Tonight I had a hankering for brownies. I had a mix in the cupboard but didn’t want
full fat. I was out of black beans but I
did have applesauce. I’ve heard that a
lot of people swap applesauce for oil when making cakes and other baked goods
so I did a little online research and sure enough, found you can do it with
brownies too. The posts I found
suggested doubling the amount. If your mix calls for ¼ cup of oil, use ½ a cup
of applesauce.
Ingredients:
1 box brownie mix
2 eggs
¼ cup water
1 cup of unsweetened apple sauce
Preheat oven to 325 and grease a cake pan. Mix your ingredients according to the
directions. Bake.
I decided to get crazy and mix up a serving of PB2 and add a little
peanut butter to half the brownies for some fun flavor. PB2 is a healthier version of peanut butter
(40 calories versus 190 and minimal fat).
You take two tablespoons of the powder and mix with 1 tablespoon of
water. I mixed that together and added a
few dollops to the brownies.
The batter tasted normal and they looked fine when I put them in the
oven. I baked for the required time and took them out. They looked a little “bubbly”. Like there were little mini air-holes in the
batter. They taste pretty good. Obviously not the same chewy consistency of
normal brownies but like brownies just the same. And I knew they were so much healthier for
me. I think next time I would bake them
in an 8x8 pan instead of a 9 x 13 so they were a little thicker.
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