Maple Sticky Bun Bars

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Okay, my love of nut butters knows absolutely no bounds; I pretty much try to have it at every single meal during the day. Breakfast? English muffin with cashew butter. Lunch? Traditional PB&J. Dinner? Pancake bowl topped with one or both nut butters (God, I love bulking season). American Dream Nut Butters did a pretty solid fall launch including some pumpkin flavors, and more importantly, a maple sticky bun cashew butter that’s got candied pecans and brown sugar chunks in a maple-flavored base. I want to bathe in this butter, it’s that good. I made the judgement call that it would be decidedly easier to bake with this butter, so these maple sticky bun bars with cream cheese + cashew butter glaze came to be. Whip up a batch, and you’ll see why. They’re soft, mapley, and decadent without being too sweet or over the top. Butter back off, you won’t want to share.

It’s a sticky situation.

Recipe and Instructions

Maple Sticky Bun Bars

  • Servings: 9
  • Difficulty: Beginner
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Soft, sticky maple bars great for breakfast or dessert (or both)

If not gluten free, use any kind of Kodiak Cakes or just-add water flapjack mix! You can also use your preferred whey protein flavor/brand.

Ingredients

*60 grams (~2 scoops) Quest vanilla milkshake protein powder
*106 grams (1 cup) Kodiak Cakes gluten free flapjack mix
*1 tsp cinnamon
*48 g (1/4 cup) Lakanto golden monkfruit
*1 tsp vanilla
*113 grams (1/2 cup) Greek yogurt
*60 mL (1/4 cup) sugar free syrup
*1/3 cup fat free or skim milk
*56 grams (1/4 cup) American Dream Maple Sticky Bun Cashew Butter

For the swirl
*24 grams (2 TBS) Lakanto golden monkfruit
*1 tsp cinnamon
*15 mL (1 TBS) sugar free syrup

For the glaze
*28 grams (1 ounce) 1/3 the fat cream cheese, softened
*28 grams (2 TBS) Maple Sticky Bun Cashew butter
*15 mL (1 TBS) sugar free syrup

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 and grease an 8×8 baking pan
    2. 2.In a large bowl, whisk together the vanilla, yogurt, syrup, milk, and cashew butter until smooth
  2. Add in the protein powder, Kodiak Cakes mix, golden monkfruit, and cinnamon, whisking just until everything comes together
  3. Pour into prepared pan
  4. In a separate small bowl, mix the golden monkfruit, syrup, and cinnamon for the swirl
  5. Drop small spoonfuls of the swirl mix on top of the batter in your prepared pan
  6. Use a knife to trace swirls in the batter
  7. Bake for 16-18 minutes, until a toothpick comes out mostly clean
  8. Let your bars cool on a cooling rack in the pan until room temperature
  9. Mix together the cream cheese, cashew butter, and syrup until smooth; you want a drippy consistency, so add more syrup if needed
  10. Drizzle over cooled bars
  11. Slice and enjoy! Keep leftovers in the fridge

Nutrition

Macros
9 servings
149 cal/14 c/5 f/12 p per slice
All tapped out of my cashew butter after this…gonna need another order ASAP!

Didn’t think I’d let a fall recipe pass by without SOME addition of pumpkin spice, did ya? This pairs great with Nick’s seasonal pumpkin spice swirl ice cream!

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