{"id":20,"date":"2012-04-20T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2012-04-20T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T22:48:00","slug":"no-cocoa-no-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"No Cocoa? No Worries!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Started melting butter for my mom’s brownie recipe when I realised I had some brownie making issues.\u00a0 First off, her recipe called for walnuts and as these where for school, no nuts allowed.\u00a0 Grabbed a bag of shredded coconut to replace the nuts, save.\u00a0 Second, I realised I had NO COCOA!\u00a0 Grabbed the chocolate chips and melted a bunch into the butter, till it was nice and dark, and SAVE again.\u00a0 They where absolutely lovely brownies!<\/p>\n

Of course my tweaking didn’t stop there… replaced the sugar with coconut sugar (because it has a profoundly lower glycemic effect) and then added some high fiber grains for good measure, this didn’t result in heavy brownies.\u00a0 Finally I had no time to ice the brownies (making this quick recipe late at night) so the chips came in handy again, being thrown on top before baking made a nice replacement for icing.<\/p>\n

I really enjoy my mothers original recipe.\u00a0 It was the first baking I made as a girl.\u00a0 Hopefully next time I go to make it I will have the proper ingredients on hand… that being said, these coconut brownies where very enjoyable in their own right and will for sure be faithful school lunch baking. <\/p>\n

Chocolate Coconut Brownies<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

1\/2 cup melted butter
3\/4 cup chocolate chips (or more for darker brownies)
1\/2 cup coconut sugar (also called organic palm sugar)
1\/4 cup spelt bran
1\/4 cup toasted wheat germ
1 egg
1\/2 cup unbleached flour (and a little bit more for good measure, like 2 tablespoons)
1\/2 tsp baking powder
1\/2 cup unsweetened coconut shavings
1 tsp vanilla<\/p>\n

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  1. Melt the butter and throw the chocolate chips in while warm, stirring till melted.<\/li>\n
  2. Add melted mix to the coconut sugar.<\/li>\n
  3. Add each item after that, mixing well.<\/li>\n
  4. Scrape into 8×8 greased pan.<\/li>\n
  5. Top with chocolate chips before baking.<\/li>\n
  6. Bake at 350 degrees for EXACTLY 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Do you have a favorite baking substitute that wowed you, or just plain saved the day?\u00a0 Please share in the comment section!<\/p>\n

    Happy adventures in baking everyone, and remember to learn substitute options, they will save your baking sanity for sure! <\/p>\n

    TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Started melting butter for my mom’s brownie recipe when I realised I had some brownie making issues.\u00a0 First off, her recipe called for walnuts and as these where for school, no nuts allowed.\u00a0 Grabbed a bag of shredded coconut to replace the nuts, save.\u00a0 Second, I realised I had NO COCOA!\u00a0 Grabbed the chocolate chips […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}