Skillet Cake
• Low Carb Chocolate Protein Cake
• Chocolate Peppermint Protein Cake