Lemon Blueberry Protein Cookies With Collagen
Indulge in these Lemon Blueberry Protein Cookies with Collagen. With the addition of grassfed collagen, these soft and chewy lemon cookies have added protein!
If you’re looking for more lemon recipes, check out some of my other favorites like Lemon Olive Oil Snack Cake, Lemon Herb French Fries, Raspberry Lemon Snack Cake, Lemon Tahini Hummus, or Best Meyer Lemon Pound Cake.
A Quick Look At The Recipe
- Recipe Name: Lemon Blueberry Protein Cookies With Collagen
- Ready In: 23 minutes
- Makes: 12 cookies
- Main Ingredients: butter, all purpose flour, collagen, dried blueberries
- Flavor Profile: sweet and zesty lemon with bursts of sweet blueberries
- Dietary Info: 6g protein per cookie
- Difficulty: Easy!
- Why You’ll Love It: Protein cookies with no protein powder!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Soft and Chewy: These Lemon Blueberry Protein Cookies with Collagen are incredibly soft and chewy. If you like lemon sugar cookies, you’ll love this recipe! If you're looking for crispy cookies, try Strawberry Lemonade Sandwich Cookies instead.
- No Chill Time: You don’t need to chill these soft lemon cookies! This makes them quick and easy, no chilling required!
- Protein Cookies: You can easily add organic grassfed collagen into cookies for added protein! I’m using NuNaturals Organic Grassfed Collagen here, it’s a favorite of mine. It’s tasteless and provides natural protein to these lemon blueberry cookies.
- Collagen Benefits: Organic grassfed collagen contains amino acids, protein, and so many health benefits that outweigh traditional protein powder.
I teamed up with my friends at NuNaturals to create these protein cookies without protein powder. Instead, we're using NuNaturals Organic Grassfed Collagen here to give you 6 grams of protein per cookie! These cookies are so much better than a protein bar as they are made with real food ingredients!
I love getting my protein while eating treats too. Check out some other protein recipes made with real food ingredients like Tropical Bone Broth Protein Smoothie, Bone Broth Hot Cocoa, Pumpkin Spice Latte Protein Brownies, Healthy Orange Julius With Protein, or Chocolate Protein Pudding With Bone Broth.
Ingredients
- Butter: Use a high quality organic salted butter. If you want to use unsalted, just add 1/4 teaspoon salt to the recipe. Check out Best Salted Butter for Baking for more info on butter.
- Grassfed Collagen: I’m using NuNaturals Organic Grassfed Collagen. This adds protein to these protein cookies without protein powder!
- Lemon: I use fresh lemon zest as well as lemon flavor. This gives these cookies both a sweet and zesty flavor.
- Blueberries: I use organic dried blueberries for juicy blueberries on every bite. Don’t substitute for fresh as these have much more moisture than dried.
- All Purpose Flour: I use organic all purpose flour, but if you prefer to use a whole-wheat flour, you can do that too.
*For a full list of ingredients and measurements, visit the recipe card below.
Easy Substitutions
- You can use unsalted butter if you prefer, just add 1/4 teaspoon of salt to the recipe.
- If you don’t have dried blueberries, you can use dried cranberries in their place.
- If you don’t have turbinado sugar, just sprinkle the cookies with a little cane sugar after they bake. You don’t want to use cane sugar in place of turbinado sugar before baking as it will just melt into the cookie dough. But sprinkling it on top after baking will give a similar texture as using turbinado sugar! This is the technique I use in my Eggless Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies.
- These can easily be made orange instead of lemon, just by substituting the lemon for orange and lemon flavor for orange flavor.
Baker's Tips
- Makes sure your butter is soft. I prefer to leave it out on the counter to soften naturally.
- You can scoop these with a cookie scoop if you prefer, I’m just terrible at using them!
- Add in extra dried blueberries on top of the cookie dough before baking to make them look like they are bursting with blueberries!
- Make sure to store in an airtight container.
- High Altitude — Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown around the edges.
How to Make Lemon Blueberry Cookies Protein Cookies With Collagen
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Add the cane sugar and lemon zest to a small bowl and mix together.
- Add the butter, lemon sugar, and lemon flavor to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on low until combined and there are no butter chunks.
- Add the eggs, all purpose flour, collagen, baking powder, and salt and mix together.
- Add the dried blueberries and mix to combine completely.
- Form the dough into 12 cookie dough balls and place on the prepared baking sheets, spacing them evenly apart. You’ll have 6 cookies per sheet.
- Bake for 13 to 16 minutes or until golden brown around the edges. Allow to cool completely on the baking sheets.
Lemon Blueberry Protein Cookies FAQ’s
Using collagen in place of protein powder is a natural and easy way to make protein cookies! Organic grassfed collagen is tasteless and it has 7g of protein per serving!
Collagen adds protein to cookies. I love using this in place of protein powder because it's an organic single ingredient that is flavorless so you can add it to any cookies for added protein without a weird taste or suspect ingredients.
Yep! If you want to add protein to baked goods, you can use collagen instead of protein powder.
I have not tested this in these cookies. But, I don't see why it wouldn't work similarly.
No, this recipe is developed for dried blueberries only. Fresh blueberries have more moisture, so the recipe would have to accommodate that. If you want to try fresh blueberries, you may need more flour. If you're looking for cookies with fresh blueberries, try my Sourdough Blueberry Crumb Bars instead!
I use the lemon zest and mix it with the sugar, this helps create a strong lemon flavor.
Honey adds a sweetness to cookies and also gives them a golden color.
Well, these are a still a cookie! But, they do have added protein from collagen, so I think that's a bit healthier than not having it!
Same as regular cookies, they are best eaten within a week. But, you can also freeze them in an airtight container for up to 3 months!
Yes, just store in an airtight container and freeze for up to 3 months.
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Lemon Blueberry Protein Cookies With Collagen
Equipment
- Digital Food Scale
- Zester
- Stand Mixer
- Half Sheet Pan
Ingredients
- 113 grams salted butter (softened)
- 113 grams cane sugar
- 57 grams raw honey
- 1 teaspoon lemon flavor
- 1 lemon (zested)
- 2 large eggs
- 255 grams all purpose flour
- 28 grams grassfed collagen
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder (I used NuNaturals Organic Collagen)
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 226 grams dried blueberries
- Turbinado sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the butter, cane sugar, honey, and lemon zest. Mix on low until combined and there’s no butter chunks.
- Add the eggs, flour, collagen, baking powder and salt and mix together until a cookie dough forms.
- Add in the dried blueberries and mix together until combine completely.
- Using your hands (or a cookie scoop) fork the dough into 12 balls and place on the prepared baking sheets, spacing evenly apart.
- Sprinkle the tops of the cookie dough with turbinado sugar.
- Bake for 13 to 16 minutes or until golden brown around the edges. Allow to cool completely on the baking sheets.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
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Notes
- Make sure butter is soft, this is key for these cookies so they have the perfect soft and chewy texture!
- If you don't have dried blueberries, use another dried fruit like cranberries instead.
- If you want perfectly round cookies, use a cookie cutter and round them immediately after they come out of the oven!
- High Altitude — Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown around the edges.
Love that I can eat cookies and get the benefits of collagen at the same time!
These cookies are the bomb, and I don’t have any sweet tooth guilt after eating them 😋😋
These blueberry lemon protein cookies are so good! Just the right mix of sweet and lemon, with a soft texture—not dry like most protein snacks. Perfect for a quick, guilt-free treat!