No Flour (Black Bean) Brownies Recipe
Do you want to feed your family SUPER healthy, AND REALLY tasty food? May be I am TOTALLY weird, but when I saw this recipe for Secret Ingredient Brownies, I had to give it a shot. Even though no one in our family is gluten-free, I love to find recipes that have no flour it them as we are moving away from white flour. We still occasionally eat food with white flour, but now it is in moderation and doesn’t dominate our lifestyle like it did in the past.
I tried this recipe a few times and modified it a bit. I had several people try this, and NO ONE could guess the secret ingredient…BLACK BEANS!!! Some said they were really “moist”, “fluffy”, “had chocolatey goodness”, all like a real brownie. One did think they might be gluten-free (this person has a mom that is g-f). If you like brownies, you have got to try these at least once!!! You just can’t make a fair assessment without first trying these.
No Flour Black Bean Brownie Recipe
The Ingredients:
- 1-15.5 oz. can black beans, WELL-RINSED and drained
- 3 eggs
- 2 T butter (I used the coconut oil, too, and I didn’t like the aftertaste of the coconut oil-if I would have used refined coconut oil, I wouldn’t have tasted it)
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1 dash of salt
- 2 T vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup honey (I’ve also used organic sugar)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional
- 1/4-1/2 cup dark chocolate chips, optional
The Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Blend all ingredients except the chocolate chips and nuts in a high powered blender (I don’t know, but I am guessing a food processor would work, too).
- Grease an 8×8 baking pan.
- Pour batter in the pan.
- Top with walnuts and chocolate chips if you wish.
- Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until a toothpick can come out of the middle clean (if you use chocolate chips, this may not happen since they melt in the oven).
This batch cracked a bit, but still came out together and not crumbly. I did over mix the batter in the blender, so try to avoid that.
Did you make these? Did you fool anyone? What did you think?
