New and Improved Keto Brownies!

The last recipe I posted was a slight alteration of one from another website, but after a week or so of poking around in the kitchen, I have finally created a new brownie monster that is worth the effort of a blog.

It's chocked full of good stuff like butter and coconut oil, very easy to make and SO WORTH IT!

It's taken me a while to post it because I went through a few different trials to get the ingredients just so as many of my previous attempts have either ended up falling flat, dry, or going super crumbly after a day. These seem to live up to their valour so I hope you like them!!!

New and Improved Ketogenic Brownies!!! 

(   fit for fat fasting :) ) 

Makes 6 big brownies. 

Macros: 

Calories - 180

Net Carbs: 2g

Protein: 5g

Fat: 17g

Ingredients:

2 full eggs (yolk and whites)

4 tbsp salted butter

1 tbsp hard coconut oil

1 tbsp pecan butter 

1 tsp baking powder

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

1/3 cup almond flour

1/3 cup erythritol 

pinch salt (~1/4 tsp or less)

+ coconut oil to grease your pan with

Instructions:

- Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a large bread pan with coconut oil

- Melt butter, nut butter, and erythritol in a pan on the stove. Make sure that the sweetener is completely dissolved to reduce the 'cooling' effect you may have heard about that goes with erythritol.

- Beat eggs in a bowl

- Add all other ingredients EXCEPT baking powder to the bowl with the eggs. Mix slightly.

- Pour wet ingredients into bowl with the other ingredients. Mix well.

- Pour mix into bread pan and put in oven for 30 minutes.

- Take out, allow to cool.

- Enjoy!

These brownies are amazing on their own, especially after being refrigerated OR when slightly reheated.
For an extra protein hit I like to cut the brownie in half, and microwave half of a quest bar on top of the half brownie. It is frickin' amazing.

Let me know if you like the brownies (or if there's anything else you think I should attempt to bake)!!! :D

-A. 

Keto-Friendly Brownies

My national board exam is in 8 days.
I have been studying between 4-10 hours a day every day for weeks, with the only breaks being to go to physiotherapy/personal training, yoga, or potentially a tutorial/nature hike with the dogs.

I'm starting to go crazy.

I had three options this evening: go to yin yoga (which I 100% would have done if it wasnt in the middle of the night - aka 830pm), study for LMCCs, or bake keto-brownies.

As I'm scheduling a couple of days of fat-fasting and keto-brownies are the best invention since avocado, I opted to take a break from my normal schedule and experiment.

I've made keto-brownies only once before and burned them, but they were still awesome. I thought this time I would tinker with the recipe a little to reduce likelihood of scorching them into little fatty bricks, and this time they turned out at least 3x better!

This recipe is based almost entirely off of the AMAZING recipe from: 

http://www.tasteaholics.com/recipes/keto-skillet-brownies/ 

.... so that person gets all the credit 100%. 

I just did a few tweaks to convert the brownie from skillet to bread-pan... primarily because I don't own a skillet and I like to cut rectangles.

Warning: I am not a cook/chef. I barely know how to make kraft dinner (back when I ate carbs). But anyway, here we go.

(Adjusted) Recipe for Keto-Friendly Brownies!

Servings: 6

Calories per serving: 155

Carbs: 4g (2g fiber = net carbs 2g per brownie)

Fat: 16g

Protein: 2g

Ingredients:
6 tbsp butter (I use salted because I have a real problem with salt deficiency given the vegetarian diet)
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/3 cup almond meal/flour
1/3 cup erythritol
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
+/- 1 tsp vanilla extract (if you're cheap like me, use artificial vanilla extract)
+/- nut butter on top as icing if you have an addition to nut butters like I do (I like sunflower nut butter omfg I can't even)

Plan:

Melt butter and erythritol in a pan over low heat.
While that's happening, beat egg (giggity).
Add all other ingredients to egg EXCEPT baking powder.

Add in melted butter/erythritol and mix together until all lumps n bumps are gone.
Fold in baking powder last. Don't over mix! There's some kind of magic in baking powder and if you're aggresssive with it you'll scare it away.

Bake in a buttered bread pan at 300-325 degrees Farenheit for 35 minutes.
Take out of oven and leave it be until it cools!

Once they're cool-ish enough to cut, cut them into 6 pieces (or less ... or just get a huge spoon and eat it directly out of the dish - screw it there's no judging here) and if you want, add that nut butter on top. I suggest sunflower seed butter because I have an addiction to it.

Inhale.  

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