Low Fat Fudge Brownies Recipe 445

Steps:

• 1. PREHEAT the oven to 350°F. Grease a 13" x 9" baking pan. 2. COMBINE the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. 3. BEAT the egg whites until foamy in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed. Gently stir in the eggs, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until well-combined. Blend in the applesauce and vanilla extract. Stir in the flour mixture. Stir in the walnuts. 4. SPREAD into the prepared pan. Bake for 30 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Do not over bake. Cool in the pan on a rack. Dust the confectioners' sugar over the brownies. NUTRITION (per serving) 72 cal, 2 g pro, 14 g carb, 1 g fiber, 1.9 g fat, 0.4 g sat fat, 38 mg sodium

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a baking pan with cooking spray.
• In a small saucepan, combine the butter and chopped chocolate and set over very low heat until melted. Stir the mixture and set aside to cool. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Measure the sugar into the large bowl of an electric mixer and beat in the cooled butter-chocolate mixture. Add the egg plus whites, vanilla, and water and beat well. Add the dry ingredients and mix on low speed just until blended. Don't overbeat. The batter will be thick. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, smooth the top, and bake for 22 to 25 minutes; 23 minutes is usually right for me. When done, the top will look dry and a wooden pick inserted near the edge will come out with a few crumbs but the center will look slightly gooey. Cool in the pan and cut into squares.
• I have been trying for a couple of years to produce a brownie worthy of the name with less fat and less solid chocolate. My taste testers finally agree that this is it - a great brownie they would never suspect of being lower in anything. I have cut the classic 58 percent down to 31 percent calories from fat and eliminated 87 calories, 10 g fat, and 22 mg cholesterol from each brownie.
• When traditional proportions are disrupted, textures become moist and cakey at best or dry, insipid, and tough at worst. One rule emerges clearly: The fewer ingredients, the better the brownie. Avoid the usual low-fat stand-ins: applesauce, yogurt, corn syrup, canola oil. Use butter, but less, and replace most of the solid chocolate with rich-tasting Dutch-processed cocoa; retain at least 1 ounce of solid chocolate, however, for a more complex chocolate taste. A few tricks: Cake flour produced a more tender crumb than all-purpose, and melting the butter with the chocolate, as opposed to creaming the solid butter with the sugar, gave a fudgier crumb. A touch of baking powder seems to enhance the crunch of the top crust.
• Faced with the choice of adding high-fat chopped nuts or keeping the 1/4 cup butter, there was no contest; nuts put us over the top in fat content. However, if you feel deprived without them, sprinkle about 3 tablespoons of finely chopped walnuts on top before baking; the changes are modest: 33 percent calories from fat, plus 9 calories and 1g fat per brownie.

Steps:

• Position the rack in lower third of the oven and preheat to 350°F Spray the pan with vegetable oil spray.
• Stir together flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder with a whisk.
• Melt butter in medium saucepan. Off the heat, stir in the sugar until combined (texture will remain sandy). Add the egg, egg whites, vanilla, and dissolved espresso powder. Beat with a wooden spoon about 40 strokes, scraped side of pan as necessary.
• Add the dry ingredients and beat for another 40 strokes, or until completely mixed. Scrape mixture into prepared pan. Spread evenly.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out a little gooey. Cool on a rack. Cut into 16 squares.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Spray an 8 inch square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
• Dust with cocoa, shaking out excess.
• In a small saucepan, melt margarine on low heat.
• Remove from heat and stir in cocoa, sugar, egg, applesauce and vanilla, beating until smooth.
• Gently stir in flour, baking soda and salt until well combined.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes or until set.
• Cool completely and cut in 16 squares with hot wet knife.
• Store in the refrigerator.