The Best Vegan Chocolate Brownies

• Vegetarian

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
  • 1 3/16 cup Granulated sugar, White
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Semi sweet chocolate chip
  • 2 tsp Vanilla extract

• Dairy

  • 1 stick Butter, unsalted

Found on naivecookcooks.com

Description

Ingredients

• ** Make sure that you use all VEGAN ingredients if you have vegan allergies.
• 1 stick unsalted butter , soft room temperature (vegan butter or oil for vegans)
• 3 tbsp cocoa powder
• ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup + 3 tbsp white granulated sugar
• ¼ tsp salt
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ cup apple sauce (store bought or homemade, to make at home - just take 2 apples, clean, peel and chop. Add them in a pot with 1 cup water and simmer until apples are completely cooked through and all water has evaporated. Puree)
• 1.5 cups all purpose flour
• ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions

• Preheat oven to 325F and move the rack in the center.
• Line a 7*7 inch baking pan with parchment paper or aluminium foil with a little overhang so its easy to pull out the brownies once cooked. Grease it with little oil.
• In a bowl, add butter, sugar, salt, cocoa powder and ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips. Melt this mix over a bain marie, which is basically just heating some water in a pot. Once it comes to boil, place the bowl with the above ingredients over it and continue to stir until it starts to all melt. It should somewhere around 3-5 minutes. Dont worry of the sugar is not melted. You just want to make sure that butter and chocolate is melted and everything is mixed.
• Once its hot and everything is melted, take it off the heat and keep aside.To it add apple sauce, vanilla extract and all purpose flour and stir until its all evenly mixed.
• Fold the remaining ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips into the batter.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for around 35 minutes first. I suggest checking the batter at around 35 minutes by inserting a toothpick in the center. If it comes out really wet, keep baking for another 5 minutes. Check again and if its still little wet, bake for another 2-5 minutes. I found that everytime I bake, it takes around 40 mins to bake .If its almost dry with only few crumbs getting stuck to the toothpick when inserted in the center, take it out of the oven and let it cool completely and I mean it. DO NOT TOUCH THEM FOR ANOTHER 4 HOURS.
• I know its hard but seriously it makes them taste amazing!
• Once completely cooled, cut and enjoy. Enjoy just like that or enjoy with some homemade chocolate sauce and ice cream!