Last week I made waaaaay too many black beans for a recipe.

[conuly]

But I remembered I'd read about making brownies with black beans, so I put a cup and a half aside. And with one thing and another, those brownies didn't get made. (One thing was that all the recipes online called for canned beans and box mix. No thank you!)

Today I committed myself to making those brownies... but the beans had gone bad. I could easily have made NORMAL brownies, but once I decide to do a thing I like to follow through as I intended. So I just boiled some more beans.

You know, when you make black beans the water ends up, well, black? They're the beans from the black lagoon!!!!

Anyway, several hours later I finally made this recipe, taking the advice from the comments and adding half a cup of flour. I also stuck some peanut butter on top, and didn't add the mint extract. (Sorry, Lizziey! But then, we're not sharing with you anyway :P)

Now, the idiotic comments that "Oh, I'm so okay with my kids gorging on THESE brownies because they get protein and fiber!" are, as I said, completely absurd. A quick check on the data shows that you're hardly getting any of that in a reasonable serving. And if it's NOT a reasonable serving it's still too many brownies for every day.

So I'm not going to cook these just to make dessert a little healthier. It's dessert. It's not really supposed to be healthy... and if I want a healthy dessert, I'll just give the nieces a mango or some bananas or something.

But I would absolutely cook them again for the texture. Very firm, and the brownies held their shape even though I cut them, as is traditional, when they were barely out of the oven. I know I shouldn't, but I do anyway.

They tasted pretty much like normal as well, and of course you don't have to use any flour at all. So all in all, I have to say this experiment was a wild success.

And the nieces weren't able to guess the secret ingredient at all! I had to tell them!

Comments

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Mint brownies are the only good brownies.

[conuly]

These were insufficiently minty.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Well yeah.

Remember when I made you a mint chocolate cake and you didn't eat it?? >:[

[conuly]

No, but I remember when you didn't bring up things from years earlier with angry faces :P

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Heheh I made you a cake and you left it at Jenns house when they lived on that hill near my grammas house.

AND I'M STILL BITTER. YOU ONLY ATE ONE PIECE.

This could be because I made Daniel a very involved cake this year and he, too, only ate one slice! :(

[conuly]

Scribner? I don't know if you've noticed it, but Staten Island is, like, one really big hill. REALLY BIG.

Next time Daniel only eats one slice, slam his face into the rest of the cake. End of problem.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Scribner. I hated walking up that hill.

That's the plan, yes.