Vegan Brownies

I came across this recipe a few weeks ago but haven't had the opportunity to try it out. The weather had been pretty favourable lately and with my mum up for a visit, the kids and I have been gallivanting around with her. After all sunny days are such a 'rare occurance' in Britain it just didn't seem right to waste the sunshine and spent it indoors baking! However I had the opportunity today what with the heavens generously showering us with rain and D having some sort of a stomach bug which had him throwing up half the night, it certainly wasn't a good day to take our itchy feet out for exploring. So to cheer myself and D up, I decided to make some vegan brownies.

The recipe seemed easy enough and I had most of the ingredients. Read some of the comments under the reviews and decided to do some adjustments to the recipe. Yeah, yeah ... my itchy head can just never seem to leave recipes alone. :)

Anyway here are the results and I was pretty satisfied with it. It wasn't too sweet and it wasn't dry although I lessen the amount of oil in the original recipe. J loved it but unfortunately D didn't seem to have an appetite. Poor little guy he must be feeling really awful as it was so unlike him to refuse something chocolatey.

Just out of the oven

Cooling on the rack

Brownies anyone?

The Recipe

Ingredients

200g gluten free flour

50g wholegrain spelt flour

55g stevia blend

75g vegan dark chocolate (chopped)

55g organic cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

100ml maple syrup

100ml oat milk

50g raw almond butter

125ml vegetable oil

1 tsp almond extract

Method

1. Preheat oven at 160C
2. In large bowl add flour, stevia, chopped chocolate, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Stir until it looks evenly mixed.
3. Add in almond butter. Pour in maple syrup, oat milk, vegetable oil and almond extract. Mix well until the mixture looks evenly blended.
4. Spread in baking tin (9x13 in)
5. Bake for 15 mins until top is no longer shiny. Cool for 10 mins before cutting into squares.