this is my third experiment with brownies for the past month.. it's odd given that i never even made them before. but now i seem to be obsessed with trying to make something chocolate-y healthy and tasty! the previous couple of times i made them with organic virgin coconut oil. first time were amazing, but the second something didn't quite work out- perhaps the baking time was off- but they turned out super flat. the taste was ok, but the texture- not right. so i had soem leftover organic cocoa butter from the time i was preggo- i used some against stretchmarks. and since it's food grade and i don't like to use it for moisturizing purposes anymore (because of the strong smell) i thought it'd make a delicious ingredient for brownies.. and it did!
so here are the ingredients (i used everything organic..except for the baking powder and the salt, which was Kosher Mediterranean Sea Salt):
1 cup melted cocoa butter
3 eggs
1 tbs Pure Vanilla Extract
1 cup dehydrated cane juice/ or substitute raw sugar
1/2 cup (or more, for chocolate addicts) raw cocoa powder
2/3 cup + 1tbs stone ground whole wheat flour
non-stick coconut oil spray
1 ts baking powder
pinch of sea salt
preheat oven to 350F
beat the cocoa butter with the dehydrated cane juice/sugar, adding the eggs one by one, then the vanilla extract, in a large bowl.
mix the cocoa, flour and salt in a separate bowl and add to the wet ingredients. beat mixture with until smooth.
spray 4x4in square pan with the coconut spray. (since i didn't have such a pan on hand i used a round one, thus making cake-piece-shaped brownies, however that didn't compromise the taste)
pour mixture and bake 20-25mins until a slight crust forms but it is still jiggly underneath.
NOTE: brownies should look a bit underbaked, once they cool down they will be chewy, not flaky..
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