My last attempt at a healthy cake was labelled "joyless" but this one got an enthusiastic thumbs up, so worth a try...
Ingredients
2 mugs oat flour (any other flour probably good too)
1 mug porridge oats
1 mug brown sugar (or golden syrup or other sweetener)
1 mug water
Half mug vegetable oil or vegan butter
2 bars (or 200g) dark chocolate
Optional: chopped nuts
What To Do
Melt the chocolate - start this first as it takes a few minutes. It is best to put a glass bowl in a pan with water and heat the pan on the cooker with the chocolate in the bowl. This gently heats the chocolate. The bottom of the glass should be resting in the water. Melting chocolate in the microwave usually ends in tears.
In another bowl, mix the oats, flour and water together. Now stir in the sugar/syrup. Mix well. Next, add in the oil/vegan butter (if you use butter, the butter should be melted) and mix well again.
The chocolate should be melted by now, so pour the chocolate in and stir. If you want to add chopped nuts, stir them in too.
The mixture should be fairly runny.
Cooking
Heat the oven up to 180C. Pour the mixture into a ceramic baking dish - mine is 25 x 18cm (10 x 7 inches). Cook for 20 to 25 minutes, depending how soft you like your brownies (I went for the 20 minutes option).
Storage
Probably best stored in the fridge, but should stay good for several days even at room temperature.
