Choc-berry brownies....very delicious

Choc-berry brownies....very delicious 

Choc-berry brownies....

Serves: 16 (makes 16 brownies)

Time to make: 40 mins (Hands-on time: 15 mins, Cooking time: 25 mins)

Total cost: $5.60 / $0.35 per serve

Ingredients

Oil Spray

80g reduced-fat spread, melted

1/2 cup packed soft brown sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup trim milk

1 ripe banana, mashed

1/3 cup cocoa powder

3/4 cup flour

1/2 cup self-raising flour

50g dark chocolate, chopped

150g frozen mixed berries

2 teaspoons (total) icing sugar and/or drinking-chocolate powder, to dust

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180°C. Coat a 20cm-square cake tin with a light spray of oil then line tin with baking paper.

Step 2

Beat spread and sugar with a wooden spoon. Add eggs and beat to combine. Fold milk, banana, cocoa and flours into egg mixture until just combined. Fold chocolate and berries into brownie mixture.

Step 3

Spoon mixture into tin and bake for 20-25 minutes or until firm to the touch. Leave cooked mixture to stand in tin for 10 minutes. Slice in 16 squares. Dust brownies with icing sugar and/or chocolate powder.

How we did it

• Halved the sugar and sweetened with a banana.
• Used 75 per cent less chocolate and added cocoa powder for richer flavour.
• Replaced butter with reduced-fat spread to lower saturated fat and kilojoules.
• Swapped walnuts for mixed berries to cut kilojoules.
• Used trim milk rather than dark-blue-top milk to cut fat.

You save

• 470kJ/113 cal
• 10g fat
• 4g sat fat
• 8g sugars

Variations

Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free flours and check cocoa powder, chocolate, icing sugar and drinking chocolate are gluten free.

- See more at: http://www.healthyfood.co.nz

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