A sweet and tarty Cinnamon Cranberry Protein Cake loaded with fresh cranberries for a great winter dessert recipe! This healthy cranberry cake uses protein powder, monkfruit and Greek yogurt, has no eggs, butter or oil, and is gluten free too.

My first time using fresh cranberries in a baking recipe, and I loved it! Sweet cinnamony protein cake with the sharp flavor of the cranberries.. It really all goes so well together.

Also texture? Soft and fluffy cake, but without any of the oil and butter that usual cakes use. The Greek yogurt really does wonders here in this cranberry dessert.

Ingredients for Cinnamon Cranberry Protein Cake

This cinnamon cranberry protein cake is made with a few healthy ingredients, and has no eggs, no oil, no sugar and gluten free too!

Vanilla Protein Powder needed for a high protein cake and also replaces most of the ‘sugar’.
I used Vanilla protein powder from Quest Nutrition.
Gluten Free (All Purpose) Baking Flour – or a regular all purpose flour
1:1 Zero Calorie Sugar Substitute – I use Lakanto, to keep this recipe sugar free; (code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here too)
Peanut Butter Powder, also known as Powdered Peanut Butter. I recommend Lakanto for a sugar free version (the code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount). Or you could use the one from PbFit too.
Non-fat Greek Yogurt contributes to the oil-free part of these high protein low calorie protein cake since it adds the moisture, and also extra protein
Ground Cinnamon
Cinnamon-flavored Almond Butter: I used American Dream Nut Butter Cinnamon Toasties Almond Butter since it’s lower in fat and high in protein too,
(Code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here too)
Almond Milk or regular milk
Baking Soda

And then for the actual cranberry breakfast cake part:

Fresh Cranberries! This recipe uses whole fresh cranberries in baking this cake.
A bit of extra flour to coat the berries
Extra Cinnamon Almond Butter for topping

Tips for perfect Cranberry Protein Powder Cake

This cranberry protein powder cake is really easy to make, and here’s some pointers to get it right.

Use room temperature milk and yogurt;
This is so the wet ingredients and dry ingredients can mix well.

Room temperature creamy almond butter so it mixes well too and does not clump.

Don’t over-mix the batter!
Make sure you gently fold the dry mix into the wet to combine them.
If you over-mix it, the protein powder will make the cinnamon cranberry cake tough, dense and gummy.

Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have low sugar cranberry dessert recipe.

How to make Prevent Fresh Cranberries from Sinking in the Cake

This low sugar cranberry cake recipe is baked with fresh cranberries and you want to make sure it doesn’t all sink to the bottom of the pan.

To prevent cranberries from sinking to the bottom of the snack cake, toss them in a bit of flour before mixing into the batter.

How to store Cinnamon Cranberry Breakfast Cake?

This high protein low sugar cranberry cake recipe keeps well for a meal prep dessert or post workout snack and is freezer friendly too!

Store protein cranberry snack cake at room temperature in an airtight container for 1-2 days or in the fridge for a week.

To freeze healthy cranberry protein powder cake, individually wrap each protein cake piece in plastic wrap and place in freezer-safe zipper bags or air tight container; They should keep for 2-3 months.

Alternatives for Healthy Cranberry Cake with Yogurt and Fresh Cranberries

For the perfect healthy cranberry cake, I would highly suggest using the ingredients and brands I recommended; I do have some alternatives you can try.
I haven’t testing them all so I can’t say how your recipe might turn out, but I’d love to know if you do!

1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour: All purpose flour or Whole Wheat Pastry Flour; The same amount by weight, not cups.
Whey-Caesin Protein Powder: ½ Whey + ½ Whey-Caesin, but use ⅓ cup milk only.
Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt
Almond Milk: Any other milk
1:1 Zero Calorie Sugar Replacement: Regular confectioners sugar or coconut sugar (this won’t be sugar free though, and also higher in calories)
Peanut Butter Powder: 2 Tbsp Regular Peanut Butter, but reduce the milk to about ¼ cup (I haven’t tried this yet though)
Cinnamon Almond Butter: Regular Almond Butter, or Cashew Butter, Hazelnut Butter or Tahini

To make Vegan Cranberry Cake

For a Vegan protein cranberry cake recipe, use coconut yogurt in place of Green Yogurt and also a plant based protein powder.
ProteinWorld has a Vegan protein blend (HAYLSKITCHEN for the discount here too) that would work well here.
I haven’t tried pea protein or other plant based ones, so I can’t say how those would work.

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