Healthy-ish Gluten Free Brownies
With no refined sugar or flours these moist, rich and gooey brownies are guaranteed to be one of your new favorties!
Author: Leslie Stokes
why i love these Healthy-ish brownies
who doesn’t love a good brownie?
When you have nutriton limitations or are simply just trying to cut refined sugar and eat a moderativly healthy diet, finding a good sweet treat is hard to find.
These brownies are free of refined sugar + flours, use just a few simple ingridents, guilt free and taste amazing! this is one recipe you are going to make over and over again!
I am calling them healthy-ish because even though they are “clean”, they still have calories, but I promise what you put into your body matters more than the amount of calories you eat in a day!
What you need:
- Oat Flour: I usually just make my own by blending gf oats in the food processer for a few minutes. I like to do a big batch and just store them in the pantry to save time for whenever i get a sweet tooth. You do not have to use gluten free oat for this, personal preference.
- cocoa powder: buy a good brand! I love the one from Trader Joes!
- salt
- baking soda
- baking powder
- eggs: room temperature
- Coconut oil: you want it to be melted, but not too hot, so that way it does not harden when adding in the other ingredients
- maple syrup or honey
- apple sauce
- vanilla extract
- Good Quality Chocolate: since we are keeping these brownies healthy-ish I love a good dark chocolate for this recipe! You can use choclate chips for this recipe or my personal favorite, a good quality- no nonsense chocolate bar! I love this dark chocolate bar from Red Chocolate – with no refined sugar added to these bars this handcrafted chocolate is made with simple ingredients, zero sugar and 45% less calories + it taste amazing and adds such a rich flavor to these fudgy brownies!
Let's make it!
no mixers needed here-
- you are just going to mix your wet ingreidents together in a large bowl
- in a smaller bowl mix together the dry ingredients
- stir the wet and the dry ingredients together until combined and then fold in the chopped up chocolate bar or chocolate chips
- I do suggest using parchment paper in an 8×8 brownie pan
- bake at 350 for 22-25 minutes!
- cut into 12-16 squares!
Make sure you let them cool all the way before cutting or they might crumble just a little!
I hope you make these!
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Tips for making these Healthy-ish Brownies-
Where can I buy oat flour?
I usually just make mine at home by blending gluten free oats in the food proccessor for about 3 minutes. I always buy a big bag at Trader Joes when i go, but here is another great brand that i love from amazon!
Sugar subsitutions:
You can subsitute the maple for honey or monk fruit, but I would not reccomend subsituting for any other sweetener like stevia, i’m just not a fan, but you do you!
Lining the pan and letting them cool:
don’t forget to line the pan with parchment paper! If you don’t have any, generously spray with an olive or avocado oil. GF baking can be tempermental at times, so I definetly suggest waiting for them to cool down for at least 30 minutes before cutting!
Healthy-ish Gluten Free Brownies
Ingredients
- 1 cup oat flour gluten free
- ½ cup cocoa powder 70% or higher
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup coconut oil melted, but not too hot
- 3 eggs room temp
- ½ cup maple syrup or honey
- ¼ cup apple sauce no sugar added
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup dark chocolate chips
Let's Make It
- Preheat the oven to 350℉
- In a small bowl, mix together the dry ingredients: oat flour, cocoa powder, salt , baking soda, baking powder and set aside
- In a large bowl mix the wet ingredients together: coconut oil, eggs, maple syrup, apple sauce, vanilla- whisk until smooth***if your coconut oil hardens because the eggs or maple syrup is cold- fill a bowl with hot water and place the bowl with the wet ingredients over the bowl of hot water for a few minutes. This will slightly warm up the wet ingredients just enough so that the coconut oil melts.
- Add the dry ingredients into the wet and stir until combined
- Fold in the chocolate chips or chopped up chocolate bar
- Line an 8x8 brownie pan with parchment paper, pour in the brownie batter and bake at 350℉ for 22-25 minutes!
- Let the Brownies cool for at least 30 minutes before cutting into 12 squares!
