Loth's Beany Brownies revisited

[primsong]

This must be the week for food entries. I completely blame lothithil, who put up her intriguing recipe with it's sekkrit ingredient right over here - now I have a pan of these cooling on the countertop and would love to see what other variations folks might come up with.

Here's what I tried:

INGREDIENTS
4 T. butter, melted
12 T. unsweetened chocolate powder
1 cup Splenda
1/4 c. egg beaters
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 15 oz. can black beans blended with 1 t. cinnamon

Blend the undrained can of beans in your blender with the cinnamon and stir the butter, vanilla and eggbeaters into it, then mix with the dry ingredients - see Loth's post, which uses boxed brownie mix.

It was pretty stiff, which is why I added one egg's worth of egg-beaters, could probably have used 1/2 c. instead. I only used as much butter as I needed for the cocoa powder to be equivalent with chocolate squares. Spread it with a spatula in a pam-sprayed baking dish and baked at 350 for 12 minutes.

Thoughts: Hm, nom nom - Could probably have gone with 2-3 eggbeaters worth instead of one, and I would consider flirting with some chopped pecans as well, though the baking time would need to be increased if there were more moisture of course. Needs slightly more chocolate maybe - otherwise quite tasty for something 'healthy' and rapidly disappearing even as I type!

I don't usually use that much Splenda in one go, but my DH can't have any sugar and we didn't want to leave him out. I would recommend half Splenda half fructose or similar for better flavor.

Comments

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Cheers! I'm glad to hear that the brownies are--if not a rousing success--a rapidly disappearing treat :D

BTW, I once made a red velvet cake (sans icing) with a can of pumpkin instead of oil and egg. It was ... different... and I did eat all the evidence! lol

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes these substitution things don't quite jive, but this one works very well. I wonder if something like sugar-free pudding mix might be employed to make a frosting for them, should any be inclined.

What we found out last night was they were DIVINE with a couple spoonfuls of no-sugar vanilla ice cream.

[shirebound]

Egg beaters, whole wheat flour, and Splenda! What a great idea.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I almost never use 'real' eggs or white flour for much of anything anymore, so it's partly just a quirk of being in my kitchen. :-) I love how this recipe cuts out a lot of oil/butter but the flavor still tastes brownie-like unlike when I tried using applesauce in a similar way in the past.