With stevia being the new sugar! It's still the same as all the fake sugars out there. I don't know if you ever had the real stevia because it comes in a liquid and a tincture. And has the taste of black licorice. The stuff over the counter is not real stevia. With saying that, there's such little stevia in it, is it good to just leave it out?

A lot has to do with temperature. You could put in the refrigerator for a short time to make it workable.

Adding the melted coconut oil made it nothing buy a soupy mess. I had to add a ton more whey powder to make it thicker.

Those modifications would work but other changes would be needed.

Also, have you ever used food grade vegetable glycerin in any of your protein bars?

I also used a small cookie dough dishes and put each scoop in a mini muffin pan with liners. This made 30 “cookies” rather than 15 bars, but I didn’t need to cut them 🙂

I'll have to give that a try! Thanks for sharing the modification!

These were surprisingly delicious! Never used whey powder before to bake with. I omitted the seeds and stevia, and used creamy peanut butter because that's what I had. The mixture was a bit wet for my liking. But using the coconut oil and then refrigerating really set them up nicely. Thanks so much for this!

Butter should be fine to use. The coconut isn't essential to the recipe. You could replace it with some nuts or seeds if you'd like.

I made mine with lightly salted & roasted pumpkin seeds - I love the the toasty, mildly salty flavor in with the sweet. I had to wrap individual bars & freeze... because I "May have" finished off 4 bars in one day. So darned good! Thank you!