Vegan brownies (uses flax eggs)

 Saw this on Insta, tried it out because I had some leftover vegan butter. 

From A Big Man’s World:

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoon ground flaxseed
• 6 tablespoon brewed coffee can use for water
• 1 cup chocolate chips of choice
• 1 cup coconut sugar * See notes
• 6 tablespoon vegan butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour can use gluten-free all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1-2 cups chocolate chips of choiceoptional

Instructions

• Prepare your flax egg by combining your ground flaxseed with your brewed (chilled) coffee. Let it sit for 10 minutes, to form a gel.
• Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Line a square pan with parchment paper and set aside.
• In a microwave-safe bowl or stovetop, melt your chocolate chips of choice. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, add your vegan butter and coconut sugar, and whisk well. Add in your prepared flax eggs, melted chocolate, vanilla, and almond extract, and mix well, until glossy.
• Sift through your flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder and mix until just combined. Do not overmix. If using chocolate chips, fold them through. 
• Transfer your brownie batter into the lined pan. Bake your brownies for 30-35 minutes. 
• Remove brownies from the oven and let cool completely, before slicing into 12 pieces.

My notes:

1. Not balanced, not chocolate -y enough, but good texture, and uses half of the normal amount of butter so would consider a retry. I also sort of messed this up the first time in that I accidentally used 6 oz of butter not 6 TBSPs, so I had to double the recipe and I didn’t double the amount of coffee, just added more water… I used imitation vanilla too

2. I modified the directions a bit— 1 cup chips = 6oz chocolate, so I just melted 12 oz of bars and also melted the vegan butter into it too because I didn’t understand how else to do it. I obviously only used vanillin and not the almond extract. I also used white sugar and not coconut sugar. 

3. Would consider making again only because the texture was pretty fantastic, considering it has half the the usual amount of butter.