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Vegan Brownies
What you need:
1/4 cup canola oil
1/3 cup water
1 cup organic sugar
1 cup organic unbleached flour
1 tablespoon ground flax seed
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
What you do:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix wet ingredients in large bowl, then dump in all the dry. Don't over mix.
2. Bake for about 20-25 minutes.
They're supposed to look gooey! You can even add your favorite vegan chocolate chips, add coconut, or nuts!
These are so good and normal tasting my meat-eating family couldn’t tell the difference!!!
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Servings:
12-16
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
These were sooo Yummy! I usually keep something sweet on hand to appease the masses. These were a big hit. I even got thanks for not making vegan "this time" hahah ( the masses in my home are omni)
I'd like to try these, but I'm a bit confused....if I use egg replacer, do I add 3 T. of water and still add the 1/3 c. of water in the instructions? Thanks for any help.
I doubled the recipe to fit a 9x13 in. pan and added a cup of choc. chips and 2 tsp. of vanilla extract. They were fudgy without a hint of cakiness just like I like 'em. I can't believe I finally found a vegan brownie that is actually fudgy and not cakey. I've tried many a vegan cakey brownie trying to pass themselves off as fudgy, but these are the real deal.
Wow. Really - wow. The batter was really thick like cookie dough and I was worried :o - but I didn't want to alter the recipe. I should have made it in a 8 x 8 pan - but grabbed the 1st thing I saw (13 x 9). This recipe is really forgiving. The brownies came out excellent. This is the first time I've made homemade brownies and they were great. I doubled back and checked out past comments - apparently there needed to be extra water for the ground flax seed. No matter - excellent, excellent, excellent. :)>>>
O.K. I'm back. I've eaten the whole pan of brownies. Someone save me from myself. :o
Wow. Really - wow. The batter was really thick like cookie dough and I was worried :o - but I didn't want to alter the recipe. I should have made it in a 8 x 8 pan - but grabbed the 1st thing I saw (13 x 9). This recipe is really forgiving. The brownies came out excellent. This is the first time I've made homemade brownies and they were great. I doubled back and checked out past comments - apparently there needed to be extra water for the ground flax seed. No matter - excellent, excellent, excellent. :)>>>
Was out of unsweetened cocoa powder, so I used 1/2 c Ghirardelli sweetened baking powder + 3/4 c sugar.
Mixed the flaxseed with 3 tbsp water before mixing into batter (instructions didn't specify, but you're always supposed to, right?)
Added 1/8 tsp vanilla and 1/2 c chocolate chips.
Had to add another 1/8 c water to get the batter brownie-like.
Result:
way too cakey. They weren't the ideal fudgy, gooey brownies at all, and they didn't get the crust on top. I don't know if it was because of my substitutions- I am probably going to try them again, following the recipe.
I've made these many times, and they were always a little "off" to me. But they were good enough for when I needed a brownie fix. They just weren't sweet enough, so this is how I altered the recipe (they turned out AMAZING!):
Instead of flax oil, I used a single EnerG egg replacer
Instead of 1cup sugar, I used 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and 1tbsp maple syrup
I added chocolate chips.
AMAZING!!! With these changes, they taste JUST like "regular" brownies!
I thought the texture of these brownies was PERFECT! Exactly how mom used to make! I only put 3/4 the sugar but they are stlil sweet and right between fudgey and cakey. Also added mini chocolate chips.
Thank you!
this recipe is a big fat dud. seriously, what "brownies" are you guys eating? can't be these. and it can't be me because i used all of the required ingredients and the proper measurements, cooked it for the recommended time (well, i tried, but i had to cook these longer because they weren't done at 25 minutes) and i tried this recipe THREE times.
1st time - they came out hard as a rock. so the second time i didn't cook them as long (they weren't even close to being done at 20 minutes)
2nd time - came out like cake. i added a bit of egg replacer and applesauce so maybe that's why...
3rd time - still came out cakey. the only modifications i made were adding a bit of applesauce and extra water/oil because all 3 times
the "batter" is like friggin DOUGH. like roll it into a ball, dough. no batter to speak of.
all 3 times i threw in some chocolate chips.
can someone give me a BROWNIE recipe please?
i had a stellllllllar brownie recipe last year but it can't be found now. really, amazing. fudgy, chocolatey chewy but not overly so and not cakey or dry whatsoever.
These turned out pretty well, but are crumbly. I'm not sure why, but the one major alteration I made was subsituting the ground flax seed for "egg replacer" because I didn't have ground flax seed. Perhaps that caused them to dry out a bit I did throw a few whole flax seeds in for the health benefits though, and I tossed in a 1/4 cup of choco chips just for a small flavor boost.
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