Chocolate walnut brownies

[rydra_wong]

These are the best iteration yet of a flourless brownie recipe that I've been perfecting for a while.

Ingredients:

2 large eggs
120g butter
1 cup unsweetened cocoa/cacao powder
1 and 1/3 cup coconut sugar (or regular brown sugar)
1/3 tsp sea salt, crushed
50g walnuts, finely chopped
40-50g 100% cocoa chocolate, finely chopped

Melt the butter in a bain marie. While that's going on, mix the sugar, salt, eggs and walnuts.

Once the butter's melted, remove from the heat, stir in the cocoa powder, then add to the rest. Add the chocolate last of all.

Bake at 200 degrees C for 30 minutes. They get even better after they've been in the fridge for a while.

ETA note: if you'd like to make them dairy-free as well, you can replace the melted butter with 120g almond butter plus several tsbp of water, just enough to make the mixture stir-able. I left the walnuts out of this version for fear of nut overload, but YMMV.

Comments

[nerakrose]

i've heard of those, but never actually tried them! my brother swears by them (he's a crossfit type, so for him it's about protein, or something, idk). i've baked chocolate cakes with shredded red beets and (different recipe) shredded zucchini, but those weren't flourless. the shredded veg adds a lot of moisture, which i can only recommend. the beets one was so heavy on the cocoa and chocolate the earthy beet flavour was completely masked (which is a nice way to say the cake did not in fact taste like dirt). i'll try to see if i can find the recipe, i don't know if i saved it...

this is the recipe i use for the flourless chocolate/banana cake/brownies, except i omit the cinnamon: https://eatlivepaleo.com/2011/12/26/flourless-choc-cinnamon-banana-cake/