These vegan brownies are gluten free, vegan and totally delicious. They taste like any other brownie you may have met, except have a more complex and deep taste associated with the chocolate, almost a savory sweet. They are also not dry, which is more than I can say for most other brownies I’ve experienced of the non-veg variety. This is another one of those recipes that you may as well just double and bake off another batch for the masses. They freeze well and keep in the fridge for a long time so you can enjoy them longer.
Ingredients
- 1/3 of a 15 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed (about 1/2 cup)
- 1 flax egg (1 T flaxseed meal + 2.5 T water)
- 1 T coconut oil (or other oil)
- scant 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- dash salt
- 1/2 t vanilla
- 1/4 c granulated sugar
- 1/2 t baking powder
- heaping 1/2 t finely ground espresso powder or instant coffee granules
- 1/4 c semisweet chocolate chips (dairy free for vegan)*
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 6 muffin tins. Prepare flax egg by combining flax and water in small bowl and letting it rest for 3-5 minutes. Combine black beans through instant coffee in a food processor (sift in sugar if clumpy) and puree. Then stir in chocolate chips. Pour batter into muffin tins and smooth the tops with a spoon. Bake for 17 minutes or until tops are dry and starting to pull away from the sides. Let cool for 30 minutes before removing from pan (I baked mine in cupcake papers so I didn’t have to mess with clean up and I baked another batch in mini cupcake tin form).
*PETA happens to have a very good/searchable data base on their website for vegan products to sub for regular products. I understand they are polarizing but they also have the mad money to make tools that are incredible for people searching for animal safe items. Despite the fact that they sell half shirts still (thanks Pamela Anderson), I really like the info they have available on their site. If you just can’t bring yourself to check out the tools, typically you can find Ghiradelli Chips at the grocery store which are accidentally vegan.
Recipe courtesy: Dana Schultz
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