The best gooey vegan brownies recipe
Servings: brownies
Equipment:
Ingredients:
Melting Ingredients
- 180 g Dark chocolate broken into small chunks
- 200 g Vegan butter
- 50 g Maple syrup
- 2 tbsp White miso
Dry Ingredients
- 110 g Gluten-free self-raising flour
- 50 g Cacao powder
'Egg' Mix
- 9 Tbsp Aquafaba approx. one tin of chickpeas
- 200 g Soft light brown sugar
Extra
- 40 g Walnut pieces broken up into small pieces
- 40 g Date Pieces roughly chopped
Instructions:
- Place all the 'melting' ingredients together in a heatproof bowl. Place over a saucepan with boiling water and melt slowly to avoid splitting. Leave the mix to cool to room temperature.
- Sieve the flour and cocoa powder together into a bowl. Keep the sieve for later.
- Preheat oven to 160C Fan/180C Conventional
- Now start whisking the chickpea water using a mixer (or handheld electric whisk). Whisk for about 10 minutes, until you start to see stiff peaks forming (as if you were making meringue). Test that the mix is semi-solid and won't fall on your head if you tip it upside down!
- Once stiff, start whisking in the sugar one spoonful at a time so that it slowly incorporates and maintains its firmness. It should end up looking shiny and stiff.
- Once the chocolate mixture is cool, fold it into the whisked up aquafaba mix using a large metal spoon. Make sure you don't beat any of the air out! What you should end up with is a chocolate mousse substance.
- Sieve the flour mixture into the mousse and fold this in until it's just about incorporated.
- Fold in the walnuts and date pieces until combined.
- Pour the mix into a greaseproof paper-lined tin and carefully push the mix so it fills the whole tin evenly
- Bake in the oven for 25 minutes. Check that there is a crisp layer on the top of the brownie and that it only wobbles slightly. If not, put it back in for another 5/10 minutes. You can put foil over the top to make sure it doesn't burn.
- Let it cool down/scoff it down as soon as it's cool enough to eat...maybe add vegan vanilla ice cream and pretend like you were supposed to eat it warm!