Weight Watchers Chocolate Squares

As you might have gathered from recipes I've posted...I am not entirely (remotely?) health conscious. I'm trying to do a better job of eating smaller portions and choosing better things when I have the chance, but that's where I draw the line.

Several of my friends, though, are doing Weight Watchers right now. It has been frustrating because I want to be able to cook for them, but they can't eat most things I make. And I'm sad when they choose to not eat my cooking...so when you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

My Mom had these little brownies (which are actually more of a cake consistency) at a friends' house and said they were very good. She gave me the recipe, and I made it a couple of weeks ago for a friend...and again yesterday for my sister. They were both really excited about it, so I thought I'd share with you!

The Recipe
1 box dark chocolate cake mix
1 small box fat free, sugar free chocolate fudge instant pudding
1 1/2 cups water
3 egg whites
4 ounces (1/2 cup) natural applesauce.
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips.

Combine all ingredients (except chocolate chips) into a bowl and beat on medium to blend well. Continue to beat for 2 minutes. Fold in 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips. Pour into sprayed 9x13 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.

When cut into 24 pieces, each piece is 2 Weight Watchers points.

Look closely! That's the most name brand stuff you'll ever see in one of my pictures! I was looking for a German chocolate cake mix - but found that Pillsbury actually has a mix called "dark." And I found the "natural" applesauce in Motts' individual cups. Each cup is just about 4 ounces, so no measuring required! Just dump in the cup and go!

I don't know how to separate eggs by doing the little shell trick, so I used my Pampered Chef egg separator. I just separated them over a bowl to catch the egg whites and then I put the yolks in the garbage disposal.

Doesn't take long to dump all the ingredients in a bowl...this is everything but the chocolate chips!

I mixed it up by hand a little first just to keep it from flying all over the kitchen when I turned on the beaters.

When i got it pretty well mixed up, I switched over to the beaters....

And as you can see, the consistency changed quite a bit then.

This is what it looks like after a couple minutes of beating.

Then the chocolate chips go in....

Spread it in the pan....

And here is the baked version!

If you cut them 3 across, 8 down, you'll have your 24 bars! You can top with fat free cool whip if you want....individually freeze the rest and have snacks on the go!