Hi! Hi! Hi! Is anybody still lurking around this abandoned blog? I wish I had posted at least once a week, that was my plan initially, but we all know that executing a plan is not as easy as we think it is. So here I am nearly after 2 months of my last post. We recently bought our first home and it has taken me so much time to settle down and I went on a baking spree last week after 4 months. So you can expect a couple of interesting egg free baking recipes in the days to come.
It all started with this "Nearly No Fat Fudge Brownie" recipe I found in the yogurt container. A baking recipe couldn't possibly be any simpler. I had all the ingredients at home and it was already egg free; so I was good to go. This is also a one bowl recipe if you have a large microwave safe bowl. If you are a regular follower of this blog you would know that I try to bake healthy; include a lot of whole grains, reduce the quantity of fat, sugar. So our taste buds have accustomed pretty good. The brownies tasted very good. We did not miss the fat at all. It was chewy and fudgy. Maybe those with a sweeter tooth can increase the quantity of sugar to 3/4th cup, but it was fine for us.
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Almost Fat Free Fudge Brownies Recipe
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25 Mins
One 8x8 inch pan (16 squares)
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Madhuram
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Almost Fat Free Brownies4.6 from 18 reviews
Check out this awesome recipe for almost fat free brownies!
Dry Ingredients:
3/4 cupAll Purpose Flour
1/2 cupGranulated Sugar
1/2 cupCocoa Powder
1/2 teaspoonBaking Soda
1/2 cupChopped Pecans (or any other nuts optional)
Wet Ingredients:
1/2 cupSemi Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cupPlain Yogurt (I used fat free)
1/2 cupWater
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Lightly grease an 8x8 inch square pan and line it with aluminum foil, with some extra foil hanging around the edges so that it is easy to lift the brownie. You wouldn't believe how much time saving and mess free is this simple step of lining with foil.
In a large microwave bowl melt the chocolate chips. It took about 45 seconds for the chocolate to melt. Do not set the time all at once, melt it in increments of 15-20 seconds because the cooking time in microwave ovens differ from one to another. Use a whisk to stir the melted chocolate to see that its smooth. Let this stand for a minute or two.
To the melted chocolate add the yogurt and sugar; mix until combined.
Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and nuts (if using) and stir until just combined.
To this mixture add water and stir carefully until the batter comes together. This batter looked more like a cake batter.
The original recipe mentions to bake the brownies between 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Mine actually took 32 minutes. So start with the minimum amount of time mentioned in the recipe and increase the time in small increments if it doesn't bake.
Remove the pan from the oven and leave it on a cooling rack for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes carefully lift the foil and let the brownies cool completely before you can cut it. If you don't use the aluminum foil the cooling time will be much longer. You would have to leave it overnight too. I was able to cut it beautifully within 2 hours.
My Notes:
If you have a sweet tooth I would suggest increasing the quantity of sugar to 3/4th of a cup. I also felt a mild sourness from the yogurt (my husband and son did not notice it). So I think the increased quantity of sugar will mask that too.
If you do not want to increase the quantity of sugar try testing/tasting the yogurt before hand. The original recipe had mentioned to use Balkan style yogurt, maybe that isn't as sour as the plain yogurt I used. I have tried the Stoneyfield organic yogurt and it is not sour at all (at least immediately after opening). Maybe you could try that in this recipe.
Update: Forgot to write this point before. I was not sure if the melted chocolate mixture would curdle if I immediately added yogurt to it. So I waited for about 5 minutes after I melted the chocolate in the microwave oven before adding the yogurt. To be even more sure I first mixed the sugar to melted chocolate; mixed it well and then added the yogurt.
Hi!!
I am following your blog since 6 mnths. Was hoping to learn eggless baking but from quite some time there wasn’t any post. Sigh. But when yestrday I saw those tastiest brownies, I made them tonight & they were the best brownies I ever had and moreover guilt free!! Thanks for the resipe. (I wanted to share the photos but couldn’t figure out how.)
Thank you so much Arti for trying the recipe. That was very quick. I think the quickest ever somebody has tried a recipe I have posted. Please do send me the pictures to my email ID admin(at)egglesscooking(dot)com and I will publish it here.
This looks GREAT! Would you recommend trying this with whole wheat pastry flour (instead of all purpose flour)?
I’ll probably bake it with sucanat ground up (unprocessed sugar, basically).
Deepa
I would have definitely tried it with WWPF if I had it. We are used to WWPF so much that we hardly find it any different.
Thanks for posting a recipe that my whole family can enjoy!! Low fat for me and egg-free for my little one! Excited to try this out. Congrats on your new home, I’ve been in mine almost 2 years and still have things that need to be done!!
