Double Chocolate Zucchini Brownies (adapted from www.skinnychef.com )
Sweet Mother of God. You must make these brownies. Get thee to a farmer’s market, snatch up some zucchini, and BAKE, DAMMIT! Just listen to me and take a gander at the pics. I know throwing a vegetable into a chocolate chunk of love seems like a travesty of all that is gooey, chocolate, and comforting. BUT trust me. I may not be as big as I used to be, but I still categorize myself as a Big Girl. If you trust nothing else, trust the food that comes from this Big Girl’s kitchen. I will certainly make these once my son starts preschool this fall. I see a lunchbox treat in the making!
Ingredients
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 8×8-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
- Place chocolate in microwave (30 seconds to 1 minute) until melted. Cool slightly.
- In a large bowl, mix together the oil, egg, sugar, vanilla and melted chocolate until well blended.
- Stir in the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
- Fold in the zucchini and nuts and spread evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the pan. Cool completely in the pan and cut into squares. Store in an air-tight container for up to 3 days. Makes 12, 1.5 ounce brownies
Notes:
Chocolate: I made this on a spur of the moment and had to accept that Wal-Mart only has so much to offer in regards to chocolate. Those in the chocolate world may cringe, but the best I could do was one of those super-size Hershey Special Dark bars. I used my handy 10-inch butcher knife to chop it up.
Flavoring: The original recipe called for cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice. I have a tough time stomaching the taste of cinnamon outside of a few recipes. I don’t even want to discuss pumpkin pie spice. This one? I couldn’t make myself put in either spice. I’m sure if you’re a lover of all that’s cinnamon, you’ll like one, the other, or both. The Skinny Chef called for 1 tsp of that stuff.
Batter: Not unlike the zucchini fritters also adapted from the Skinny Chef, this batter will be unbelievably dry and tough until you add the shredded zucchini. Do NOT despair and do NOT add any other moisture. And for all that’s holy USE YOUR HANDS to combine the batter with the zucchini. It’ll be messy but so much easier and “mother earth” than using some new-fangled spoon thing.
Zucchini: This lovely stuff adds so much moisture to the brownies. No cake-like texture in THIS recipe! No no no! And fiber. My brothers and sisters, you can eat these suckers with the knowledge that you’re getting some FIBER. For real. Amazing stuff, I tell ya.
Nuts: I didn’t put any in here because the kid gets ookey about what he calls “creepy” textures. Yeah. He’s four and uses the word “creepy” to describe things. Just roll with it. That’s what I do.
Cook time: I must confess that I only cooked these for 20 minutes and liked the texture of what came out of my oven. Some people are zealots when following a recipe. I follow my gut.
Variations:
Change up the nuts or leave them out.
Add chunks of chocolate.
Feedback:
Both the husband and the kid were salivating when I pulled these suckers out of the oven. I used the oven timer because we were eating dinner while they were cooking. When the beeper went off, my son flew into the kitchen. Note: He hadn't eaten his dinner and was summarily sent back after being allowed to inhale all that is chocolate and top-secret zucchini. I didn't tell him these suckers had vegetables in them and never will!
8 comments:
being a diabetic this is something i can't try but might make it for babs this winter..and not tell her there are zucchini in them till she ate them..ahahahahahah
You can try a little of 'em, Jackie! You CAN. Trust me on this. I will get the nutritional breakdown for you.
Sounds pretty easy to make, like it.
I will have to give this a try this week and I will let you know how it goes.
I will have to keep the "secret ingredient" a secret or my kids won't eat these.
I feel like I am breaking a rule, being bad or something like that...love you and love how you break things down sharing your little tidbits of info and funny family side stories.
As I told you last night - YUM and FUN! I had no idea you could put zucchini in brownies and actually EAT them, much less LOVE them. The whole family ate the STINK out of these. Savvy and I are having them for breakfast. And as I mentioned, Savvy LOVED LOVED LOVED the mixing by hand part!
Going door to door on my street looking for more zucchini!
I admit that I was skeptical, but I had some zucchini to use up and I figured it was worth a shot.
OMG THESE ARE SO AMAZING. OMG WOW.
WOW.
Thank you, Buddha Girl. I didn't make them until after the twins went to bed, but they are going to be so surprised and so happy when their normally mean mom lets them have dessert tomorrow night :).
One thing: I cut the sugar from 1 c. to 1/2 c. b/c I find that most brownie recipes taste to sweet and not chocolately enough for me. Clearly I thought they were JUST FINE with only half the recommended sugar.
Snick, I'm so glad you thought to half the sugar. I'm going to try that next time. I bet the chocolate flavor was shining and deep!
You're preaching to the converted dear. ;) My CW makes a ridiculous chocolate zucchini bread that kicks ass. I will definitely put this on the must try list.
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