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Microwave Brownies
What you need:
1 banana, mashed
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
nonstick spray
chocolate chips, to taste
What you do:
1. Grease a small microwave safe dish. In a bowl, mix together the banana, sugar, olive oil, and vanilla.
2. Stir in the flour, cocoa, and salt. Put prepared dish. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
3. Microwave on high for 4 to 5 minutes (depending on how gooey you like them). Adjust the cooking time based on the power of your microwave.
Great for late night studying Snacks. You could probably even add some instant coffee to them before you cook them.
Preparation Time:
Cooking Time:
Servings:
4 to 6
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
wow! i'm amazed how easy that was! i mixed every ingredient in a mocrowavable bowl, and nuked it for 4 1/2 minutes. altough it does tastes like banana a lot, i tought it was quite good, and so did my omnivorous friends, ( whom i told the vegan part of the recipe afterward...) and it was all gone before it even got a chance to cool.
does apple sauce make it watery?
alright. so im sitting here, knife in hand, ready to cut into this microwave concoction. will it be good??? i added 2 tsp. instant coffee LOL cause who doesn't need a pick me up? I also used applesauce instead of banana and whole wheat flour which makes the texture a little more grainy... used less sugar by like 3 tblspns, and made the whole thing using cereal bowls.alright. here it goes. im gonna post a pic by the way.
ahh the taste of success. But:
this is nothing without chocolate chips. maybe it needs more, like in the center. because i just put them on top.
does anybody have any suggestions of what i might do to make these better? i would really like to be a member of the "i got good brownies out of this" club!
I got icky results when I made them with all applesauce too -- the trick is to substitute some extra cocoa powder for an equal amount of flour if you are doing all applesauce. Otherwise the texture and taste of the applesauce ruins everything. I found they're even better when I use 3/4 applesauce and 1/4 raspberry preserves. This way, they are pretty good even if you don't use chocolate chips (I don't).
If I am reading this right, you didn't use a banana at all. I think the banana is the vegan version of a standard brownie's egg. It what holds it all together. Applesauce is a replacement for oil, but cannot be used as an egg replacement. Long story short, the banana is pretty much required to hold it all together. I would think you could use another egg replacer like Ener-G, but you have to have something to hold the mix together. Hope that helps.
but i do believe that you can use applesauce as a binding ingredient for the same reason that you can use a banana (fruit starches). i use it all of the time as one.
http://www.wikihow.com/Replace-Eggs-in-Your-Cooking
Hmmm. If you want to stick to the applesauce, maybe it would help if it was strained right before you put it in?
If I am reading this right, you didn't use a banana at all. I think the banana is the vegan version of a standard brownie's egg. It what holds it all together. Applesauce is a replacement for oil, but cannot be used as an egg replacement. Long story short, the banana is pretty much required to hold it all together. I would think you could use another egg replacer like Ener-G, but you have to have something to hold the mix together. Hope that helps.
but i do believe that you can use applesauce as a binding ingredient for the same reason that you can use a banana (fruit starches). i use it all of the time as one.
http://www.wikihow.com/Replace-Eggs-in-Your-Cooking
i am so envious because everyone else got good brownies out of this. i was so excited about this and thought that they might turn out halfway decent.
:'(
i made these and my wife and i ate them with vanilla icecream and whipped cream and it should have been so fabulous!
not so.
she made this funny face but was eating them with a forced smile and nodded grudgingly... until i said, "i'm kind of disappointed in these brownies" and she threw down her bowl with relief and exclaimed, "oh, i know! these brownies are ick!"
normally i'll eat something that i didn't like just so that it isn't wasted, but i'm sad to say that these are going to waste. eating them is making me sick. i keep taking little hopeful bites hoping that they will grow on me, but each bite is just as miserable as the one before.
i AM willing to make them again and perhaps making them a little differently to see if i can get the wonderful brownies everyone else got instead of what my wife called "space food".
here's what i did:
i didn't have banana but i noticed that a lot of people made them with applesauce so i added one cup of applesauce. i did it about a quarter of a cup at a time, but it wasn't until a cup that it seemed wet enough.
i used whole wheat pastry flour (which i use for ALL of my baking, brownies included).
i used a 1/4 cup melted vegan butter instead of oil... because, well, when i think baked goods i think butter.
and everything else i did just as the recipe said.
they tasted like they needed more sweet to them, but their texture was way off, too.
maybe if i had a bigger dish then they would have been thinner and the cooking would have been more even? i wish i had a square glass baking dish but i only had a glass mixing bowl or a tupperware tub... i opted for the tupperware since i was trying to get more uniform cooking.
