Gluten free Brownies
 
 
Intense fudgy gluten free chocolate brownies
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Ingredients
  • ½ cup whole almonds, blanched, skinned and dried (if you have almond flour then use that)
  • ⅓ cup rolled oats
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 115 grams dark chocolate
  • ½ cup walnuts
  • ⅔ cup shakkar/brown sugar/unrefined sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • ¼ tsp sea salt
  • 5 tbsp coconut oil
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 C.
  2. Grease an 8 by 8 square pan with butter and line it with parchment paper.
  3. Melt the chocolate and oil over a double boiler on low heat. Once melted, mix, remove from heat and set aside to cool slightly.
  4. To make the dry mix: in your food processor or mixer grinder, add the dried blanched and skinned almonds, rolled oats, and cocoa powder. Pulse the mixture till you get a fine meal, making sure to not blend too much else you will get almond butter. Transfer to a bowl- sift in the baking powder, and add in the nutmeg.
  5. In another bowl, beat together the eggs and sugar till thick- when you lift up the whisk, the beaten egg mixture should stream down pretty evenly in “ribbons", rather than in chunks. Mix in the vanilla .
  6. Working slowly, whisk the egg/sugar mixture into the saucepan of melted chocolate. Whisk until smooth.
  7. Stir in the dry ingredients and fold until just mixed. Do not over mix.
  8. Add in the chopped walnuts.
  9. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
  10. Sprinkle sea salt on top. Wait to cool, before slicing the brownies.
Note: In my oven it took 15 minutes for the tester to come out mostly clean but with still a few crumbs on it. Because my oven heats quite a bit and some of my baked goods start burning from the top, I generally place another sheet pan half way through baking on the top shelf to avoid that. In case you feel the top is burning and the brownies aren't fully cooked, then you can place a foil on top. Be careful to not over bake else you will lose out on the fudgy texture.
Recipe by The Novice Housewife at https://novicehousewife.com/2020/03/30/gluten-free-brownies/