No fat chocolate brownie - recipe!

I love to bake, as do most of the women in my family.  I was talking about baking to one of my sister in law's yesterday, the one who is 7 months pregnant, who said she was craving sweet sweet sweet (to which I thought "the only time I didn't crave sweet was when I was pregnant!"), and therefore baking a LOT!  This would be fine, but she is a little concerned that maybe she doesn't need all the fat that comes with sweet baking, and my brother doesn't either - and this reminded me of a great recipe I found years ago.

This recipe I found when I was working in admin at the hospital in Ballarat.  Each week a group of us secretaries would gather for a morning cuppa and we would take it in turns bringing in morning tea to share.  Now I've always been able to cook, but 10 years ago I did hardly any baking as it was just the two of us.  I was the youngest in the group and so I watched week after week as the others brought in perfect scones, slices, cakes, friands and biscuits baked by them (mostly).  And each week, they would all lament that these morsels of yumminess would do horrible things for their diets.  And then it was my turn.  I was a little daunted by the task, and wanted to be able to bake something yummy and also not too terrible for us and I found this recipe.... No Fat Chocolate Brownies.  And guess what?  they're easy peasy and DE-licious!  They are not truly low cal (about 85 cal per serve according to the original recipe), but with no butter or oil, they are at least better than many other options. 

Ready to try 'em?  Here you go!

Ingredients

2 medium cooking apples
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 tsp baking/bicarb soda
2 egg whites (or if you don't mind "low fat" instead of "no fat", just chuck in the yolks too)
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup cocoa

How to do it

Peel, core and chop your apples and cook them with a little water (microwave or stove top) until soft.  Smash them up a bit with your wooden spoon and set aside.

Preheat the oven to 180 C and line a 20cm square pan with baking paper.

Mix together your cooked apples (it should be about 2/3 cup - no stress if its not exact, but try to get close) with all of your other ingredients.

Pour into the pan and spread out.

Bake for 20-30min until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before gently removing from the pan.

The original recipe said to cut into 8 squares, but I cut into 9 and use the 9th one as a taste test :P

YUM!!