we took them out at four minutes because we love gooey, fudgy brownies. they were out of the microwave for about two minutes when i cut into them and picked up the piece and discovered that the whole middle and bottom was completely uncooked, so we put them back in for about thirty seconds. i couldn't cook them any longer than that because the chocolate chips started to smell like they were burning. so maybe the problem was in the delay between the initial microwaving and the follow up?
whatever it is... i was so sad when i ate these! i've had these saved in my recipe box FOREVER!!!
does anybody have any suggestions of what i might do to make these better? i would really like to be a member of the "i got good brownies out of this" club!
this is the first recipe i've ever gotten off of this site that i found to be just terrible... and it was a total shock since it got such great reviews! surely there's something i did wrong or something.
If I am reading this right, you didn't use a banana at all. I think the banana is the vegan version of a standard brownie's egg. It what holds it all together. Applesauce is a replacement for oil, but cannot be used as an egg replacement. Long story short, the banana is pretty much required to hold it all together. I would think you could use another egg replacer like Ener-G, but you have to have something to hold the mix together. Hope that helps.
does anybody have any suggestions of what i might do to make these better? i would really like to be a member of the "i got good brownies out of this" club!
When recipes go heavy on the low fat side, or have lots of applesauce or bananas in them, you need to let them set after you take them out of the oven so they set up a little bit. That's probably part of the problem.
The quickest fix for these is to add chocolate chips. You might want to increase the sugar and vanilla a bit too.
but i never use fat and i always use applesauce in my brownies... so this one already had a quarter of a cup more fat than my usual brownies. it had chocolate chips on the top, too.
aaaaaaand, i kept trying it to see if it would get any better... i tried it before i threw it out a few hours later, even, and it never got any better.
it wasn't just the texture... it was the texture and the taste. i dunno. i wish i knew... that way i could have yummy brownies FAST!
i am so envious because everyone else got good brownies out of this. i was so excited about this and thought that they might turn out halfway decent.
:'(
i made these and my wife and i ate them with vanilla icecream and whipped cream and it should have been so fabulous!
not so.
she made this funny face but was eating them with a forced smile and nodded grudgingly... until i said, "i'm kind of disappointed in these brownies" and she threw down her bowl with relief and exclaimed, "oh, i know! these brownies are ick!"
normally i'll eat something that i didn't like just so that it isn't wasted, but i'm sad to say that these are going to waste. eating them is making me sick. i keep taking little hopeful bites hoping that they will grow on me, but each bite is just as miserable as the one before.
i AM willing to make them again and perhaps making them a little differently to see if i can get the wonderful brownies everyone else got instead of what my wife called "space food".
here's what i did:
i didn't have banana but i noticed that a lot of people made them with applesauce so i added one cup of applesauce. i did it about a quarter of a cup at a time, but it wasn't until a cup that it seemed wet enough.
i used whole wheat pastry flour (which i use for ALL of my baking, brownies included).
i used a 1/4 cup melted vegan butter instead of oil... because, well, when i think baked goods i think butter.
and everything else i did just as the recipe said.
they tasted like they needed more sweet to them, but their texture was way off, too.
maybe if i had a bigger dish then they would have been thinner and the cooking would have been more even? i wish i had a square glass baking dish but i only had a glass mixing bowl or a tupperware tub... i opted for the tupperware since i was trying to get more uniform cooking.
we took them out at four minutes because we love gooey, fudgy brownies. they were out of the microwave for about two minutes when i cut into them and picked up the piece and discovered that the whole middle and bottom was completely uncooked, so we put them back in for about thirty seconds. i couldn't cook them any longer than that because the chocolate chips started to smell like they were burning. so maybe the problem was in the delay between the initial microwaving and the follow up?
whatever it is... i was so sad when i ate these! i've had these saved in my recipe box FOREVER!!!
does anybody have any suggestions of what i might do to make these better? i would really like to be a member of the "i got good brownies out of this" club!
this is the first recipe i've ever gotten off of this site that i found to be just terrible... and it was a total shock since it got such great reviews! surely there's something i did wrong or something.
Mmmm.. gooey goodness in 5 minutes.. I added some strawberry jam and ate from a bowl like a pudding.. so good!
I love this recipe!
I make 1/4 the quantity (omitting choc. chips - since I'm out of them) and microwave it for 1 1/2 minutes. It's just perfect for a sugar fix for me.
Since I'm the only brownie fiend in the family, it's way better than having a big pan of them to eat (not that I couldn't do it if I had to!)
It's so nice to easily satisfy that brownie craving without making a huge pan of them - and they're less unhealthy than other brownie recipes, too!
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