I'll be honest with you, I'm no chocolate chick. Black forest gives me the creeps, mud cakes make me choke up. It's something about the overpowering chocolate taste, the ... pure richness of flavour.

I love my chocolates plain. Good old 80% cocoa. No cake, no ice cream, just in a nice chuck for me to suck on.

So it was weird for me to get this unbearable brownie craving.

I decided to do something about it. I can't go very long with an unfulfilled craving. Brownies? Sure, I can make brownies. But the calories and fats it your typical slice makes me freeze up.

I whipped out my computer (quite literally), and googled. Apparently you can substitute butter in brownie recipes for mashed bananas! And what better combination of fruit and candy than banana chocolate?

Is this a possible new obsession? I must say, i am dying to try applesauce as a substitute for canola oil. Fat-free baking, here i come!


I must say, as my first attempt at fat free baking, these came out pretty good. Sure, they were slightly lacking on the sugar, and it was a bit tough after it had cooled, but hey, if you want fat free, you've got to make sacrifices.

Something i would most definitely make again when the next brownie craving rears it's chocolate-coated head. Although i may up the corn syrup a little bit.