Healthy Brownies Or Chosen Brownies For Passover
- Brownies
- 4 large frozen bananas
- 4.5 tbsp unsweetened pear butter (or apple butter if you cant get pear butter)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp coarse sea salt
- 8 tbsp 100% cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 cup filtered water or non-dairy milk
- 2 large organic eggs (or vegan egg replacer, or 2 "flax-eggs")
- 2 cups quinoa flakes
- Vegan Chocolate Glaze
- 1 cup Enjoy Life brand vegan chocolate chips or another vegan chocolate chips
- 1 heaping teaspoon unsweetened pear butter
- 1 dash sea salt
- 1 dash cinnamon
- NB: The brownie layer is fairly cake-like. If you want something fudgier, reduce the quinoa flakes to 1.5 cups and bake for only 10 to 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Blend bananas, pear butter, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and half the sea salt together until very smooth and creamy. Taste. The texture will be like gelato (its delicious actually and is the same base I use in my Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies!). Scrape down sides and blend again.
- Add the cocoa and blend until smooth. TASTE! Add more pear butter if it is at all bitter. It needs to be a bit sweeter than you want it. Add olive oil and the chia seeds and blend. Add water and blend until smooth. Add the eggs and blend until smooth, about a minute. Add the quinoa flakes and blend until very smooth, about a minute. Scrape down sides and blend again.
- Pour batter into a large lasagne dish lined with parchment paper. Spread the batter to the edges, ensuring that it is distributed evenly. Bake in the oven until slightly risen. A fork or toothpick inserted in the middle should come out nearly clean after about 20 minutes. Cool on stove-top. Make the chocolate glaze while the brownie layer cools.
- Glaze:
- Melt all Vegan Chocolate Glaze ingredients until very smooth and glossy in a small sauce pan over low heat. Allow to cool slightly. Pour over cooled cake layer.
- Variations for serving:rnrnIf you want the chocolate glaze to set like a doughnut glaze, refrigerate or freeze the iced brownies for an hour before serving. If you want gooey hot brownies, don't cool the brownie layer, make the chocolate glaze while the brownies bake. Pour the hot glaze over brownies, slice and enjoy!
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Taken from food52.com/recipes/21481-healthy-brownies-or-chosen-brownies-for-passover (may not work)