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Stay Basic This Winter With These 100-Calorie Pumpkin Brownies

This article is written by a student writer from the Spoon University at PITT chapter.

Friends, baking-challenged chocolate lovers, lazy bums, broke people, vegans, REJOICE. Fix your chocolate cravings with a brownie recipe that only needs 2 ingredients, an oven and a sweet tooth. What makes this recipe special is that it uses pumpkin instead of oil and eggs. Substituting with the canned vegetable saves about 100 calories and 8g of fat per serving. That’s right, you can indulge.

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Easy

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:
1 boxed brownie mix
1 can pumpkin

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 325°F.

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2. In a large bowl, combine brownie mix and pumpkin by mixing the ingredients together. The mixture will be thicker than normal brownie batter.

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3. Pour the batter into baking dish and spread out evenly.

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4. Bake according to directions on the box.

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5. Let cool before devouring. Or not. Who I am to tell you what to do?

Recipe adapted from YouTube user Mind Over Munch.

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