Dark Chocolate Almond Brownies

Makes 16 servings.

ooooooooooh these are good! Nothing beats a moist brownie, even better, cover it in chocolate sauce and sprinkle it with icing sugar. Or just eat it straight out of the pan, whatever floats your boat...

2 cups flour of choice, try mixing spelt and regular flours

100g ground almonds

   (1 small package) 

1 cup lightly packed brown sugar

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 1/4 cups milk of choice
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla

100g dark chocolate (5 squares)

Heat oven to 380 degrees. Spray and flour your baking tin. Mix flour, almonds, cocoa and baking powder in a large bowl. Add applesauce, milk, oil and vanilla, and stir well to blend. Pour in melted chocolate, and blend batter well to ensure all lumps are gone. Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out done. The brownies will look very dense, but so long as the toothpick comes out clean you're good to go!

Note: if keeping this recipe vegan, be sure to check your dark chocolate for dairy - I used a PC-brand pure dark chocolate bar here. Also, consider warming the soymilk and disolving 1 Tbsp of quality instant coffee (is there such thing?!? fellow coffee snobs, you know what I'm sayin) in it to make mocha almond brownies. You could also bake this in a cake tin, it has the texture of flourless cake to some extent even though there is flour in it.

Per serving: 234 cals, 10g fat, 34g carbs, 16mg sodium, 2g fiber, 4g protein.  (PRO7%,CHO56%,FAT37%)