Apple Sauce and Walnut Brownie Cake. A lovely easy recipe with no eggs or fat. It tastes amazing but without all the calories!

Apple Sauce and Walnut Brownie Cake. A lovely easy recipe and great tasting. It isn't particularly sweet due to the reduced sugar content, but you certainly get a good hit of chocolate. It's chewy and gooey, just like a brownie should be, but without the use of oil or fat and eggs, you can quite easily eat a slice or three with less guilt!
This cake is always so popular, it has become a 'keeper' recipe and simply must be shared with you all. So please enjoy our Apple Sauce and Walnut Brownie Cake.
If you'd like to make our 3 minute apple sauce recipe, it's really easy!
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Prep time
10 minutes
Baking time
25 minutes
Serving size
16 Slices
Ingredients
1 cup or 250 g Apple Sauce, sweetened or unsweetened.
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
½ Cup or 45 g Cocoa Powder
¾ Cup or 90g All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
⅓ Cup or 60 g Sugar
¼ Cup or 90 g Dark Chocolate Chips
½ Cup or 70 g Walnuts, chopped
1 tsp powdered sugar for dusting
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Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C and line a 20 cm baking pan with parchment paper.
2. In a bowl, sieve the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Then in a separate bowl, add the remaining ingredients and mix until combined.
Fold in the flour to the wet mix. Do not over mix as this will cause the cake to become tough.
3. Add the batter to the baking pan and place in the oven for about 25 - 30 minutes or until the top is set and the middle has a slight wobble.
4. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the baking pan for 10 minutes, then turn out on to a cooling rack.
5. Dust the surface with powdered sugar and slice. There you have our Apple Sauce and Walnut Brownie Cake. Please enjoy!
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Recipe

Apple Sauce and Walnut Brownie Cake
Apple Sauce and Walnut Brownie Cake. A lovely easy recipe with no eggs or fat. It tastes amazing but without all the calories!
Ingredients
- 1 cup or 250g Apple Sauce, sweetened or unsweetened.
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ½ Cup or 45 g Cocoa Powder
- ¾ Cup or 90g All Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- ⅓ Cup or 60 g Castor Sugar
- ¼ Cup or 90 g Dark Chocolate Chips
- ½ Cup or 70 g Walnuts, chopped
- 1 tsp powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C and line a 20 cm baking pan with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, sieve the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Then in a separate bowl, add the remaining ingredients and mix until combined. Fold in the flour to the wet mix. Do not over mix as this will cause the cake to become tough.
- Add the batter to the baking pan and place in the oven for about 25 - 30 minutes or until the top is set and the middle has a slight wobble.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the baking pan for 10 minutes, then turn out on to a cooling rack.
- Dust the surface with powdered sugar and slice.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 118Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 32mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 2gSugar: 9gProtein: 2g
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate
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Darla johnson
says:What is castor sugar?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Darla, Castor Sugar is just finer grained sugar from regular sugar often used in cake baking. If you can´t find it, you just need to beat the mixture a little longer so the sugar grains dissolve. Hope that helps!
Liz
says:Sounds so good to me. Thank you and have a great week.