Zucchini Brownies

The recipe is a healthy one, but they taste so good!!  I adapted them slightly from this recipe at www.texanerin.com.  Erin is a genius at making yummy desserts healthier.  Talk about no guilt!

2 eggs
1 tbs vanilla extract
1/2 c coconut sugar (or organic sugar)
1/4 c organic sugar
1/4 c unsweetened applesauce
1 c whole wheat or whole spelt flour
1/2 c raw cacao or cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 c chopped walnuts
2 c peeled and grated zucchini
1 c semi sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F.  Spray a baking pan (8x8) with cooking spray.  In a large bowl, mix together; eggs, vanilla, coconut sugar, sugar and applesauce.  Let sit 5 minutes.  In a medium bowl, stir together; flour, cacao powder, baking soda and salt.   Sift the cacao if it has lumps.  It is important that there are no lumps in the flour mixture.  Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir gently to moisten.  Fold in walnuts, zucchini and chocolate chips.  It will look like there is too much zucchini in the batter, but it won't be noticeable when done.  Bake 25 to 35 minutes.  Check with toothpick and remove when sticky but not wet.  Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to a week (if they last that long!).  

This picture just doesn't do it justice.  These are very good!