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Applesauce Cocoa Squares
Author/Submitted by: Adapted from "500 Fat-Free Recipes" by Sarah Schlesinger
Servings: 16
Categories:
Apples
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Bars
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Chocolate
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Desserts
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Low-Fat/Low-Cal
Ingredients: 1
cup
all-purpose flour,
unbleached
3/4
cup
sugar 1/2
cup
unsweetened cocoa 2
teaspoons
baking powder 1/2
cup
skim milk 1/4
cup
applesauce 1
teaspoon
vanilla extract 3/4
cup
firmly packed brown sugar 1 3/4
cups
hot water
Directions:
1.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 8-inch-square baking pan with vegetable cooking spray. Combine flour, sugar, 1/4 cup of cocoa and the baking powder in mixing bowl. Combine milk, applesauce and vanilla in separate bowl. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Spoon batter into pan. Combine brown sugar, remaining cocoa and water. Pour over batter. Bake for 40 minutes. Remove from oven and cool in pan.
2.
Dessert will have a soft pudding layer under the baked top. Cut squares and then scoop the soft layer over the squares to serve.
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