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Sugar Free Peanut Butter Brownies:

Brownie part:
2 sticks butter
2 cups splenda
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
3/4 cup unsweetened
cocoa
1 cup soy flour -- or atkins
bake mix
1/2 teaspoon baking
powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Fudge topping:
2 tablespoons butter
8 ounces cream cheese
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup splenda
1/2 cup natural peanut
butter


How to Prepare:

Brownie: Heat oven to 350
degrees, grease 13X9 inch
pan. Melt butter in
microwave. Stir in splenda
and vanilla. Add eggs one
at a time, stirring well after
each one. Add cocoa, beat
until well blended. Add soy
flour, baking powder and
salt. Spread into pan and
bake about 20-25 minutes.
Let cool.

Topping: melt butter in
saucepan. add cream and
cream cheese, whisking.
Add splenda, and adjust for
tatse. add vanilla and heat
until bubbling. Take off heat
and add peanut butter,
blend with blender. Pour
over brownie crust and
refrigerate a few hours until
firm.


Karen
In Montana

sounds good. do you know the carb count?

Nope, the carb count didn't come with it and I didn't have time to run it. Sorry...

Karen,MT

This sounds yummy. Do you think I could substitute almond flour instead of soy flour or bake mix?

Yeah, I was wondering that too. I have the soy flour but the couple of times I have used it for different things - it has not been pretty So lets give it a try and report back hey?

Alicia

Anyone try these yet? They look like the most "normal" recipe I've seen so far. It's just that the 2 cups of splenda scares me, seems like it would be sickening sweet with the splenda aftertaste. That stuff is expensive and I don't want to try it unless I see that there's been some success. I'm hoping by popping this back up to the top someone will read it and let us know if it worked. Annie

This sounds like a job for my liquid spenda mixed with liquid Cdn sugar twin. I think almond flour instead of soy too...

Brobin

According to Mastercook, making this into 16 brownies would result in 10 carbs, 8 net per brownie.

Now I think this is using its standard peanut butter, so using natural peanut butter might drop it a carb as well.

brobin

PS, I also used granular splenda in the analysis, so liquid splenda would drop it to 5 net.

Not sure where that carb count is coming from. I get:

Butter = 0
Splenda 2 C = 48 carbs
2 tsp vanilla = 1 carb
4 eggs = 2.4 carbs
Unsweetened cocoa = 0.4 carbs/tsp, 3/4C = 37 tsp, so 15 carbs
I cup Atkins bake mix = 12 carbs
-----------------
Total of 78 carbs

Topping:

Cream cheese 8 oz = 6
1 cup heavy cream = 7.5
1/2 C Splenda = 12
1/2 C PB = 17
-----------------
Total of 43 carbs


So a grand total of 121 g of carbs. Let's say you get 24 brownies in a 9x13 pan, that's 5 carbs per brownie.

Oops, misread your post above, brobin. Thought you meant 10 carbs TOTAL, not per brownie.

This seems like a pretty expensive treat, carb-wise.

I also used Almond flour, not baking mix as well as 16 brownies, so big ones!

I think this recipe really calls out for liquid splenda, which dramatically lowers the carb count on these babies. Two cups of grandular Spenda is just too much unless you make them very small.

brobin