Healthy Valentine’s Mini Cakes – High Protein, Sugar Free

Cutest Healthy Valentine’s Mini Cakes are pretty and pretty good for you. High protein mini Valentine’s Day cakes are low sugar, low calorie and low fat too!

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I’d been seeing everyone on Instagram making heart shaped foods for Valentines Day and I wanted to try something cute but simple. Lo and behold I found this heart-shaped baking pan that my mom had gotten me a few months ago. NGL, I thought I would never use it – who bakes heart stuff on a regular basis right? I guess keeping it for now was a good idea!

These mini healthy Valentines Day heart cakes turned out perfect. And so good with the chocolate coating on one side.

Ingredients for Healthy Valentine’s Mini Cakes

These Valentine’s mini cakes are sweetened with protein powder and use applesauce and egg whites too – no sugar or butter needed!

• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour – or a regular all purpose flour
• Chocolate Protein Powder – This adds in sweetness for a recipe with no added sugar.
  I used Whey-Casein Quest Nutrition and Whey Isopure Chocolate Protein Powder for this recipe.
• Unsweetened Cocoa
• Baking Powder
• Unsweetened Applesauce – Replaces the fat that’s in most donut recipes. 
• Egg Whites

And for the Topping of these Heart shaped Valentine’s Day Cakes

• Sugar Free Chocolate: I used the one from Lakanto here.
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• Melted Coconut Oil
• Valentine’s Day Sprinkles

How to make Mini Valentine’s Day Protein Cakes

These mini Valentine’s Day protein cakes are super easy to make; One of those mix and bake recipes. Here’s what it takes:

1. Preheat: Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a 10-cavity mini cake pan (heart shaped if possible!).
   
2. Dry ingredients: Mix flour, chocolate whey and chocolate whey-casein protein powders, cocoa powder and baking powder.

3. Wet ingredients: Add applesauce and egg whites; Whisk.

4. Bake: Divide batter among 10 mini-cake pan cavities, and bake 10-12 minutes.

For the chocolate coating:

5. Melt chocolate: Place chocolate and coconut oil in a bowl and microwave about 45 sec stirring at 15 second intervals.

6. Dunk!: Dip chocolate cakes in melted chocolate and invert onto a cooling rack.
   
7. Sprinkle on the Valentine’s day sprinkles to make the perfect mini valentine’s day chocolate cakes.

Some Tips for Mini Valentines Chocolate Cake with Protein Powder:

These mini Valentines chocolate cakes are made with protein powde, but not difficult. Here’s some tips to get them right!

• Use whey-casein and whey protein powder as specified; Whey-casein absorbs more liquid. If you use all whey, use less applesauce.
  
• Make sure your mixture has enough moisture in it.
  Protein powder is quite absorbent and if the wet ingredients are too little, the cakes will be dry! The mix should be like a slightly runny brownie batter.

• Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have low sugar smores donut.

• Use room temperature egg whites and appleseauce so they mix well with the dry ingredients.

• Be sure to grease the mini heart cake pan so the baked valentine’s chocolate hearts come off easily.

• Melt chocolate in intervals so it doesn’t burn!

How to store Healthy Mini Valenetines Day Cake?

These homemade healthy mini valentine’s day cakes keep really well in the fridge, freezer, or even at room temperature.

Store valentine’s day heart cakes at room temperature, for 1-2 days in an airtight container, or 5 days in the fridge.

Another option is to freeze the mini valentine’s day chocolate cake; Place in freezer-safe zipper bags and freeze for up to 2 months.

Alternatives for a Healthy Valentine’s Heart Cakes

I made this low calorie, low fat and high protein healthy valentine’s heart cake recipe with this particular ingredient list, but here’s some options to try:

• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour or All purpose flour in the same amount by weight not cups.
• Chocolate Protein Powder: Use a Vanilla protein powder, but also add about 1tsp extra cocoa powder
• Applesauce: Mashed Banana or Pumpkin Puree

For the topping:

• Sugar-free Chocolate: Use regular Chocolate
• Coconut Oil: Butter works too

More High Protein Mini Cake Recipes:

• Mini Eggnog Protein Cakes
• Mini Chocolate Protein Cake

And some Healthy Valentine’s Day Desserts

• Valentine’s Day Protein Cookies
• Chocolate Strawberry Protein Skillet 
• Oreo Raspberry Protein Skillet Cookie
• Protein Red Velvet Scones
• Valentine’s Day Protein Dessert