Healthy Vegan Brownies in 30 Minutes!

Craving something as decadent and moist as brownies but don’t feel like dealing with the sugar/oil/processed crap high afterwards? Don’t worry, I got you covered! These healthy vegan brownies are a beautiful mixture of chickpeas (garbanzo beans) and almond butter that mesh together like you wouldn’t believe.

Bonus: These are 100% cruelty-free!

 

When I made them the first time I soon discovered that creating the perfect vegan brownies was not as easy as I thought. I tried different recipes and mixed up the ingredients several times, sometimes they came out too dry to be even called a brownie, or too similar to a weird cooked chocolate mousse.But I was determined, and so were my kids, who really wanted me to succeed! This recipe I came out with it’s the most amazing fudgy, gooey brownie you could ever taste!To make it even more perfect usually try and invest in good quality ingredients, especially for the chickpeas and the chocolate chips, who are quite difficult to find diary-free. Also, and I cannot stress this enough, let them cool down before eating them. I know, I know, it’s sooo temping when they come out of the oven to just take a bite, the whole house smells like chocolate, and you just want to check how they turned out, right?But trust me on this, let them cool down as much as possible, sometimes I even let them sit in the fridge for a couple of hours. And by the way, this goes for almost everything sweet that comes out the oven. You gotta be patient.So, now you have everything to go and make the most delicious vegan brownies, let me know how they turn out!Enjoy!

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What you will need for these Healthy Vegan Brownies

Ingredients Required:

Chickpeas

Almond Butter

Maple Syrup

Cocoa Powder

Vanilla Extract

Baking Soda

Sea Salt

Vegan Chocolate Chips

Fun Options to Add In!

Walnuts

Sprinkles

Pecans

 

 

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Compostable & Unbleached Parchment Paper

The parchment paper by “If You Care” is unbleached, chlorine free, and compostable. I have used this up to the highest oven setting without any issues! Paper, in it’s natural state is beige or light brown. For years people have subjected it to a bleaching process to create the white sheets we all know and love. Unfortunately, cleaning the paper is having the opposite effect on the environment. The most common bleaching agent – chlorine dioxide (ClO2) – occurs naturally as a component of salt, but once it separates from it’s natural pair it begins to cause problems. The paper bleaching process deposits chlorine in the lakes and streams where mills are most commonly located, and once there it bonds with organic matter in the form of dioxins. Dioxins are a group of highly toxic chemicals that are thought to pose negative effects on reproductive and immune system development, as well as cause several kinds of cancers. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, there is no safe level of dioxin exposure.

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