Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Brownies with Walnuts

Ingredients

• 1 cup melted butter, margarine, or coconut oil; do not use margarine that has water as the first ingredient.
• 7 T cocoa powder
• 4 eggs, well beaten
• 2 cups Stevia in the Raw Granulated Sweetener
• 1/2 cup Lakanto Golden Monkfruit Sweetener
• 1 1/3 cups white whole wheat flour
• Pinch of salt
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup walnuts, hand broken

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 350F/180C. Put the butter or whichever fat you’re using in a large microwave-safe bowl, with plenty of room for the rest of the batter, and melt it in the microwave.
2. Add the cocoa powder to the melted butter and stir until the mixture is smooth and dark.
3. In a small separate bowl, beat the eggs thoroughly. Mix in 2 cups Stevia in the Raw, or the sweetener you’re using, until combined.
4. Add 1/2 cup Lakanto Golden Monkfruit Sweetener, or another 1/2 cup of your preferred sweetener, and stir once more.
5. Pour the egg mixture into the cocoa mixture and stir them together.
6. Add the flour, salt, and vanilla, then stir just until everything comes together.
7. Break the walnuts by hand until you have 1 cup, then fold them gently into the batter.
8. Coat a glass baking dish with nonstick spray. Scrape in the batter and press it into an even layer so the brownies bake flat. The dish used here was about 8″ x 11″.
9. Bake for 30 minutes. Cool the brownies in the pan for 10-15 minutes before you cut them.