Welcome to my blog and thanks Kim. Tell me about it, the list is endless.
Hello Madhuram!
I am delighted to see you ‘live’!I must let you know that I have really been lurking your blog going over and over through your lovely recipes and I do admire your acumen in baking stuff!I have become a follower of your blog and hope to learn lots from you.Lovely brownies by the way…do drop in sometime at my place too:)Will be lovely to have you visit my blog!
Take care!
Glad to see you back Madhu 🙂 And congratulations on buying new home. Hope your kitchen is all geared up to delight us. btw, these brownies are so luscious. It inspires me to bake them again after I terribly failed in my experiment to bake a eggless brownie last evening.
Hi!!
I am following your blog since 6 mnths. Was hoping to learn eggless baking but from quite some time there wasn’t any post. Sigh. But when yestrday I saw those tastiest brownies, I made them tonight & they were the best brownies I ever had and moreover guilt free!! Thanks for the resipe. (I wanted to share the photos but couldn’t figure out how.)
Thank you so much Arti for trying the recipe. That was very quick. I think the quickest ever somebody has tried a recipe I have posted. Please do send me the pictures to my email ID admin(at)egglesscooking(dot)com and I will publish it here.
I just died and went to heaven! This is soo good Madhuram, can’t believe the fat content in this one. Am making it!
Thanks Anu.
Madhu,
Welcome Back…Congrats on your new home.. Hope to see more posts from you soon..
Thank you very much Smitha. I also hope the same.
Oh, and glad to see you’re back!
This looks GREAT! Would you recommend trying this with whole wheat pastry flour (instead of all purpose flour)?
I’ll probably bake it with sucanat ground up (unprocessed sugar, basically).
Deepa
I would have definitely tried it with WWPF if I had it. We are used to WWPF so much that we hardly find it any different.
Thanks for posting a recipe that my whole family can enjoy!! Low fat for me and egg-free for my little one! Excited to try this out. Congrats on your new home, I’ve been in mine almost 2 years and still have things that need to be done!!
Welcome to my blog and thanks Kim. Tell me about it, the list is endless.
Missed your eggless recipes. Glad to see you are back. Thanks for the wonderful brownie recipe.Good Luck on your new home!!
Thanks Shubhada.
Hi – I just found you through Tastespotting and love the idea of non-fat brownies. Especially when they look as good as these. 😎
Thanks for dropping by.
AHH..fatfree , definately will try this.
Thanks Kanthi. Welcome to my blog.
they look awesome..
Thanks Sowmya.
hi there,
i shd deinitely try this one. i got some good cocoa powder from trader joe`s and i am waiting to make some thing guilt free!!!
Shobha
Do try it and let me know if you liked it Shobha.
Mouth watering recipe.. looks perfect 🙂
Thanks and welcome to my blog Hari Chandana.
Hello Madhuram!
I am delighted to see you ‘live’!I must let you know that I have really been lurking your blog going over and over through your lovely recipes and I do admire your acumen in baking stuff!I have become a follower of your blog and hope to learn lots from you.Lovely brownies by the way…do drop in sometime at my place too:)Will be lovely to have you visit my blog!
Take care!
Thanks and will definitely drop in.
Why, yes, I’m still lurking around! I’m always glad to see your latest creation pop up on my reader!
Thank Libby. That’s so sweet of you.
hey
Congrats on the new home! It does take a while to settle down. The brownies look sinful and not fat free at all!
Thanks Bharti.
Welcome back and congratulations on your new home 🙂
Thanks Vani.
Dear Madhuram
Everyone is still lurking around this wonderful blog. I still to read a recipe. I directly jump to comment page after seeing your first sentece 🙂
Thank you very much ABC.
They look amazing !!!
Thanks Priya.
Woww thats a delectable and tempting brownies, glad to see u back after a long..Welcome back, congrats on buying new home..
Thank you very much Priya.
Hei Madhu… where have you been? Welcome back…congrats on new home. Hope you all settled
Wow…yummy brownies
Sort of settled Bhuvana. Things keep coming up like mushroom. Will call you one of these days.
Welcome back Madhu….Congrats on your new home. Brownies look moist and incredibly yummy.
Thank you very much Latha.
Glad to see you back Madhu 🙂 And congratulations on buying new home. Hope your kitchen is all geared up to delight us. btw, these brownies are so luscious. It inspires me to bake them again after I terribly failed in my experiment to bake a eggless brownie last evening.
Thanks Radhika.
wow..this looks simply fantastic. Yummy to the core 🙂
Thanks Nithya.
Madhuram, welcome back. The title of the recipe on the top of print link is wrong. Just letting you know.
Thanks Champa, made the correction.
These look really moist…gotta love the “no fat”!
Thanks Jane.