With the children back in school parents everywhere are looking for healthy school snack ideas and I have a fantastic answer! Each year I make these Blondie Brownies with hidden veggies and each time the kids are ecstatic with their ‘dessert’. I am equally pleased with the fact that these desserts are healthy and jammed with veggies.
There is nothing like pulling one over on my girls to make me feel accomplished! A resounding cheer is lifted in my brain with each bite.
Blondie Brownies With Hidden Veggies
INGREDIENTS
- 8 Tablespoons butter
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup Navy Bean puree (see below)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup oat bran
- 1 cup flour blend (see below)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
PREPARATION
Navy Bean Puree
- Blend 1 can navy beans with 2 tablespoons of water in a food processor or blender until no full beans are visible.
Flour Blend
- Combine 1 cup of all purpose flour, 1 cup of whole wheat flour and 1 cup wheat germ.
Not So Blondie Brownie
- Preheat over to 350 degrees.
- Spray the bottom of a 9×13 inch pan, lightly dust with flour.
- Combine butter and brown sugar in a saucepan over medium heat until sugar is just dissolved.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- In a mixer blend cooled sugar-butter mixture, navy bean puree, vanilla, eggs.
- Once well mixed add oat bran and flour blend until just combined then mix in chocolate and butterscotch chips.
- Pour mixture into your baking pans and place on the middle rack of pre-heated oven for 30 minutes.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool, before cutting into squares.
I hope your family enjoys these as much as we do, drop me a line if you make them to let me know!
I make a brownie recipe with black beans, so good and my kids don’t know :)
Love the idea! :) I tried the black bean brownie recipe and liked it, so I am pretty sure I would enjoy this too!
Haha I will have to make these for the grandkids as none of them like their vegetables!
i love the sound of these. Being a vegetarian I don’t need to hide my veggies but I will lol
I am going to try these but will pass on the veggies hidden or not
I think I will try these, they look delicious!
Omg! Yum! I can’t bake but I try to eat clean and eat alot of Legumes. These were perfect and not hard to make-no guilt!!!!
I was not expecting navy bean puree :). What a super idea – nutritious and yummy!
Wow thank you very much..I have diabetes but if I can eat brownies that I love because the are made with vegetables….heaven
This recipe looks a lot healthier than a recipe for blonde brownies that I have in one of my cookbooks! I love the fact that there is wheat germ and oat bran in this. I use whole wheat flour a lot in my baking. Thank you for this recipe…I will give this one a try and let you know how they turned out….and how fast they disappeared!!
Navy Bean puree is definitely a different ingredient – my family loves treat and it would be great to sneak some nutritional value in there so I think I will have to try these out! Thanks for the recipe!