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- Hello my friends, welcome to my channel.
If you're new here, my name is Alyssa.
Today I have got a fabulous
vegan dessert recipe
in store for you,
and you guys are going
to gobble it right up.
We are making fudgy,
gooey, absolutely delicious
vegan almond butter brownies.
These are fudgy and they
just taste incredible.
They're also really healthy,
they're also gluten-free,
and, like I said, they are vegan.
So if you do wanna make this recipe,
it's already up on the blog
for you and ready to go.
You can find the link right
down in the description box
that will have the instruction list,
more ingredients, photos,
everything you need to make it.
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All right, so we are going to
get started with our brownies.
The first thing we're gonna do
is add our flax egg into our bowl.
Then we're gonna in some apple sauce
and you'll notice that the recipe
actually calls for coconut oil.
This is how you can make them oil-free.
So you're just gonna sub the coconut oil
with either apple sauce or mashed banana.
We're also gonna add in
some creamy almond butter.
If you're not an almond butter fan,
you can also use peanut
butter, cashew butter,
sunflower seed butter, you name it.
And then we're also gonna
add in some vanilla extract
which just gives it a
nice little flavor boost.
Just mix everything together
until it is smooth and creamy.
It's gonna be on the thicker
side but that's totally fine.
Then we're gonna add
in our dry ingredients.
So, for our dry ingredients
we are using quinoa flour
as well as raw cacao powder
or unsweetened cocoa powder.
Coconut sugar is going to be
our sweetener for this recipe.
And then we're gonna add
in some baking powder
and some sea salt for flavor.
And then basically you're just gonna have
to mix this altogether.
You could either use a spatula, a spoon.
You could do this all in a stand mixer,
you could use a hand mixer.
Basically just mix it all together
until everything is combined.
Once you have a thick-ish dough,
this is kind of what you're looking for,
it's a thick traditional brownie butter,
we are going to pour this into our tin.
So I like to use a square
eight-by-eight pan for my brownies.
That just gives them a
little bit of better height.
If you're wanting a thinner brownie
then you can do it in a nine-by-nine.
And make sure that you are
lining it with parchment paper
and then just kind of
grease the open sides
so that nothing sticks.
Once you have your
butter totally in there,
you can use your spatula
to kind of spread it out.
You can see that it's thick,
but just use a spatula, a wooden spoon,
or even the back of a metal spoon
to just spread everything evenly.
Make sure that you push
it into the corners.
I find that holding the
parchment paper to the side
helps you keep it kind of centered,
'cause it can move around a lot
and it's hard to keep
everything evenly distributed.
So just make sure you're kind of
pushing everything into the corners
and get it as smooth
as possible on the top.
Once everything is ready to
go, you are ready to bake them.
So we're going to pop
these in a 350-degree oven
until they are cooked
through in the middle.
And this is what they looked like
when they come out of the oven.
Now, one thing to know is
that you are gonna wanna let
them cool completely in the pan
before you slice them.
So once you're ready to slice
them and they've cooled,
you can just pull the parchment paper
directly out of the pan
and then slice it up into squares.
And one other thing to know is
that if you are making these oil-free,
they're gonna be quite as fudgy
as if you had that extra fat.
The fat is gonna help give them
a little bit of extra moisture.
So these ones with the apple sauce
are a little bit more on the cakey side,
but I know you guys love
vegan and oil-free recipes
so I wanted to give you
that option as well.
And then the final touch that I love doing
on top of these brownies just to give them
a little extra pizazz is to
melt some vegan chocolate chips
in just a bowl in the microwave
and I just drizzle the chocolate
all over the top of the brownies.
It makes it look so pretty
and it just adds that little
extra pizazz, like I said.
And then finishing everything off
with some chopped up walnuts.
And that, my friends, is how to make
my easy vegan, fudgy,
delicious, delectable,
so tasty and actually super
healthy almond butter brownies.
I really hope you guys
give this recipe a try
'cause it is so good,
and you also absolutely fold things in.
If you are somebody that likes
walnuts inside of your brownies,
maybe you wanna make a
double chocolate chip brownie
by stirring in some chocolate chips.
You could add pecans.
Basically whatever you want,
you can stir into the butter
and it won't affect it as well.
So I hope you guys love it,
and happy brownie eating.
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And there you have it, my friends.
I hope you enjoyed this
fabulous brownie recipe.
I'm a brownie lover, these are so great,
I know you guys are gonna love them,
and they're also really easy to make
and they have an amazing texture.
So if you do end up making them,
I would love to see a photo on Instagram.
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