Fudge Brownies
- 2/3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon double-acting baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/3 cup (2 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup grapeseed or sunflower oil
- 2 tablespoons mashed ripe banana
- 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup natural sugar
- 1/3 cup plain unsweetened vegan milk
- 1 tablespoon flax seed meal
- 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional)
- 1/3 cup finely chopped toasted nuts (optional)
- Preheat the oven to 325F.
- Line the bottom of an 8-inch square baking dish with a long strip of parchment paper, folding the paper as needed.
- The paper should hang out of the top of the pan; when the brownies are baked you then lift up on the two opposite edges of the paper to cleanly remove the brownie from the pan.
- Alternatively, generously oil the pan and set aside.
- In a bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, and baking powder.
- Stir in the salt and set aside.
- Melt the chocolate chips and oil in a small bowl in the microwave in 30-second intervals until soft.
- Alternatively, melt the chips and oil in a double boiler.
- Stir the chips and oil
- until combined.
- Using a blender or electric hand mixer, blend the melted chips and oil, banana, vanilla, sugar, milk, and flax meal until combined.
- Stir the flour mixture into the wet mixture.
- Fold in the chocolate chips, if using.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan.
- Sprinkle with the nuts, if using.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the pan comes out with a few moist crumbs attached but no wet batter, 20 to 45 minutes, depending on the kind of pan you use.
- Glass baking dishes need longer baking time.
- If your toothpick comes out completely dry, the brownie has over-baked, but is still tasty.
- Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 30 minutes.
- Remove the brownies by pulling up on the parchment paper overhang.
- Cut into squares.
flour, cocoa, doubleacting baking powder, salt, semisweet chocolate chips, grapeseed, mashed ripe banana, vanilla, natural sugar, milk, flax seed, semisweet chocolate chips, nuts
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/fudge-brownies (may not work)