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I’ve done a lot of work with brownies…trying to create a healthy brownie with the right taste and consistency in both single-servings and large batches. It’s been an uphill battle, but so far I’ve created a low-carb single-serve brownie and fudgy allergy friendly brownies. Both are good, but neither was quite as gooey as I would’ve liked. (Alert: I’ve been working on a new flour baking mix, and I used it in a “real” brownie recipe…still needs a few tweaks, but it’s AWESOME. Stay tuned. Hopefully next week.) Then the lightbulb came on as I started creating some recipes with oat flour. Oat flour tends to give things a sticky consistency, especially if you use too much. Maybe I could use this tendency to create a delicious brownie that tasted like a “real” brownie made with white flour and sugar….a brownie that tasted good warm. A lot of healthy brownies taste good cold, but warm – meh, not so much. This one…this one is chocolatey, sweet, and gooey when warm. It is perfection. Next project: convert this to a full-pan recipe.
And Trim Healthy Mamas, this is an (E)nergizing dessert (or snack, or breakfast, you know…whatever floats your boat)! On its own it’s not quite an E, so if you’re not using it for dessert after an E meal that already contains some carbs, add a piece of fruit to bring it squarely into E territory for breakfast or a snack.
Oat flour is super inexpensive (just grind up oats in a good blender or coffee grinder). Low-glycemic sweetener of your choice is the only “special ingredient” in this recipe! You can use whatever sweetener you like, but I recommend using at least some granulated sweetener and not just straight pure stevia extract powder to sweeten chocolate recipes, this one included.
Who knew that oat flour would be the ticket? That’s almost as bad as using cauliflower in chocolate cake!
Question of the day: I’m starting to work on a cookbook that will hopefully be released in time for Christmas 2016. What recipe, in your opinion, do I absolutely need to include?
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You can find this recipe in my cookbook, Necessary Food.
- 3 T oat flour (use gluten free if necessary)
- 1 T cocoa powder
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 2 packets Truvia (1½ tsp. spoonable Truvia), or more, to taste
- 2 doonks THM Pure Stevia Extract Powder (a doonk is 1/32 tsp.)
- 2 T egg whites (the carton kind works great)
- 2 T low-fat Greek yogurt or sour cream
- 3 T water
- Combine all ingredients and microwave in a 2 cup glass Pyrex dish for 2 minutes. Enjoy warm.
- On its own, this brownie is not quite a THM:E, so if you're not using it as a dessert after an E meal that already contains some carbs, add a piece of fruit to bring it squarely into E territory for a breakfast or snack.
I prefer to use a blend of sweeteners or all granulated sweetener in this recipe. I do not recommend using all pure stevia extract powder in most chocolate recipes. Feel free to add more granulated sweetener to this brownie (I'm a dark chocolate lover and most people say I undersweeten).
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We enjoyed this, I might have cooked it 1 minute 30 seconds instead of 2 minutes but the taste was great! We finished it all!
Why do some recipes call for two sweeteners? Like this one? Can I just use gentle sweet?
When I use two sweeteners I’m usually trying to get the best taste for the best dollar. 🙂 I use stevia where I can because it’s the cheapest, but I often combine it a bit of another sweetener for a better sweetness balance since not everything tastes good with straight stevia. Feel free to use an equivalent amount of Gentle Sweet in place of both of these sweeteners.
Fantastic! Just what I needed after a smallish E-lunch on this chilly day. I didn’t feel like getting my blender dirty to grind oats to flour, so I used Baking Blend (still 3 Tbsp.) and it turned out great! I sprayed a little reddi-whip on top, too. :)Thank you so much for sharing your talents on this blog. It is blessing my life!
Thank you for this recipe. It is delicious.
I have been needing to add more E options to my menu. I tried this one and love it. It reminds me of Coco wheat (which I needed to eat with a ton of brown sugar). I would like to use this for my breakfast. Please give me a couple of examples of what I should add with it? Other comments suggested a piece of fruit but then I read that some protein should be added. I still get confused on what I should add for E meals. Thank you!
Hi Becky! There aren’t enough carbs in this for it to get you into the 20g needed for a true E meal, so you could add a piece of fruit to get the carb counts up high enough. You should also add some protein in the form of some low-fat cottage cheese or Greek yogurt, 2 slices of turkey bacon, or some collagen in your tea or coffee. 🙂
can u use THM oat fiber instead of oat flour??
No, oat fiber and oat flour are very different consistencies. Luckily, you can make oat flour by just grinding up uncooked oatmeal in a coffee grinder or high powered blender!
Thanks Brianna, ok, got it., will do that next time. i did u the THM oat flour and it was really airy and not as u described., thanks for the reply. your recipes are awesome and my friends and I eagerly await your cookbook!! thanks again!!
Just had this for a snack. I only ate half, will (hopefully) save the other half for the hubs to try when he gets home. But thank you! I have so many S desserts & wanted more E options. Love this. I am wondering if only eating 1/2 actually made this a FP?
I’m glad you enjoyed it! If you’re using this on its own for a snack (especially if you only ate half of it), I would add some protein on the side. 🙂 Eating only a half might put this in FP range (you’d have to run the numbers), but it would be close.
So glad you mentioned the need to add protein. I often forget to make sure I have enough protein when I’m going for FP snacks between S & E meals. Thanks for the reminder.
