CheeCha Puffs Review {and a Giveaway}

I'm always searching for healthy snacks for my family.  We all love chips but I rarely buy them because they are so high in fat.  I was very excited when I discovered CheeCha Puffs.  They are a potato puffed snack that satisfies your chip craving.  I was even more excited when they sent me a case of some of their flavours!  All of the flavours we received were Gluten Free.  They are very low in fat.  The original flavour actually has 0g of fat!  We received Original, Sea Salt and Vinegar, Fiesta Salsa, Sea Salt and Spiced Pepper and Luscious Lime.

Low Fat Fudge Brownies

I love finding recipes that taste great and are low fat.  I found this recipe at Obsessed with Baking.  I made a few minor changes to the recipe.  I used semi-sweet chocolate instead of bittersweet, reduced the vanilla to 1 tsp (since that is all I had) and I used one egg white.  This is originally a Cook's Illustrated recipe.  So far I have had good results with Cook's Illustrated recipes so I was eager to give this recipe a try.  At first I didn't like this brownie very much.  I don't like coffee and I could taste the coffee.  I took these over to my parents.  My mom really liked them.  The next day I couldn't believe how good these brownies tasted.  I find some chocolate baked goods really do taste better the next day.  I was so sad I only had 4 brownies left.

Quick Brownies

These brownies are super fast to make and bake in 25 minutes.  My major change to this recipe was to replace the melted butter with canola oil.  At CanolaInfo.org they have a conversion chart for substituting oil for melted butter.  I've used this in other recipes and have had no problems.  Also, I used vanilla powder instead of vanilla extract.  If you are using vanilla extract, add it with the wet ingredients.  I didn't add any nuts although I think walnuts would taste good in these.  If you warm the brownies in the microwave, top with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup it makes a really good dessert.