By Matthew Avny-Kneer
Since I’m a Culinary major, you can assume that a meal or something along those lines will be presented monthly in this new column. You my friend are correct! Don’t worry, the In Motion crew will be taste-testing all recipes to make sure they are worth your while!
Despite what might be presented on some of the fancier food shows, the hippest thing to students is to put food into their body that it not only pronounceable, but is completely digestible as well. Although typically the main idea associated with that is eating “healthy.” Unfortunately, you cannot stay true to this ideal with high-calorie meals and desserts.
So, without further adieu, here is a completely natural brownie full of stuff you can pronounce, but we won’t be sharing the caloric content.
Ingredients:
2 Cups Evaporated Cane Sugar
1 1/2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 Cup Cocoa Powder (Hershey’s/Ghirardelli)
1/2 Tablespoon Fine Ground Sea Salt
1 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
1 1/2 to 2 Cups Semi-Sweet and Milk Chocolate Chips (mix as desired)
3 Large Eggs (or 3/4 cup liquid eggs)
3/4 Cup Whole Milk
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract (good quality, doesn’t smell like booze)
Non-Stick Cooking Spray
First, preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Then, grab a couple of mixing bowls. Take the sugar, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda and sift them, pushing the obnoxious clumps through the sieve. Mix in whole wheat flour. Add the desired amount of chocolate chips in any proportion, just making sure to not exceed 2 cups total.
Use the second bowl to mix wet ingredients: eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. Pour dry ingredients slowly while mixing into the wet ingredients. Should look like a big bowl of grainy chocolate pudding.
Now that the oven is preheated, lightly spray the inside of a 13 x 9 glass or metal baking dish. Pour the entire mixture into the dish and place in the center of the oven rack.
This is a temperamental mixture. Set a timer for 20 minutes then check it. Still jiggly? Give it another 4 to 6 minutes. As soon as it is done being jiggly in the center, pull it out and let it cool.
Cut into desired portion sizes or just grab the whole pan, sit in front of the TV and enjoy. Tell anyone who asks that, despite the decadence of the oozing chocolate, “It’s healthy. They are whole wheat!”