Do you know how many carbs are in tbis? Thanks#
The healthy eating plan I follow focuses on ingredients, not on number counting, so I don’t calculate the nutritional information. It’s very freeing! If you like, you can put the ingredients into an app like MyFitnessPal to calculate the nutritional info, but sometimes sites like that don’t correctly count sugar alcohols or take net carbs into consideration.
You can find more about the healthy eating plan I follow here: https://www.briana-thomas.com/starting-trim-healthy-mama/
Funny! I just did this yesterday! According to MFP it has 28 grams of carbs. 25 net carbs. Not sure if the link will work but here it is…http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/view/239158294220541
While checking out my favorite blogs for a good chocolate mug cake, came across this one. It hit my “sounds really good button.” Made it for breakfast and my “tastes really good button” is very happy with this one…it’s a winner! I did add an extra packet of Truvia due to your “caution” that some say you under sweeten & I prefer sweet…it was just right & it goes into my make it often file. Love your beautiful pictures and great recipes! Good job!
I’m so glad you liked it, Judy!
Cannot say enough about your baked goods! I have yet to find one I don’t like. In the past I have been a semi-professional baker of traditional cakes, cookies, and other yummies. I’m new to THM and haven’t quite mastered the art of THM’ing baking recipes. Thanks to you I don’t have to! You’ve got it all figured out and clearly we are of like minds in the “yummy” world. Now I need to try your other recipes! Thanks for all you do and for sharing!
Aw, thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoy the recipes. <3
This is delicious and tastes like a cheat snack! Thanks for the recipe!
Can use use a whole egg instead of egg white? What thm would this make it?
This is meant for use in an E setting, so a whole egg would make this a crossover. It might give the brownie an eggy texture as well (the recipe only calls for 2 T egg whites).
HI Briana~ I’m curious why this recipe is an E and not FP. The oatmeal is such a small amount. Can you help me understand? Thank you! LOVE your blog and LOVE your recipes. I had French Toast in a Bowl for breakfast. YUM!!
Hi Julie! As I said in the post, “this is an (E)nergizing dessert (or snack, or breakfast, you know…whatever floats your boat)! On its own it’s not quite an E, so if you’re not using it for dessert after an E meal that already contains some carbs, add a piece of fruit to bring it squarely into E territory for breakfast or a snack.” Ingredients trump numbers, and since the main ingredient in this is oat flour, I called it an E because oats are a carb source. But you’re right – to make it a solid E, you’d need to add some more carbs to it. Even though numbers-wise this might fit into a FP category, I would save it for FP or E occasions and not mix it with S fuels. 🙂
Oops! I didn’t read it well! So sorry! But thank you very much for your reply. That makes sense now!
Does this mean that I could use this as an FP in a Fuel cycle?
I personally wouldn’t suggest due to the high amount of an E fuel.
I would assuredly purchase a cookbook from you Briana, for 2 reasons:
1. You understand HOW to write a recipe so that it is easy to follow.
2. You try to use easy to find ingredients.
I also would like to vote for ALL your recipes in the book. I would like it to be organized by type like you have on the website (desserts/side dishes/etc) and then in the back include a cross reference so if I want to look up just the FP recipes or just the E recipes. Or perhaps under each section you could have “subsections” that group all your E desserts together. Either way – please include something like this.
Can you use other bloggers recipes with permission? That would be neat as well.
Can you come up with a Nacho’s recipes using pork rinds as the “chips”?
How about a Taco Bell Chalupa made with a Joseph’s Pita?
I’d love to see more “copycat” fast food recipes that are FAST and EASY, like your lemon ice smoothie.
Thanks for the support and ideas, Laura! I’m definitely planning on keeping things as simple as possible and including a large variety of recipes so everyone can find something that works for her. An easy index system is also in the plan. I won’t be using any other bloggers’ recipes because this is a Briana Thomas cookbook and I”ll have more than plenty of my own to include. 😉
Have you tried baking this?
Not yet, but I’m sure it would work. 🙂 I would try 350 degrees until a toothpick comes out mostly clean. Don’t overbake.
@Gladden Grace I tried baking it at 350 F and it did work. How long it takes would, of course, depend on the size of your pan, but like Brianna said, bake until a toothpick comes out mostly clean. In my 9oz ramekin it took 20 minutes. Hope this helps 🙂
Love your recipes! They are a huge part of what has made THM so successful for me and my family. I have gotten so many of my friends and family to join me in this, and your site is one of the first references I give them. Thanks so much and I, too, look forward to your cookbook. Starting a blog soon so I can stop texting so much with all the folks I have gotten on THM and have appreciated your blogging info as well. I am sure I will be linking to you regularly. (I also go through your site to purchase all my THM products….so hope some of that has made it’s way back to ya!)
THanks so much for all the support, Patti! When you get your blog going, be sure to send me the link!
Hi , I love your recipes and am excited to hear you are writing a cookbook. I will definitely buy it!☺
Oh please include all your recipes! It’s too hard to choose! I can’t wiat for your cookbook!!
I’m planning on including most of my recipes I’ve done so far, and I have plans for a lot of new ones too. 🙂
I LOVE brownies! I will definitely have to try this one…I would have to add a few walnuts, too! Not sure if that is considered THM friendly. Have a nice day, sweet friend. 🙂
Walnuts belong in an S (low-carb, healthy fat) setting, not an E setting (low-fat, healthy carb) like this brownie would be, so you would have a crossover if you used more than a sprinkling of walnuts (still healthy, but not weight-loss promoting). 🙂 Totally your choice!