I tried the Black Bean Brownies Recipies

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Pat,

 

I tried the black bean brownies. This was the maiden voyage. The taste is

great and it is nice to have a low fat healthier dessert with this gall bladder

diet that I am on. However, I would try doing a few things differently:

 

1. The box called for a 9 X 13 inch pan--I would put it in a 9 X 9 inch pan so

the batter is less spread out.

 

2. I used a glass baking pan, baked them at 325 F in my convection oven [you

always reduce the temperature by 25 degrees in a convection oven--normal baking

temperature would be 350 F. I want to try a metal pan. The glass may have

overcooked them slightly. For one thing, they continue to cook a long time

after you remove them from the oven.

 

3. I want to try making them from scratch with the canned beans. I have a

basic recipe that uses cocoa [to which you add eggs & oil] which I have figured

out is what those expensive mixes are made from.

 

4. Eventually I want to cook the beans, too, from scratch. However, those of

us who are bakers know that it is all about the proportions, so I will need to

do a little experimenting. If and when I come up with a " scratch " recipe, I

will post it.

 

My husband, who is diabetic, hung around until they cooled so he could have a

taste.

 

I have forwarded the recipe to one of my staff who is a chocoholic and a

vegetarian. She is a great baker and is always trying new ways of making

traditional American sweets healthier. For my birthday she made me an orange

chiffon cake [from scratch, of course] that she served with fresh strawberries

-- it was divine tasting.

 

Kathleen

Eureka CA

 

 

Pat <drpatsant wrote:

That's nice news! Have you tried the recipe yet? Wish I could, but not

possible :-(

 

Best love, Pat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hurrah!

I am glad they turned out to be good!

Tina

 

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I tried the black bean brownies. This was the maiden voyage. The taste is

great and it is nice to have a low fat healthier dessert with this gall

bladder diet that I am on. However, I would try doing a few things

differently. . .