Like all the reviews said, they don’t taste quite like brownies, but it’s hard to stop eating them once you start. They were really easy to make, despite a few screw-ups along the way. And even though I made what might be my best batch of banana yogurt muffins ever yesterday, I still needed some redemption after the banana lime coconut muffin debacle. I gave all of those muffins away, and deleted the recipe from my Pinterest board. It’s dead to me.
I poked around my Pinterest board, and when I saw this one I remembered that I had about half a can of pumpkin left that I wanted to use, plus some cinnamon chips waiting in the wings. And it looked good! The reviews strongly stated that the word “brownie” was inaccurate, so I didn’t have brownie-like expectations, but they all said it was delicious and addictive and worth making again. I agree completely.
I got to use my egg separator, and one of my favorite little glass bowls. It was the usual procedure of wet ingredients and then dry.
I started with 1/2 cup of pumpkin, two egg whites, one egg, and a splash or two more than a tablespoon of canola oil.
I put that aside and dove into the dry ingredients. Oh, and I used whole wheat white instead of all purpose flour.
Once I added baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and brown sugar I knew I was on to a good thing.
By the way, as I was making this, I had this ridiculous song in my head and I couldn’t turn it off. It’s from Phineas and Ferb, which we all watch a lot of around here. The song is “Ducky Momo Is My Friend” and Candace sings it, and in the video she’s a little girl with an oversized head. So yes, while I was stirring or whisking or measuring or pouring, I had “Ducky Momo Is My Friend” running through my head. The whole time.
Once the dry ingredients were whisked together, I poured them into the first mixture.
I mixed enough to incorporate, then added the cinnamon chips.
I folded them in and then when I went to pour the batter into the pan, I realized that I did not have the right size pan. The recipe said 11 x 7, and mine is probably 9 x 13. D’oh. I spread out the batter and it was mighty thin. I’d gone too far to turn back, though, so I did the best I could to distribute it evenly.
And you know what? It came out of the oven fifteen minutes later looking like this:
And it’s delicious! Moist but still crumbly, sweet but not too sweet, flavor-rich and light and addictive. What a great discovery.
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