I did it, finally – Flour and sugar-free coconut brownies

Hey there!

Anyone craving some chocolate? Come on, admit it, you so feel like a delicious moist chocolate brownie. But you weren’t going to have sweets this week, you were going to be super healthy and only eat greens, am I right? Well just make these, try my sugar and flour free chocolate coconut brownies, they’re basically salad but look like brownies. They’re full of nutritious ingredients and taste absolutely divine.

Though in all seriousness, I just love experimenting with recipes and bringing ordinary recipes to a whole other level, whether I try to omit flour, dairy or sugar. I just love the challenge of combining unexpected ingredients and actually creating something truly delicious. Those recipes being somewhat ‘healthified’ is just kind of a by-product of this rather strange passion of mine. Also I completely support having actual brownies and I don’t think not eating something when you really want it makes any sense whatsoever.

Anyways the main point of today’s post is that those brownies are basically something for anyone, whether you follow a plantbased diet, whether you’ve got a gluten-intolerance or you live a sugar-free life. Nowadays it can be rather difficult to bring along a cake to a gathering as most certainly there will be at least one person with some kind of dietary restriction, so guys, just bring my coconut brownies and you’ll be safe.

I’ve actually been experimenting with this recipe for a while and I’ve already made it twice however it just never turned out quite right. The first attempt wasn’t sweet enough, the second one didn’t taste like much, however, this one turned out divine. They’re chocolatey, they’re moist, all in all they’re just AMAZING! I did it, finally!

So guys, here it is, my sugar free and flour free coconut brownie recipe you’ve all been waiting for:

• 190ml coconut milk
• 1 tbs chia seeds
• 8 medjool dates (150g) *
• 50g shredded coconut
• 300g chickpeas
• 40g cacao powder
• 1tbs coconut oil
• 100ml water
• 1tsp baking powder

optional:

• 50g chocolate, chopped into chunks
• a handful of raspberries for decorating

Topping:

• 4 squares of chocolate
• 15g coconut butter
• arcticberries cranberry powder
• coconut chips

1. Preheat your oven to 170°C and add your chia seeds and half of your coconut milk into a jar, shake it up and put aside for later.

2. While the chia seed coconut mixture is thickening add the chickpeas, dates, add the dates, coconut oil, cacao powder water and the rest of your coconut milk into a food processor and process until smooth.

3. Now add the shredded coconut, the baking powder and the chia seed mixture, which should be slightly pudding like by now. Pulse until well combined.

4. Last but not least add your chocolate chunks and pulse again.

5. Spread your brownie batter (top with raspberries) into a lined baking sheet and bake at 170°C for approximately 30-35 minutes or until a tooth pick stuck into the middle comes out clean. You will have to let them cool down completely as they still be very soft and fragile when you take them out of the oven. Yet when their cooled completely the hold together perfectly.
6. When they’re cooled completely, cut into squares and melt the chocolate and the coconut butter. Drizzle the brownies with the mixture and top with additional decoration. I sprinkled them with some cranberry powder and coconut chips.

*If you haven’t got medjool dates, I recommend you to soak your dates a few hours prior to making this as they will be too hard otherwise.

Voila, easy right?! I mean you don’t even need to use a mixing bowl, nor a hand mixer or any other tools. Just chuck it all in the food processor and you’ll end up with the most delicious sugar and flour free brownies you will ever taste. Well nearly sugar free, but I just had to add some chocolate chunks and by all means if you fancy to have them completely sugar free, just omit them and substitute with nuts or a handful of dried cranberries.

Happy Sunday, happy first of November, happy baking!

Bisous