One of the best things about this recipe is the brownies get moister if you leave them in the refrigerator a day or two. The problem at our house is no one can leave them alone for that long!
My husband—the best auctioneer you've ever heard!—and I have two grown daughters and a son, 14.
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These were the best mint brownies I have ever made! I have had a lot of requests for the recipe this year. I substituted the mint chips with Andes mint pieces and it worked well.
These brownies were amazing. I made them for a party and everyone was asking where I got the recipe. I couldn't find mint choc chips so I added a 1/2 tsp of mint extract into the choc chips and it was great. They make alot of brownies! I would make them again.
This recipe sounds great, and I'll probably try it, but can someone tell me how on earth it got in as a LIGHT dessert? With 1 C. of butter, 3 C. of sugar, 4 eggs, chocolate syrup and chocolate chips...what's light about it???
I agree with khinson! The recipe sounds great and I was getting ready to print it. But if a 9x13 pan yields 72 servings, those are awfully small servings for 105 calories and 5 grams of fat!
Who could possibly eat this? I agree, it is probably fabulous, but you wouldn't be able to eat for days to make up for the fat and calories in it. Too bad, sounds great, but it's just NOT worth it.
I agree. How can this be considered a light dessert?
With 1 cup of sugar, chocolate syrup and powered sugar, thisd is not a good desert for diabetics. I would be interedted to know the grams of sugar in this recipe. I wish you would show the grams of sugar in all your recipes.
1 1/2 cups of butter and 4 eggs, and this is "light"? It sounds yummy-just not "light"
I too was curious about how all those "not even pretending to be LIGHT" ingredients could add up to a LIGHT dessert so I ran the recipe through the Recipe Builder tool on the Weight Watchers site. The brownies add up to 3 points each (about 150 calories). Now that being said, I also figured what size each brownie will be to end up with 72. Try cutting these into perfect 1"x1.625" pieces and you've got your bon bon size LIGHT dessert. Hardly worth all the effort. If a family of four ate one brownie after dinner each night, it will take 2.5 weeks to finish them. How fresh will they be in a week? Much less 2.5 weeks! And who has that kind of self-control?! I call this recipe a fraud! FIVE BOOS instead of FIVE STARS.
Well we're not all on Weight Watchers!
I agree about it being a fraud, when I read the recipe ingredients amounts there is no way it is LIGHT!
ralphpwood
Not light, but I'd still make them to take to a work buffet! They sound amazing from the reviewers that actually made them, so I'd give it a try..just wouldn't keep them in MY house or I'd be scarfing them down :O)
I have not done it with this recipe - but have found when I tried to make my mom, who just got out of the hospital from a heart attack and is diabetic now - some zucchini bread - I adapted my recipe cutting the 2 cups of sugar to 1 1/4 c and I eliminated the oil and used unsweetened applesauce and to reduce the fat and calories further I used the equivalent amount of egg beaters in lieu of the eggs called for and it tasted just great. I would imagine you could substitute the egg beaters in this and bring down the fat and calories further - but that much butter seems like a lot, but if it's spread out over 5 - 6 dozen - that's not bad at all if you can eat just one serving!!!! What people need is will power and you can have the good stuff too.
Frances K.
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