Chocolate slice variation.

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I eat and how it effects me. Mind/ body connections and general well being. This has led to me reading a lot of whole food, clean eating and Paleo based blogs and articles and I've made some small changes to my diet. I have found so many delicious Almond Meal based options that I decided to start playing with it for myself.

 I adapted this recipe by taking out half the flour and subbing with Almond meal and increasing the coconut content. The cooking time had to be adapted slightly too.

Ingredients:- 

125g melted butter

3/4 cup wholemeal flour

3/4 cup Almond meal

3/4 cup desiccated coconut ( I use organic ) 

1 cup Brown sugar

1 egg

2 tbsp cocoa

1 tsp vanilla

Method:-

Mix it all up. Press it into a lined slice tin ( it will be quite sticky and a bit hard to manipulate. )

I baked it for 18 mins at 180 and left it sitting in the oven for another 7 minutes after I had turned it off .

When it was coolish I spread melted chocolate over the top instead of using icing.

Making this change really added to the delicious factor and changed the consistency to something more like a brownie. I think I could have gone with less butter too. All in all I'm feeling good about it for my first attempt at using this ingredient. Let me know if you try it. x