I am really excited to take part in
The Nourishing Sweets and Treats Carnival at
The Nourishing Gourmet. I was inspired by Kimi's post about
Natural sweeteners and decided try and revamp one of our favorite Brownie recipes ( I say
one because we have
another super good one...I'll share that later).
I remember Laura of
Heavenly Homemakers saying that you have not really tasted a brownie if you have not eaten one made with
rapadura. So
rapadura was my sweetener of choice for this recipe. And she was not wrong...it was DELICIOUS!
Delicious Brownies
3 eggs
1/2 cup butter (organic, unsalted)
1/4 cup vegetable oil (I used Grape seed oil - but believe Palm oil would work well too)
2 cups rapadura
1/2 Tablespoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour (we used freshly ground wheat - superb!)
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp. salt
Combine eggs, butter, oil, rapadura, and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Add flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Stir until well blended.
Evenly spread batter in a greased 8 x 8 pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F for about 25 to 30 minutes. Watch carefully after 20 minutes as you don't want these to overbake.
Allow to cool for a few minutes...then taste the chocolatey goodness.
Yum!
I got a little over excited by all this and tried out a number of things I want to share with you here: Apple crumble, cranberry chocolate cookies, and raw fruit and nut cream! Time is running short for me tonight, hopefully I will get those posted in the morning.
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