Aspie Home Cooking: Whole Wheat Cacao Brownies
Today I made some whole wheat Cacao Brownies from scratch. The recipe is based on a cookbook recipe I modified.
What you need:
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/3 cup unsweetened organic cacao powder
1/2 teaspoon corn starch
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate, can be chunks or chips
4 tablespoons light butter with olive oil
1 cup sugar (I like Florida Crystals organic sugar)
2 large eggs
1 large egg white
1 and a half teaspoons vanilla extract
Before you begin, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Start with mixing together the cacao powder, whole wheat flour, cinnamon, salt, sugar and corn starch really well in a medium sized bowl.
Then you should melt the chocolate chips and butter together in a small pan on low heat. While you're doing that, add the vanilla extract, eggs and egg white into your medium bowl and mix really well with a wooden or plastic spoon.
Once your chocolate chips and butter are melted, add that into your mix and stir really well.
Spray an 8 inch* square pan with non-stick coconut cooking oil and spread your batter in the pan. Place it in the oven for about 25 minutes and then take it out and let it cool before cutting between 12 and 16 brownies.
I have to say it's got a nice taste to it overall. Not nearly as sugary as store bought but still sweet and choco-tastic (Damn you Dr. Nick). If y'all decide to try this for yourselves, let me know how it goes.
See ya around,
Aspie
* If you want something closer to brownie brittle, you can use an 8 inch by 12 inch pan instead
Comments
Hey Aspie
Those sound yummy.
Wish I could cook.
I want a Pony!
I wish my oven still worked.
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melting chocolate
A double-boiler or bain Marie is helpful for that.
If one doesn't have dedicated equipment for that, the solution is simple: fill a big pan about 3/4 full of water and bring to a boil. Minimize heat to the minimum necessary to sustain boil. Place the smaller pan (with the chocolate et al. in it) into the boiling water in the larger pan. Voilá! Melted but not burned chocolate!
(This is the specified method of melting the chocolate for my French Silk Chocolate Mint Pie recipe.)
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That sounds like making fondue.
Still, I'll have to look for something like that. Thanks for the tip.
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It's actually a protection for the chocolate.
Especially when you are cooking on an electric stovetop.
And you're welcome!
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Great clip
Like cinnamon in hot chocolate, never thought to add to the brownies. Good Cooking
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Do you have the calorie count and nutritional content?
How many servings does it make?
I haven't had a piece of chocolate since November 2016. Yesterday, I had to go to the drug store. I bought a dark chocolate Hershey Bar. OMG, I sat in my car with my eyes closed and ate the whole thing. No way I was driving and missing a minute of the bliss. Chocolate and pizza - not together - are my two favorite foods. I could live on nothing but.
Your recipe sounds great.
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This one makes between 12 and 16.
As for the nutritional content, I'm not entirely sure on that. Probably somewhere between 150 or 200 calories and a few grams of fiber given that these are whole wheat brownies.
Here's the light butter with olive oil I use.
And here's the whole wheat flour.
And the organic cacao powder
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
What is light butter with olive oil? Never heard of it.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I used to make brownies with Hershey's unsweetened
baking chocolate. They don't make it anymore. Those were good brownies!
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I actually used Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips.
I didn't really see any baking chocolate when I went shopping but the chips certainly worked well.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Except for Baker's, unsweetened baking chocolate is
scarce as hens' teeth. I don't like the flavor of Baker's.
Ghirardelli makes an unsweetened baking chocolate, Bu I can't always find it. You found a good substitute.
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Thanks. An interesting recipe. I don't think that I'll
try it, but I will try putting some cinnamon in my next couple of batches of some of my brownie recipes.
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