Healthier Brownie Recipe

As part of the conversion of my researching blog into a more conventional format like everyone else's, I now bring to you a recipe!

Had a craving for junk but since I am trying to lose eight pounds by March to be down to my racing weight, I decided to bake something less frighteningly bad.

This recipe comes out, well, just okay. I prefer fudgy crispy on the outside brownies, and this just ain't it. It's more like a dense vegan cake, but perfectly acceptable, given that it's not loaded with butter, but it still has full sugar.

Compromise Brownie

1/2 cup coconut oil, liquefied
1/2 cup applesauce
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oat bran
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 9x13 baking dish with parchment paper sprayed with oil.

Combine the melted coconut oil, applesauce, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each, until thoroughly blended.

Sift together the whole wheat flour, oat bran, cocoa powder, and salt. Gradually stir the flour/oat mixture into the chocolate mixture until blended. Stir in the chocolate morsels. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared baking dish. The batter will not be very thick, but will be more like cake batter.

Bake in preheated oven until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, 50-60 minutes. Remove, and cool pan on wire rack before cutting.