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.
Applesauce is used in place of oil.
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!
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.
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.!
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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