I feel like chocolate and coconut is one of those highly underrated combinations. I always do chocolate and peanut butter, but chocolate and coconut is pretty dang awesome. In fact, German Chocolate Cake is one of my favorite cakes because it has chocolate and coconut! These chocolate coconut protein bites are sure to please! 

The base of these, as you’d expect, has some chocolate protein powder. They can’t be chocolate coconut protein bites without chocolate protein powder. I used BSN Syntha-6 Chocolate Milkshake. For more chocolate flavor (because you can never have too much chocolate in my opinion), I added some melted dark chocolate chips and cocoa powder. 

The coconut flavor comes from, you guessed it, coconut. I used the unsweetened shredded coconut to lower the sugars and calories from typical sweetened coconut. In addition to the shredded cocoa powder, I added some melted coconut oil. This helped the balls to mix up a little better, and give a more dense, fudge-like texture. And, it added a nice little extra hint of coconut flavor. 

Protein bites like these are definitely one of my favorite go-to snacks to make. They are so easy to make, and then perfect to store in the fridge and grab whenever you need a little snack. Heck, I have even crumbled them up and put them in my oatmeal before. There are so many delicious variations you can make too!

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