Cacao brownies - vegan

Name: Cacao brownies - vegan
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 1/3 cup almond flour/ finely ground almonds; 1/2 tsp baking powder; Pinch salt; 1/4 cup cacao powder; 1 cup cacao nibs or roughly chopped 85%+ chocolate; 1/2 cup coconut oil; 2/3 cup maple syrup; 3/4 cup apple sauce; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped

Alessandra @alessa

That are vegan and refined-sugarfree 🎉They’re sweet ... but not the usual sweetness you get with a sugar-filled brownie. The cacao powder and the cacao nibs give then a deep, rich chocolatey taste. If you like dark chocolate, you’ll be fine! 85% chocolate works beautifully too instead of the nibs. #vegan #refinedsugarfree

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Ingredients

1 1/3 cupalmond flour/ finely ground almonds
1/2 tspbaking powder
Pinchsalt
1/4 cupcacao powder
1 cupcacao nibs or roughly chopped 85%+ chocolate
1/2 cupcoconut oil
2/3 cupmaple syrup
3/4 cupapple sauce
2 tspvanilla extract
1/2 cupwalnuts, roughly chopped

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 180C. Line a baking tin with baking paper.
2

Mix the almond flour, baking powder, salt and cacao together.
3

Melt the coconut oil in a pan on a gentle heat. If you’re using 85% chocolate, melt it along with the oil but use a bowl over a saucepan that has water simmering in it - like in the photo. No need to do this with cacao nibs because they don’t melt 😁
4

Mix the oil + cacao nibs + the other wet ingredients.
5

Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. (Without the walnuts.)
6

Now it’s time for the walnuts 🎉Add half of the walnuts and gently fold them into the mixture.
7

Pour the mix into the tin and sprinkle the remaining walnuts on top. Bake for ~ 25 mins. You have to wait for them to cool before cutting or they fall apart 😕
8

But once they’ve cooled down... enjoy! 😋 Best kept in the fridge.