Cherry & Almond Chocolate Brownies
These brownies are rich, moist, chocolatey and delicious! One of the Viva! staff said they were the best brownies they’d ever eaten… enjoy 🙂
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Total time
40
Cuisine
United States and Canada
Meal
- vegan-desserts
Servings
Sep-16
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 100g/¾ cup self-raising flour
- 70g/¾ cup ground almonds
- 175g/7/8 cup golden caster sugar
- 3 (level) tbsp cocoa or cacao powder
- 125g/1 cup pecans, roughly chopped (optional)
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ (level) tsp baking powder
- 95g/1 cup glacé cherries, roughly chopped
Wet ingredients
- 200g/7oz vegan dark chocolate, broken into squares
- 4 tbsp coconut oil
- 245ml/1 cup soya milk or other plant milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or paste
- ½ tsp almond essence (optional)
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC (fan)/350ºF/Gas Mark 4.
- Line a 20cm square (or roughly equivalent size) tin with baking parchment.
- Thoroughly combine all of the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
- In a jug, mix the soya milk, vanilla extract and almond essence. Set aside.
- Melt the coconut oil and chocolate together using a double boiler (a glass or ceramic bowl that fits on a saucepan of simmering water but doesn’t touch the bottom).
- Pour the melted chocolate and coconut oil along with the soya milk mix into the bowl of dry ingredients. Stir thoroughly until well combined.
- Pour the mixture into the lined tin and then bake in the oven for 25 minutes.
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