Banting Chocolate Brownies

9-50am

If it’s chocolate, I’m in! I actually went looking for a form of Banting Christmas Cake, but trust me, with all that fruit, they are going to be a real trick to get vaguely into a low carb zone. If I find one, I’ll let you know. Meantime, in my search I happened upon Nicoletta. Her website is not strictly Banting, but her team are dabbling in low carb recipes, trying to publish one monthly, so it’s worth the visit.

So this recipe came from Nicoletta’s website, made by Holly and tried out by me. So all of the following are my comments.

Ingredients

• ¾ cup almond flour
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder- I use organic
• 1/3  cup xylitol or honey -I used xylitol
• ½ teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda – had none, so I used baking powder
• Pinch of Salt
• Handful of assorted nuts – only had almonds – I roughly chopped them
• 3 Eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ¼ cup Butter, melted

Method

• Mix the dry ingredients
• Then add all the wet ingredients and combine well

That wasn’t difficult now, was it? Ha! Here are a few pics to illustrate….

Dry ingredients…

Wet ingredients…

Mix…

Until well blended…it’s not going to be entirely smooth because of the nuts…

Pour into a greased small baking dish/pan…

Ready for the oven…

Bake at 170°C for 15 minutes or until the brownie almost does not “jiggle”. Do not overcook, as the brownies will dry out quickly! Mine were still jiggling at 10 minutes, so I left them in for a few minutes longer and then at 12 or 13 minutes they were less jiggly, so I turned the oven off for another 5 minutes. You don’t want them raw either!  Moral of the story, is to keep an eye on them.

They don’t make a lot, so you may want to experiment with making double or making two batches. After all you go to the trouble of heating the oven etc. I cut them into 8 big brownies. I could have made it 12 medium or 16 ‘fingers’. They are rich and delicious so 8 big is quite extravagant!

Cocoa contains carb and almond flour does too, so while these are far better for you than traditional chocolate brownies, you’ll probably find each one has about 5g of carbs.  Do go to Nicoletta’s website, as she has a clever little idea of putting all the dry ingredients into a jar and giving it away as a gift. She has the ideal wording for the gift card.

You may also be interested in 3 Minute Banting Chocolate Cake in a Mug

All in all THUMBS UP!  Happy baking!

Luke 6:31

“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

The golden rule!

Keep the smile going.

God bless you!

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

Gratitude – Christmas…