Vegan Black Bean Brownies! Easy to make and the best recipe! Healthy, flourless, made with dates, almond butter, maple syrup, cocoa powder and chocolate. Gluten free, egg free, dairy free! Delicious ooey gooey fudgy brownies!
My Hubby is addicted to my vegan gluten free black bean brownies. It took me a few tweaks to perfect these chocolatey morsels of yumminess. so needless to say my taste tester (AKA husband Carl) was a happy camper, haha-- and no you cannot taste the black beans!
No boxed brownie mix here kids! Just healthy, delicious and simple fudgy black bean brownies made from scratch and oil free too! The perfect healthy Vegan Dessert!
This recipe couldn't be easier, you just need a food processor and you're set.
I like maple syrup with this brownie recipe but you could use sugar or sweetener of choice, whatever floats your boat. They will be equally delicious either way. These vegan brownies are basically refined sugar free with the addition of chocolate chips or chopped chocolate.
How to make vegan black bean brownies:
Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees. Soak dates in boiling water for 10-15 minutes, drain, then add the dates to the food processor along with rinsed black beans, process for 1 minute or so and then add the plant milk, maple syrup, and almond butter. Now Process the mixture until smooth, scraping down sides if necessary
Next add the mixture to a large bowl with the rest of ingredients, and mix well
Pour the brownie batter into non stick brownie pan, I use a 11 x 7 inch pan
Bake for 35 minutes then remove from oven and cool in pan on cooling rack
Lastly Tip the brownies out onto cutting board or cut and serve from pan. your choice
Makes 15 - 20 brownies, ( depending on how big you cut them?)
Try these vegan brownies with my Chocolate Malted Vegan Ice Cream. So good!
Enjoy! For full recipe instructions and ingredients see recipe card below
That's it folks! Just remember to cool completely in pan on cooling rack first, if you can wait that long?
Go get started, soak those dates!
These brownies are:
Perfect
easy
Fudgy & gooey
Chewy
chocolatey
Mouth watering
lip smacking good
warm
sweet
heavenly
healthy
flourless
gluten free
More chocolate recipes:
- Tasty Vegan chocolate chip cookies
- Salted Caramel Vegan Chocolate Pie
- Nutty Vegan chocolate Truffles
- The Best Vegan Chocolate Cake ever!
- Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Enjoy you guys! Happy Day☺
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Vegan Black Bean Brownies Recipe (Gluten free + no oil)
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 15 -20 servings 1x
- Diet: Vegan
Description
Vegan Black Bean Brownies! Easy to make and the best recipe! Healthy, flourless, made with dates, almond butter, maple syrup, cocoa powder and chocolate. Gluten free, egg free, dairy free! Delicious ooey gooey fudgy brownies!
Ingredients
For brownies:
- 2 cans black beans, 540 ml each, no salt added, (rinsed and drained)
- 1 cup dates, soaked, (see notes*)
- 1/4 cup vegan plant milk of your choice, unsweetened
- 1/2 cup of almond butter
- 1/3 cup of maple syrup, (see notes*)
- 1/2 cup of cocoa powder , I like Hershey's
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp instant espresso ( coffee)
- 1/2 cup walnuts, (chopped)
- 1 cup chopped dark chocolate, or vegan chocolate chips, (see notes*)
- 1- 2 tbsp orange zest, ( approx one large orange)
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees
- Add dates to a bowl, cover with boiling water (from kettle) for 10 minutes (this softens the dates), drain, then add the dates to the food processor along with rinsed black beans, process for 1 minute or so and then add the plant milk, maple syrup, and almond butter. Now Process the mixture until smooth, scraping down sides if necessary
- Next add the mixture to a large bowl with the rest of ingredients, and mix well
- Pour the brownie batter into non stick brownie pan, I use a 11 x 7 inch pan
- Bake for 35 minutes then remove from oven and cool in pan on cooling rack
- Lastly Tip the brownies out onto cutting board or cut and serve from pan. your choice
- Makes 15 - 20 brownies, ( depending on how big you cut them?)
- Try these brownies with my Chocolate Malted Vegan Ice cream
- Enjoy!
Notes
- I like maple syrup with this recipe but you could sugar or sweetener of choice. If using granulated sugar I'd go with 1/3 to 1/2 of a cup.
- for the chocolate I use 2 - 100 gram dark chocolate bars from Walmart (canada). they are cheap and the quality is great!
- If in Canada "Presidents Choice" semi sweet chocolate chips are vegan, (always check label though?)
- I recommend storing in fridge (if they make it that far), and reheating in microwave, 20 -25 seconds before serving?
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Sweets, gluten free
- Method: Bake / Oven
- Cuisine: American, Canadian, Vegan
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I made them yesterday, delicious!! My husband couldn’t believe that they were made with 2 cans of beans 🤣
We have just changed our diet to GF and plant based, thank you for a great go to treat.
Thrilled you enjoyed the brownies. Thank you so much for your comment Alexandria
Really great! My family didn't know they were made with black beans!
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Thrilled your family enjoyed the brownies. thanks so much for your comment!
These black bean brownies are so easy and SO good! My kids love them. Thank you
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So happy to hear that Megan! Glad you're all enjoying them!
Hello! Have you tried these without the orange zest? How were they? Also, have you tried to sub wild orange essential oil in place of the orange zest?
Hi Dawn, no I have not tried without the orange zest but I'm sure the brownies would still be tasty, I have not used orange essential oil in my baking. Have a great day Dawn!!
I made without the orange zest/oil. Fabulous!
Wonderful! glad you enjoyed them
I took your brownies to my son’s college for feed the team after their soccer game. They were a hit!
oh that's awesome!! So glad everyone enjoyed them!? Thank you so much for your comment Karen!
Looks wonderful, will be making this on day off. Tried subscribing but could not make entry on 'nof a robot' box. Would love to be subscribed. Thanks.
Hi Iona, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am working to fix the problem. Enjoy the Brownies!?❤️
Are you kidding me! We are blown away by these brownies! Looking for so long for a healthy tasty vegan brownie!
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Oh wow! this makes me so happy! thank you so much Janice!
Is there anything I can sub for the espresso or can I omit? I'm allergic. Thanks.
Hi Natalie, just leave it out. Add another teaspoon of vanilla if you'd like. Enjoy!
just can't stop eating them. Can you live on these?
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Haha! My husband thinks you can? thanks for the comment Brian. Have a great day!
Made these last week for a get together everyone loved them! Thank you for the recipe.
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Oh Yeah!! I'm so glad , thanks so much for the comment Carrie.
These are our favorite brownies. I love quilt free treats
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I'm so glad you love them, they are my husbands favourite too. I love guilt free also haha. I'm posting some chocolate cookies in a couple of days and they are definitely not guilt free, lol
The Best !!
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Aww thx so much! So appreciated? Happy day to you
These are SO yummy and I love that they are guilt free?!
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Thank you!?
Soooo good! A new favourite recepie! Best I found so far!!Thanks from
Finland!
OH Thank you! I'M so glad you love them! They are my husbands favourite. Its a bonus they're healthy. Happy Day to you? Jenny from Finland.