Instructions: Combine coffee granules and hot water in a large bowl; stir well. Add sugar, butter, vanilla, egg whites, and egg; stir with a wire whisk until well-blended.

Combine flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder; stir well. Add flour mixture to coffee mixture, and stir until well-blended. Spread batter into an 8-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes; let cool in pan.

Yield: 16 brownies (serving size: 1 brownie).

by Alice Medrichs brother, Michael, for a boy who had just had a liver transplant and couldnt tolerate fat.

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