Chocolate chips, Oreo, cookie dough, gooey brownie centre… These brownie bars check all the boxes for ultimate chocolate treat!

SERVES 12 // COOKING TIME 55 min

INGREDIENTS
250 g unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla essence
2½ cups flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips
176 g pack Oreos
½ box brownie mix, prepared as per packet instructions

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and line a deep 30 × 20 cm baking tin with baking paper.
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, followed by the vanilla, and mix lightly. Add the flour, bicarb and salt, and mix well. Fold in the chocolate chips.
3. Press dough into the baking tin. Bake for 25 minutes.
4. Arrange the Oreos on top of the baked base in a single layer. Spread the brownie batter on top.
5. Bake for 20 minutes, until the top looks slightly underbaked, but the edges are golden brown.
6. Allow the brownie to cool for a while, then turn out of the tin and cut into 12 bars.

Recipe & styling: Amerae Vercueil
Photography: Andreas Eiselen // HMimages.co.za

These cookies ‘n’ cream bars are just as delicious, but a little bit on the healthier side if you’re worried about a sugar overload!

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Freesweet is a sugar replacement unlike any other. It’s carb-free, contains no artificial ingredients, tastes absolutely delicious and bakes beautifully. Don’t believe us? Try it out for yourself in this decadent chocolate chip sugar-free banana bread.

MAKES 1 loaf // PREP TIME 10 min // COOK TIME 50 min

INGREDIENTS
80 g almond butter
50 g apple sauce
25 g melted coconut oil
2 tsp Freesweet
3 eggs
4 bananas, mashed
70 g coconut flour
Sugar-free chocolate, chopped (measure with your heart)
Pinch salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking powder

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a loaf tin.
2. Add the almond butter, apple sauce, coconut oil and Freesweet to the mashed bananas and mix until combined.
3. Add the coconut flour, chocolate, salt, cinnamon and baking powder. Mix well.
4. Top with extra chocolate and banana if desired and bake for 15 minutes, until a knife comes out clean.

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Did you know that per gram, chocolate chips actually cost more than chocolate bars? So whenever a recipe calls for them, buy a slab of choccy instead, pop it into a ziploc bag and pound it with a rolling pin to make your own. Try it out to make our triple chocolate chip cookies!

MAKES 10 // COOKING TIME 30 min

INGREDIENTS
100g brown sugar
100g caster sugar
100g butter, at room temperature
225g flour
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
140g milk chocolate, melted
85g white chocolate, chopped into chunks
85g dark chocolate chips

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 180°C and line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the brown sugar, caster sugar and butter with a wooden spoon. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
3. Gently press large handfuls of the cookie dough on to the baking trays, flattening to about 1½ cm thick.
4. Bake for 8–9 minutes, until golden and firm to the touch. Transfer to a wire rack to cool slightly. Serve warm.

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