My Favourite Recipe!

Healthy Chocolate Brownie (Yes Healthy)!!!

Ingredients

100g (4oz) good quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)

Plus 50g (2oz) finely chopped into chips

150g (5 ½ oz) coconut oil, butter or dairy free margarine

100g (4oz) Xylitol

2 ripe bananas, mashed

4 large eggs, beaten

2 tsp vanilla extract (not artificial flavouring vanilla)

150g (5 ½ oz) ground almonds

2 tsp baking powder

25g (1oz) cocoa powder

200g (7oz) hazelnuts, chopped

Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4

Line a 22cm (9in) baking tin with baking paper

Melt 100g of chocolate over a bain marie (bowl over boiling water) or in the microwave

Cream the oil, butter or margarine and xylitol until soft and fluffy, then either blend in the rest of the ingredients in a food processor or, do it by hand.

Beat in the chocolate, bananas, beaten eggs, vanilla extract and then stir in the chocolate chips, ground almonds, baking powder, cocoa powder and chopped hazelnuts

Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for around 20 minutes or until the mixture no longer wobbles when shaken and the top is just firm to touch. You don’t want to cook it for too long or the brownies will lose their squidgy quality. Leave to cool, then cut into slices for serving

(Holford P “Delicious, Healthy, Sugar-Free”)