{"id":13575,"date":"2016-04-10T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/responsive.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents\/?p=13575"},"modified":"2022-08-11T18:43:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T16:43:29","slug":"zucchini-brownies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/lifestyle\/food-recipes\/zucchini-brownies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zucchini chocolate brownies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Finding it hard to get your kids to eat vegetables? Then you need to learn to become very sneaky.<\/p>\r\n<p>I recently served my fussy 5 year old a \u2018chocolate milkshake\u2019 aka spinach, avo, banana, strawberry and cocoa. She drank at least half of it and my 2 year old finished it .If they can\u2019t see or taste the greens they may just eat more veggies.<\/p>\r\n<p>This brownie recipe has hidden baby marrow in, but you can\u2019t tell. It is still not on the healthy side with added sugar and chocolate but at least the fibre intake will be higher. Only serve occasionally.<\/p>\r\n<p>Make: 15 Portions<br \/>Prep time: 20 minute<br \/>Baking: 20-25 minute<\/p>\r\n<h2>Ingredients:<\/h2>\r\n<p>100g dark chocolate<br \/>2 eggs<br \/>125g butter<br \/>200g brown sugar<br \/>5ml vanilla<br \/>100g cake flour<br \/>30g (2 tbs) cocoa<br \/>2.5ml baking powder<br \/>1 cup or 3 small grated baby marrows<br \/>100g pecan nuts<br \/>Pinch of salt<\/p>\r\n<h2>Equipment<\/h2>\r\n<p>17cm x 18cm x 3cm baking tray, lined and greased with baking paper and oil.<br \/>Glass bowl<br \/>Saucepan<br \/>Sieve<br \/>Wooden spoon<br \/>Rolling pin and bag for nuts<\/p>\r\n<h2>Method:<\/h2>\r\n<h3>Step 1:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Preheat the oven to 180\u00b0C<br \/>Break chocolate in glass bowl and add butter.<br \/>Heat water in a saucepan and melt the chocolate and butter over the water.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Step 2:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Place nuts in a bag and hit with a rolling pin until chunky but not to crumbly.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Step 3:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Break eggs and add to the cooled chocolate and butter mix<\/p>\r\n<h3>Step 4:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Sieve flour, salt, baking powder and sugar and add to chocolate mix.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Step 5:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Add nuts, vanilla and grated baby marrow to the chocolate mix and stir through.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Step 6:<\/h3>\r\n<p>Pour into tin and bake for 20-25 minutes until cooked but still a little gooey in the centre. Cool down and cut into squares.<\/p>\r\n<h4>Tips:<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Use the correct sized tin or the brownies will either be too thin or to thick and will take longer to cook.<\/li>\r\n<li>The brownies should be moist and gooey so don\u2019t overbake them<\/li>\r\n<li>Let it cool down before cutting the brownies.<\/li>\r\n<li>Serve with Greek yogurt as a dessert<\/li>\r\n<li>To decrease sugar intake, cut in small squares or you can use less sugar then indicated in the recipe.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Click here to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/extra-murals\/cooking-and-baking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cooking and baking classes<\/a> for kids, teens and adults in Gauteng.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\r\n<li class=\"li2\"><i><\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>Subscribe to our free weekly Jozikids\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/member-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>newsletter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0 for parents in Gauteng<\/i><\/span><\/li>\r\n<li class=\"li2\"><i><\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>Like us on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jozikids.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Facebook<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<li class=\"li2\"><i><\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>Follow us on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/jozikids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Instagram<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding it hard to get your kids to eat vegetables? 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This brownie recipe has hidden baby marrow in, but you can\u2019t tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":351767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}