Black Bean Brownies

By gpawilson

These healthy brownies are rich and chocolaty! You'd never know that black beans were used!

Ingredients

• Cooking spray
• 1/2 ½ cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
• 1/4 ¼ cup black coffee, strong
• 1/2 ½ cup unsalted butter
• 4 oz bittersweet chocolate
• 4 large eggs
• 1 1/4 1¼ cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/8 ⅛ tsp table salt
• 1 cup all-purpose flour

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Coat a 9- x 13-inch pan with cooking spray; line with aluminum foil and coat foil with cooking spray.

In a blender or mini food processor, process beans with coffee until smooth; set aside.

In a double boiler over very low heat, melt butter and chocolate.

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat eggs and sugar until light and
fluffy.
With mixer on low speed, add melted chocolate to eggs; incorporate well.
Add black bean mixture, vanilla and salt; mix well. Add flour; combine thoroughly on low speed.

Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until a tester inserted in center of brownies comes out clean, about 25 to 30 minutes.
Remove pan to a cooling rack. After 10 minutes, remove brownies from pan by pulling up on foil and placing brownies on cooling rack to cool more.
Cut into 24 pieces and serve. Yields 1 piece per serving.

4Pt/Serving