Red Velvet Protein Pop Tarts – Healthy, Homemade, Sugar Free

Spot-on Red Velvet Protein Pop Tarts with a Greek yogurt-protein powder filling and frosting, just like the cupcake! Homemade red velvet pop tart is healthy, high protein, sugar free and easily Vegan too!

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This protein pop tart series really has me going so here’s another one checked off the list: Red Velvet Cupcake.

Now that I think about it, I think I’d rather eat this toaster pastry version of a red velvet cupcake instead of the actual thing. It’s a lot healthier, has no sugar, made with oat flour, and actually has nutritional value!

P. S. I always make my protein pop tarts in the air fryer, but there’s an option to bake this as well; I’ve got a note below.

Ingredients for Red Velvet Protein Pop Tarts Recipe

This healthy red velvet protein pop tarts recipe has just a few simple ingredients, and makes a great single serve gluten free, sugar free and Vegan pop tart.

Here’s what you need for healthy red velvet protein toaster pastries:

For the Red Velvet Protein Powder Pop Tarts Dough

• Oat Flour (you can make your own with rolled oats in a high speed blender)
• Chocolate Protein Powder for high protein pop tart, and also replace the sweetener.
  I recommend Protein World Slender Blend or ProteinWorld Whey for this recipe to keep it sugar free; Use the code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount.
  Another option would be Quest.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• Peanut Butter Powder, also known as Powdered Peanut Butter. I recommend Lakanto for a sugar free version (the code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount). Or you could use the one from PbFit too.
• Non-fat Greek Yogurt contributes to the high protein part of these homemade pop tarts.
• Red Food Coloring for that red velvet effect

Healthy Red Velvet Protein Pop Tarts Filling

• Non-fat Greek Yogurt
• Vanilla Protein Powder I recommend the same here too: Protein World Slender Blend or  ProteinWorld Whey; Use the code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount.
  Another option would be Quest.

A Sugar Free Pop Tart Frosting with Protein Powder!

• Non-fat Greek Yogurt
• 1:1 Sugar Free Powdered Sugar Replacement: I used Lakanto powdered monk fruit and erythritol sweetener (code HAYLSKITCHEN gets you a discount here too)

Tips for Homemade Red Velvet Pop Tart with Protein Powder

This homemade red velvet pop tart is made in the air fryer and really is an easy toaster pastry recipe, but here’s some tips to make sure you get it right!

• Process the dry ingredients first (oat flour, protein powder, cocoa powder and peanut butter powder)

• Use cold yogurt so that the dough does not get too sticky and hard to roll.

• Don’t over-process the dough or it will get too warm and soft. 

• Don’t let dough sit out for too long; Work quickly with rolling, adding the filling, rolling and cooking. Again, you don’t want the dough to get warm.

• If needed, flour the work surface and rolling pin to prevent dough from sticking

To make Baked Protein Pop Tart instead of using Air Fryer

Instead of an air fryer pop tart, make a baked chocolate toaster pastry; Place the pop tart pastry on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake at 425°F for 9 minutes.

Alternates for Healthy Red Velvet Pop Tart Recipe

I recommend making this sugar free and healthy red velvet toaster pastry recipe using the ingredients and products listed – since it gives the best results.

If you need other options, here’s some to try for a healthy red velvet cupcake pop tart:

• Oat Flour: 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour, all purpose flour or whole wheat pastry flour, in the same amount by weight, not cups
• Peanut Butter Powder: 2 teaspoon more Flour and 1 teaspoon more Protein Powder; I heaven’t tried this yet, so I’d like to know if you do!
• Coconut Yogurt in place of Greek Yogurt

Alternatives for the Red Velvet Toaster Pastry Filling and Topping:

• Protein Powder: Zero Calorie (sugar free) powdered sugar (but a bit less than the 
• Zero Calorie Powdered Sugar: Regular powdered sugar
• Greek Yogurt: Coconut yogurt again

A Sugar Free Vegan Protein Pop Tart Recipe

This single serve red velvet pop tart recipe has no eggs, so can easily be made Vegan too.

For a homemade Vegan red velvet pop tart, make sure you use a plant based protein powder, coconut yogurt, and dairy free chocolate chips.
ProteinWorld has a Vegan protein blend what would work well (HAYLSKITCHEN for the discount here too).

More Single Serve Protein Recipes to Try:

• Single Serving Chocolate Protein Cookie (Sugar, Oil & Gluten Free)
• Single Serve Protein Brownie (Sugar Free, Gluten Free, Vegan)
• Sensational Single Serve Protein Cookie Dough
• High Protein Cookie Butter Mug Cake
• Protein Chocolate Lava Cake

Or some Air Fryer Desesrts:

• Single Serve Protein Donut
• Air Fryer Protein Cookie for One (Gluten Free, Low Fat)
• Easy Air Fryer Chocolate Donuts – No Yeast, From Scratch!
• The Best Air Fryer Protein Donuts Holes from Scratch