Little 55kcal lemon sheet brownies with strawberry & chocolate sauce: YUM!

Long time no post!

Lately I haven't had enough time to cook, final week of final exams is ending... And I am SO relieved!

Today I woke up craving something lemony so I spent the entire morning thinking what should I whip up to post for you guys... Then when I was I the gym it came to me: skinny brownies! But I knew I had to include chocolate somehow (we all know I am a HUGE chocoholic)...

And also, today I am celebrating my first blog partnership! A local traditional items shop decided to support me and my blog by supplying the porcelain dishes, trays, and all things kitchen for me to make beautiful pictures, made me so excited to see my blog / page(s) growing :D

Anyway, about the brownies!

I was thinking about making them tall and fluffy and filling them with the strawberry-chocolate sauce but then I thought otherwise and decided to make them kind of like a sheet cake and instead top them with the sauce and YUM, best idea ever!!

The texture is amazing and that lemon flavor... Delicious! I love the chocolate-lemon combination and the strawberries in the sauce give it just a little bit of texture that's just marvelous.

If you make them "sheet" like the recipe is good for about 20 of them, but if you want them taller just use a smaller taller baking tray and it'll probably make 12 or 16 :-)

My math was done for 20 sheet-like brownies and the 55 calories are INCLUDING the sauce!!

Here goes the recipe, enjoy!

Little 55kcal lemon sheet brownies with strawberry & chocolate sauce:

Ingredients:

- 180g (1 1/2 cups) self-raising flour;

- 20g (1 tbsp) baking powder;

- 10g (2 tsp) cornstarch;

- Itty bitty pinch of salt (like 1/2 tsp);

- 1 egg;

- 100g (3/4 cup) egg whites (or another whole egg);

- 1 tsp vanilla essence;

- 1 fat free sugar free yogurt (125g = 1 cup);

- Zest of a lemon;

- Rind of half a lemon;

- 50ml (3tbsp water - room temperature);

- 100g (3/4 of a cup) sweetener (or 200g (1 1/2 cups) confectioner's sugar) : Taste it before it goes in the oven because your lemons may be too sour compared to mine and the mix will be acid so you can add some more sweetener/sugar to taste!

For the strawberry filling:

- 250g (2 cups) fresh strawberries;

- 50g (1/2 cup) sweetener (or 100g (1 cup) sugar - may differ, depends on the cocoa you are using: add a little bit and then go by taste);

- 10g (2 tsp) cornstarch;

- 20g (1tbsp + 1tsp) cocoa powder;

How to:

- In a large bowl mix together flour, baking powder, cornstarch, salt & sweetener and mix well;

- In a smalled bowl mix all remaining ingredients and mix well;

- With a spoon make a well on the ry ingredient mix and pour in wet ingredients;

- Mix with stand mixer until light & fluffy & making small bubbles;

- Put in the pre-heat oven at 375ºF for about 30 minutes;

- While it's in the oven put strawberries & 1 cup of water into a saucepan and then add in cocoa powder, cornstarch & sweetener;

- Let this simmer until it starts to thicken and then turn off the heat and leave to cool a little until brownies are ready to come out of the oven;

- Pour sauce all over the brownies or serve separated and enjoy!!

Nutrition (16 servings using egg whites and 0kcal sweetener):

55kcal

1g Fat

10g Carbs

2g Protein

Come back again for an amazing recipe for homemade chicken burgers: 90kal each & packed with protein!!

Love,

Lu *

My first recipe post... Chocolate chip hazelnut blondies!

Made these this morning and they are almost gone... Must mean they are REALLY good!

All you're going to need is: self-raising flour, room temperature butter, 2 eggs, brown sugar, sweetener, vanilla extract, chocolate chips and hazelnuts, and you only need to use one bowl.

They take about 10 minutes to prepare and bake for 20/25 so they are super fast to bake and totally worth it, they are delicious and moist and yummy.

So let's cut to the chase, here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 250g / about 2 cups self-raising flour
• 2 large eggs (room temperature)
• 100g / a little under 1/2 of a cup room temperature butter
• 100g / a little under 1/2 of a cup light brown sugar
• 50g / 1/4 of a cup sweetener of choice (I used Stevia powder)-
• 20ml / 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 5 tablespoons (or 70g) chocolate chips (I used Hershey's semi-sweet)
• 50g / about 3/4 of a cup hazelnuts
• Pinch of salt

Directions:

1. First pre-heat your oven to 180ºC / 350ºF and prepare a rectangular baking tray;
2. In a stand mixer turned on high speed mix your sugars with your butter until it's all light and fluffy;
3. Turn the speed to the lowest possible and mix in vanilla extract followed by the eggs one at a time;
4. Sift together flour and salt and then add into the mix slowly so it doesn't lump;
5. Turn off the mixer and with the aid of a spatula or spoon incorporate chocolate chips and roughly chopped hazelnuts (or whole if you prefer);
6. Place in the tray spreading it to fully cover the base of the tray and put in the oven for about 20/25 minutes - NOT MORE or they will be dry. You can insert a toothpick and it should not come out clean, you want it to come out a like if it was a little undercooked;
7. Let cool completely in the pan, cut into squares and serve.

Hope you enjoy it, I absolutely loved it!

Love,

Lu *