Vegan and Mediterranean Diet Brownies

Ingredients

• Wheat flour

  White, cake, enriched

  2 cup unsifted, dipped or 274g

• Baking powder

  Leavening agents, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate

  1 tsp or 5g

• Salt

  Table

  1 tsp or 6g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  1 ½ cup or 300g

• Cocoa

  Dry powder, unsweetened

  ¾ cup or 65g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1 cup or 237g

• Applesauce

  Original - Musselman's

  1 cup or 226g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  ¼ cup or 54g

• Vanilla extract

  1 tsp or 4g

• Dark chocolate

  70-85% cacao solids

  1 cup, chips or 168g

• Greek Yogurt

  24 tablespoons or 421g

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 and prep an baking dish (9 X 13 works well) for nonstick.
2. In a medium mixing bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. Next, in another medium mixing bowl, whisk or use a fork to mix together the sugar (or alternative) and the unsweetened cocoa.
4. Now, in a large mixing bowl, mix together the water, applesauce and oil. Then add to the large mixing bowl the flour mixture from the first bowl, stirring gently and then adding the cocoa and sugar mixture from the second bowl. Add the vanilla extract and mix until blended.
5. For adding the chocolate chips, there are two options . You can fold them into the batter or add half of the batter to the prepped baking dish, add the chocolate chips, and then add the remaining batter to the baking dish. The first option will evenly distribute the chips and the second will distribute the chips to the center of the brownies.
6. Bake for 26-30 minutes and allow to cool a bit before serving. A toothpick test will most likely not work in this recipe as the chocolate chips may thus give a false negative.
7. Recipe by: Food, Wine, and Love (source: https://foodwineandlove.com/vegan-and-mediterranean-diet-brownies/)