Salted Chocolate Vegan Brownies
Vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, heart-healthy
Here is a variation of a fast and easy, vegan and gluten free brownie. Warning! These brownies are a fan favorite - my friends keep asking me to bake them again and again! My secret ingredients are black cocoa powder and large crystal salt. You can use any cocoa powder you have on hand, but black cocoa powder makes this recipe extra special. Using simple pantry ingredients, plus yummy applesauce and vegan butter in this batter makes for a moist and decadent Bliss-Brownie. Create a surprisingly healthy dessert that looks and tastes amazing.
Salted Chocolate Vegan Brownies
© Sweets You Can Eat by Megan Matthews and Patricia Schroeck 2019-2022
Ingredients
1 and 1/2 cups coconut sugar
1/2 cup unsalted vegan butter (at cool room temperature)
1/2 cup applesauce
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup black cocoa powder
1/2 cup gluten-free flour mix *
1 teaspoon baking powder
large crystal salt
Makes 12 large brownies
*use my gluten free 1-to-1 flour mix recipe or a store-bought 1-to-1 GF baking flour mix.
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Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Coat a 12-count single-square brownie tin liberally with coconut baking spray or use a 12-count cupcake tin lined with cupcake papers.
2. Combine sugar, butter, applesauce and vanilla in a bowl. Using an electric mixer, mix ingredients on medium speed for 2 minutes until batter is smooth and creamy. Stir in black cocoa, flour and baking powder.
3. Pour the batter into the prepared pan to make 12 large brownies. Top each brownie with large crystal salt.
4. Bake brownies 15 minutes until the top is set. Serve brownies at room temperature.
Photos by Brian Byllesby
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