Date Brownies| Healthier Alternative| No Sugar, Only Dates

These cake brownies are entirely sweetened with dates. The dates not only give flavor and dense chewy texture, but also add to the nutritive value.

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Ingredients for Date Brownies:
For the date paste:
1 cup of pitted/seedless dates
approx. ½ to 1 cup of milk/water
Dry Ingredients:
¾ cup flour (wheat flour/all-purpose flour/maida/powdered oats),
½ Cup of Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
Wet Ingredients:
2 eggs or (1 cup condensed milk or 1 cup apple sauce or 1 cup plain yogurt/dahi);
1/3 cup of cooking oil ( or 1/3 cup Flavorless olive oil or 1/3 cup Mashed avocado or 1/3 cup Melted butter or 1/3 cup Ghee)
¼ cup milk or (1/3 cup of Almond milk or Soy milk or Coconut milk or Cashew milk)
1 tsp vanilla extract/ ½ tsp vanilla essence
Dates paste (prepared in 1st step)
For the dates icing (optional):
½ cup dates
1 tbsp cocoa powder
¼ to ½ cup of water