Light coffee brownies: soft, with an intense taste but with little sugar and butter. Everyone loves brownies, the american treats very rich in butter and especially sugar, a real calorie bomb. This is my personal 'lightened' version, because my dad is hyperglycemic and he has to be very very careful. For a few months so I've been experimenting with different sweets that he likes, gradually decreasing sugars and focusing on other flavors: spices, bitter chocolate, coffee, fresh fruit.
Perhaps you will be surprised, but inside these light coffee brownies there's not even a grams of cocoa or chocolate: the dark and intense color is due exclusively to the liofilized coffee. Above, instead, I put a dark chocolate cream and lots of hazelnuts. The consistency, Obviously, is slightly different from that of the brownies at the top, because the crunchy crust is given precisely by the large amount of sugar. The surface is therefore soft, similar to a cake, while the interior is melting, meltable and yummy.
They are perfect for breakfast, but actually also with a snack, with a glass of milk like when we were little and sugar wasn't a problem. Very easy to do, you'll only dirt a bowl. The dose of liophilized coffee serves to obtain a very intense taste, with a pleasantly bitter aftertaste, but you can also decrease it slightly. If you suffer from insomnia, take a decaffeinated liophilized coffee, I recommend.
Coffee cakes, some alternative
If you love coffee cakes (I adore them), I'll leave you a few more recipes to explore, save and redo, for each season. Have a good day.
- the coffee semifreddo with cream
- the Mocha cake
- the tart with coffee cooked cream
- the coffee ice cream cookie
- the Bavarian coffee without eggs
- the cream of coffee mascarpone