Eggless Wheat Brownies
Brownies with a drizzle of chocolate sauce or topped with walnuts or almonds or served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and topped with hot chocolate sauce is heavenly, isn’t it? And when you know that the brownies are made with whole wheat flour and brown sugar, the guilt factor is reduced further, right? You can check my earlier post on brownies with all purpose flour. The apple sauce in this recipe gives these brownies a nice flaky crust. If you do not like your brownies to be very fudgy, bake it for few more minutes. I have used a 240 ml cup.
Ingredients:
- Whole wheat flour 100 gm
- Cocoa powder 25 gm
- Salt a pinch
- Baking powder 1/2 tsp
- Demerera sugar 75 gm
- Milk 1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp
- Dark chocolate 75 gm
- Butter 75 gm
- Apple sauce 1/2 cup
- Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp
Method:
- Preheat your oven at 150-160 degree Celsius for 10 minutes.
- Line a 7 by 7 square cake tin with parchment paper in such a way that the paper overflows the tin. Grease it lightly.
- Chop the chocolate into small pieces.
- Heat the butter and add the chocolate pieces till it melts.
- Remove from fire and add 1/4 cup milk and sugar and mix well. Now add the applesauce and mix.
- When the sugar melts, add the vanilla extract and mix well.
- Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder 6-7 times.
- Add the dry ingredients slowly into the liquid mixture in 2-3 batches and fold it gently.
- Add a spoon or two of more milk and mix. Do not over mix.
- Pour this batter into the prepared cake tin and tap in gently to remove air bubbles if any.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out with very few moist crumbs.
- Remove the tin from the oven and allow it to cool.
- When it is fully cooled slice into desired size and enjoy with a scoop of icecream drizzled with hot chocolate sauce or drizzle it with butterscotch sauce.
Notes:
- To get 1/2 cup applesauce : Peel the skin of 1 apple and then chop into small pieces. Boil it with one tablespoon of water and cook till it is soft. Mash it well with a fork or masher. Your apple sauce is ready. You may add a pinch of cinnamon and a spoonful of sugar if desired.
- You may sprinkle the brownies with chopped almonds or walnuts or chocochips for an added crunch.
- To get perfect neat sizes of brownies:
- Slice the brownies only after they are fully cooled. You may refrigerate them if you feel for an hour.
- Use straight walled caken tin rather than a slanted one.
- Always line the tin with parchment paper and get the parchment paper over flow from the tin, so that you can easily take it out of the tin and slice then by keeping the paper on a wooden board.
- Use sharp serated knife to slice the brownies.
- After each cut, wipe the knife clean so that the crumbs don’t stick to them.
- You can trim off the edges and use a ruler to mark 2 x 2 and then slice them.
Is ths sweetness enuf ?..can i add egg in place of milk ?
Egg is not a milk replacement. You may please follow a recipe with eggs. My family prefers less sweet
Any substitute for Demerera sugar?
Use Normal sugar or cane sugar
Delicious
Thanks Ruchi