Zucchini Brownies

A Healthy Sweet Treat! 

Recently I departed on a crazy mission not to eat any sugar or gluten. After returning home from my first year away at university in Canada, I felt like I had spent the year stuffing my face. Yes, I had been working out and trying to make healthy choices concerning food. Especially my final week in Canada though, I can chalk the unhealthy feeling down to the fact that my aunt and I just aren’t good for each other. And honestly, I love that and its always fun to have treats with her and no guilty feelings - that's the rule. After a time of letting go, however, I always need my health kick; My workout plan and my healthy foods. It was the need to feel healthy once again.

Back to the goodness that is good and sweets. This amazing Zucchini Brownie recipe that is both gluten free and (mainly) sugar-free has quickly become one of my favourite sweet treats. They satisfy my craving and are healthy enough that I feel I’m doing my body at least some favours. The following recipe is altered based on a few recipes that I have tried.

Ingredients  

 Instructions: 

1.  Turn the oven on to 180°C (350°F).  
2.  Mix all the wet ingredients; Almond Butter, Vanilla, Egg, Agave Syrup, Zucchini together. 
3.  I like to blend it lightly to make the pieces of zucchini even smaller. The mix of half big pieces and half small pieces makes for a nice consistency.      
4.  Add the remaining dry ingredients; Baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg. 

 

        5.  Oil pan and pour in mixture. Add chocolate chips and stir.

 
Of course, now if you made it, you know that it is healthy and has a vegetable and no sugar in it, and that might ruin it for you. Let me tell you though that these treats make it pretty close to top ten on my dessert list. And now please don’t think I’m a sugar-hating monster - I’m not. Chocolate is probably one of my favorite foods. Yet I still love these brownies. I also just put normal semi-sweet chocolate chips in so that's where the sugar some from, but dark chocolate also works! They just as gooey, sweet, and delicious as any other brownie!