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White Bean Blondies!
By Melissa Breyer, Senior Editor, Healthy & Green Living
I am an ardent admirer of recipes that incorporate surprising ingredients–by that I mean surprising nutritious ingredients, not like, a super ball in my pie. Case in point, if I can successfully tuck zucchini in chocolate chip cookies or beets in a dark chocolate cake, I’m really quite tickled. I love the alchemy of effectively swapping less-nourishing ingredients for nutrition whizbangers, it feels like I’m getting one over on junk food somehow.
With that in mind I was thinking about one of my favorites throw-you-for-a-loop recipes, black bean brownies. I love them, but I’ve been on a blondie kick lately and thought, duh, white bean blondies! I had a pretty good idea of how I’d approach these, but did a little sleuthing on-line to see who else had attempted this. Sure enough, I found a recipe by Missy Chase Lapine–AKA The Sneaky Chef, famous for a book of the same title thats premise is how to hide veggies in cooking for kids. Now that’s a whole other debate we can discuss another time, suffice to say, my kids like beans and I’m not trying to dupe them–I just like turning things on their heads once in a while. Okay, as often as I can.
I made some adjustments to Sneaky’s recipe–I replaced brown sugar (which is actually refined white sugar with molasses added) with Sucanat (a less-refined sweetener), adjusted the sweetness and added maple syrup to add to that rich, caramel-y blondie flavor, and used white whole wheat flour (whole wheat, but made with subtle-flavored white whole wheat, King Arthur Flour makes it).
Next: Without further ado, the recipe…
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add your comment »There is a recipe for pinto bean fudge somewhere in my files. The first dish I remember cooking was Mock Apple pie. Since apples were available I don't why people would want to use crackers instead but they did. LOL....I have also tried sauerkraut cake, (actually makes you think it is coconut) Velveeta cheese fudge (when I was eating junk food)but let me say this does taste like homemade fudge as gross as it sounds.. and a host of other weird but strangely good, foods. Our favorite snack as kids was tomato soup cake.
I like the thinking on this though if you keep it healthy. I would love to add a little more sneaky nutrition into our meals.
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i don't know how they compare to bobbi's, but i just googled "pinto bean spice cake" (with quotes)and got 180 hits! a veritable plethora of pinto pastries!!!
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Bobbi - kindly share your recipe with us.
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Many years ago I used to make pinto bean spice cake, until my kids found a bean that didn't get mashed up. It's delicious! I still have the recipe.
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