Low kcal brownies

37 kcal a piece

 

Recipe:

4 eggwhites

7 tbsp sugar (or sweetener for less kcal)

5 tbsp cocoa powder

3 tsp baking powder

2 tsp vanilla extract

 

Preheat the oven to 180 ºC.

Mix all the ingredients and put in the oven for 10-15 minutes.

 

After putting it in the oven for 20 min (180 ºC)

instead of 10-15 like the recipe said

(because it was still liquid after 10 min and still gooey after 15)

it looked absolutely amazing.

 

Now I am always a bit sceptical about sweets,

mostly because of things like what happened with the mugcake,

people who never really came up with their own recipes just taking existing recipes,

removing high kcal ingredients and calling it a low-kcal recipe.

9 out of 10, it doesn't work.

My prediction about these brownies: without milk/yoghurt/some creamy substance,

these things are going to be extremely dry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is after cutting it and the crust was perfect too,

so my scepticism turned into hopeful optimism at this point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visually, this brownie is just about perfect.

Crunchy, but still a little wet, I was getting more excited by the minute.

And it was a lot too.

The recipe said to cut it into 12 pieces (of 37 kcal each), so that's what I did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plus the one I had already eaten because I was too

impatient to wait until I had taken all the pictures.

These are decent sized brownies and they look amazing.

The smell was also perfect, like what fresh-baked brownies should smell like.

 

The taste though... just....NO!

SOOOOO dry, just like I predicted.

It had a weird sour aftertaste and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from.

I didn't taste ANY chocolate (what a waste of all that cocoa powder,

which isn't cheap around here).

In fact, other than that sour aftertaste, I didn't taste much of anything.

It was like biting into a piece of cotton which happened to have the consistency of a brownie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, my opinion on this:

 

difficulty:

★

Basically the same as making regular brownies,

just mix everything together and wait for it to be done.

 

Taste:

★

Now I give even weird and gross stuff like the poached egg/mugcake thingy 2 stars,

but this just doesn't deserve that much.

The only taste it had was the taste of something like lemon-soap which

has been hiding in the back of the kitchen closet for sixteen years or something.

Awful.

And it's not just me.

My dad also had one of them and he told me he was pretty sure

I'd just tried to poison him, so I'm guessing he didn't much like it either.

 

Serving size:

★ ★ ★ ★

There are 12 decent-sized brownies and they look amazing.

Serving size is pretty good, although that doesn't really exuse the taste IMO.

 

Conclusion: Next time I'll try the one with the greek yoghurt,

as that would at least make it less dry, hopefully overpower that sour taste and maybe,

just maybe, actually make it taste like a regular brownie.

I do NOT recommend anyone try this.

I had to throw about 6 euros into the trashcan because I couldn't force myself to eat these.