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Vegan Black Bean Brownies – V Heart Healthy V Delicious Accidentally GF!

Course brownies, chocolate, sweets
Cuisine vegan dessert, vegan snack
Keyword black bean brownies, vegan brownies
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 16 brownies, 1 brownie per serving

Ingredients

  • 1 15 ounce can black beans drained and rinsed
  • 1/2 cup cashew butter oil-free if possible aka homemeade
  • 1 cup organic sugar
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • 1 tablespoon espresso powder* see Sound Bites
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons aquafaba chickpea water (double amount for cake-like)
  • 1/2 cup oat flour simply grind whole oats in food processor/blender until flour-like consistency)
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 tbsp cacao powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 ounces vegan chocolate chips: I used Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips
  • 3 ounces walnuts chopped

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
  2. Line an 8 x 8 baking pan with parchment paper or spray with cooking spray.
  3. In the bowl of a food processor add black beans, cashew butter, sugar, maple syrup and espresso powder.
  4. Process for about a minute until smooth.

  5. In a small bowl, whisk together oat flour, baking powder cacao powder and salt.

  6. Add flour mix to food processor and process until combined.
  7. Add aquafaba and process for about 15-20 seconds until shiny.
  8. Add chocolate chips and 2/3 nuts and using a few quick pulses, blend until just combined.
  9. Pour mixture into prepared baking dish and sprinkle on remaining walnuts.
  10. Bake for about 50 minutes until toothpick comes out nearly dry.
  11. Cool, cut into 16 squares.
  12. Enjoy.
  13. Once cooled, you can freeze them. Take out of freezer about an hour before serving.

Recipe Notes

Experts and novices agree that adding coffee to chocolate enhances chocolate flavor. I could find no article that credits anyone with the idea to do so. Perhaps is because coffee and chocolate hit European shores at roughly the same time (mid-1600's) and became rapidly popular? I did find one reference, however. Apparently in 16th century Venice chocolate was mixed with coffee and called bavareisa and became immensely popular. The rest is history