Oooh Jude ... if they have a dark chocolate, be sure to let us know! I really can't accept that white chocolate is REALLY chocolate but, if we have to, we'll go back to semi sweet (or bitter-sweet) Bakers for our dark choccy bars!!!!

Yeah, Thrifty's had 3 flavours left of the Ross bars, but they had a notice on the price tag where they'd go on the shelf to the effect DO NOT REORDER WITHOUT ????? AUTHORIZATION! (can't remember the word(s) in the ?????) We LOVE the dark chocolate and, because the maltitol doesn't seem to affect us, we count the carbs. We're close enough to maintenance,we really feel we can afford than much of a treat (1/2 a bar for dessert) after supper daily.

BUT .... you used 1/2 packet of the 1.5 L so ... 750 ML = 1.5 packets of 500 ML packet???? No????

I bought a few flavours to try ... including strawverry-kiwi, but really looking forward to a delicious chocolate protein cookie that we can kid ourselves is really good and well worth the carb count!!!!

Well, maybe I didn't word it so well in the recipe: I used half a package, which is 1 pouch which had the sweetening capacity for 1.5L of water... ...the Crystal Light, too, comes in a package holding 2 pouches each of which sweetens 1.5L...the front of the packages says "makes 3L" and then in slightly smaller letters "2 pouches x 1.5L". Anyways, it would take 6 Singles to equal 1 retail regular CL Package and 3 Singles to equal 1 retail regular CL Pouch. Now I don't remember the cost of a Package of Singles or how many are in it, but that may help you in your cost comparisons.

Sorry about that!

...and yes, definitely need to work up that Chocolate Chocolate version, and dark is my fave, so Dark Chocolate it will be. I'll do my best to keep the carb count down, promise.

So, it still needs a LITTLE tweaking (more cocoa, maybe more flax or wpc...thinking on it) but they are pretty darn tasty as is, which might explain why I had 3 for breakfast



and here's the final product, doesn't look all that different . The following 2 images are 1) in daylight no flash and 2) in daylight with flash (my kitchen's kind of dark). The colour is different enough, I thought it might be better to see both.

and here's the recipe, so far...

Just noticed the talk of using Crystal Light instead of a sucralose sweetened drink mix. Crystal Light is sweetened with aspartame and, to the best of my knowledge, you can't bake with it. Nestea mixes and Lipton Iced-tea-to-go are sweetened with sucralose. Wow, I just read the label and corn syrup solids and corn dexetrin are way high on the list on CL and my arthritis is sensitive to corn. Guess sweetened drink powders are about to bite the dust.

Hmmmmm, I just checked my variety of packets, and I know someone else who used CL successfully in this recipe. Some of the mixes, such as CL, DO contain aspartame, and also acesulfame-K (a blend is pretty standard)...and it's a very short cooking time, so that probably explains why they got sweetening from their packet of CL as even aspartame takes a bit of time to lose its sweet from heat, or Equal packets wouldn't have worked in North America's coffee and beverages as long as it has.


My Peach version used Western Family, a generic brand, that IS sweetened with sucralose, as are the newer model Nestea mixes, and even a box of GSC Gourmet brand (I think that's a Walmart house brand) of Apple Cranberry Tea (which also contains a blend, the sucralose and the acesulfame-K).

Each and every brand above contains Maltodextrin and/or Dextrose and/or Corn Dextrin and/or Corn Syrup Solids. Not so good. Each of them also declares 1g carb per serving, with rounding that's technically 1.49g carb that could be made up of those sugars/products max per "serving", including the singles packets that's <4.5g per recipe. So I guess it depends on just how sensitive you (or anyone else with a corn sensitivity) are to the corn products whether you can tolerate this recipe or not.

BTW, I just checked a late model Unsweetened Koolaid packet (that declares 0g carb per serving but is a >7g total weight packet also containing Maltodextrin as a carrier/filler for the flavors) and it makes 2 quarts/liters and requires a Cup of "sugar". If granular Splenda is used, that's 24g of carbs from Maltodextrin as the carrier/filler from the Splenda alone, not counting what's in the Koolaid. If the Splenda Quickpack is used, that's 3g of carbs from Dextrose and Maltodextrin.

So those (almost always) corn products are everywhere in artificially sweetened and unsweetened products. And in most retail available sweetener products.

As always, the individual must decide what products they can use or tolerate, and know why.

There's always the chocolate cookie recipe, though and a vanilla with chocolate chips could be made, just have to choose your sweetener(s) carefully.

Can i use soy-protein intead of whey protein in that recipe? Because i have some soy-protein and i've heard that soy-protein is better than whey-protein for baking

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I have no idea...haven't tried it in this. I do remember soy protein isolate (if that's what you have) as being drier and "squeakier" if that's possible. You may need a bit more moisture.

Give a half batch a try and see what you think, then post back...