Zucchini Brownies Recipe
Here's a creative - and delicious - way to use that extra zucchini in your fridge. This recipe is also a great way to sneak more vegetables into your diet.
Overview
Total time: 30 M 50 S
Servings: 20
Calories: 145
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 1/4 cup butter melted
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 medium zucchini trimmed and halved lengthwise
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. kosher or sea salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips for garnish (optional)
Nutritional Information
- Serving Size: 1 piece
- Fat: 3g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Cholesterol: 27mg
- Sodium: 235mg
- Carbohydrates: 27g
- Fiber: 1g
- Sugar: 17g
- Protein: 4g
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Add applesauce, butter, eggs, vanilla, sugar, cocoa, and zucchini to WildSide+ jar. Secure lid and select "Batter."
- Add flour, salt, and baking soda to jar. Secure lid and press "Pulse" 4–6 times or until all flour is incorporated.
- Pour into a greased 9-x-13-inch baking pan. Bake for 25–30 minutes.
- Remove from oven, and cover with chocolate chips, if desired.
Hi Pat, let the "Batters" cycle complete. Then remove jar lid, and add the flour, salt, and baking soda. Then press the "Pulse" button to incorporate the dry ingredients.
Whoa… there is a lot of sugar in here. I agree with the other poster who said the amount of sugar negates the benefit of the zucchini.
Some healthier substitutions to try:
** Replace 1/2 of the white sugar with 1/2 coconut sugar.
** Replace sugar with Stevia powder designed for baking. Stevia is a herb 300 times as sweet as sugar with a glycemic index (GI) of 0, meaning it will not affect blood sugar levels.
When cooking or baking with stevia powder, it is suggested to mix 1/8 teaspoon with 1 cup of unsweetened apple sauce. Because stevia is 200-300 times sweeter than sugar, you lose a lot of volume when replacing the sugar. The unsweetened apple sauce replaces this volume.
There is a conversion chart at: http://www.steviva.com/abou…
** To cut the fat content
- use 2 egg whites to replace one whole egg
- use applesauce or baby food prunes to replace butter
** Substitute coconut oil for butter
** Replace white flour with
- whole wheat flour
- or 1/2 white 1/2 whole wheat flour
~~ or Robin Hood Nutri Flour Blend™ Gluten Free. A gluten free all purpose flour blend made from rice flour with sugar beet fibre and potato and tapioca starches. It is also a source of fibre.
~~ or Robin Hood Nutri Flour Blend™ Omega-3 & Fibre Mutrigrain flour with Omega’s. It is an all purpose flour blend made from whole wheat flour and flax seeds.
- or any combination of the above.
Happy Baking!
why would you want to replace 2 egg whites for a whole egg? The yolk is the healthiest part of the egg people! Egg yolks are a GOOD fat, not a bad fat. We need good fats in our diet such as egg yolks, coconut oil, and avocados etc.!
These were very good. I say the more zucchini the better. It definitely needed the chocolate chips on top since it was more of a cake type brownie than gooey.
Blendtec what say you about the proper amount for a "medium" zucchini? This information would be helpful. Mine brownies also came out like a cake, but very tasty. I added walnuts. I didn’t have chocolate chips on hand so I broke up a bar of "Patric’s Mizzou Chocolate". Worked fine!
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