Vegan Peanut Butter Brownies (Heck Yes)

Hello, Brownie

Wassup Kangaroos,

Sorry I've been off the radar for a couple of weeks. I can mostly owe it to being distracted by discussions on FB, debating, trolling, and reading about other people.  Anyway, we digress.
So, I know, I am getting repetitive, this is my second brownie recipe. But if you don't like brownies (and all possible variations of them), then you might need to reevaluate your priorities.


 Today we have a recipe that will delight them chocolate and p&b lovers. This creamy-chocolaty vegan heaven. So I've used a blended olive-pomace oil. (pomace is basically oil extracted from grape skins and olive skins and seeds). It's rather neutral so, it's not as strong as coconut oil. You can also use coconut oil if you want (but in m y opinion it will dilute the peanut butter taste), or you can also use regular vegetable or canola oil. Anyway let's get to it.


What You Need

1 cup almond milk (or soya)
3/4th cup pure cocoa powder (unsweetened)
1 cup olive-pomace oil (or vegetable/canola)
2 tb chia seeds (soaked in 6 tb water to get it gel-like)
1tb sea salt
1 cup brown sugar (or regular)
1ts Vanilla
1.5 ts baking powder
1.5 cups flour
1/2 cup peanut butter



How To Make

In one lovely bowl add your oil, almond milk, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Give it a stir. Now add your chia seeds (that should be gel-like after soaking them in the water for a couple of minutes). Now add your cocoa powder and stir till you have a nice chocolate paste.

Chocolate Paste, Lover

Done? Cool, now add your baking powder to your flour and mix. Go ahead and add your flour (slowly) to the chocolate mixture  and keep stirring. You will get a thick slightly wet dough.

Get your oven pre-heated to 180c

On a greased pan press your chocolate brownie dough to fit the pan, about 3/4th inch in thickness. Now pop your peanut butter in the microwave (or on a stove) and melt it for 30 seconds, you don't want it to be complete liquid, just to soften it up a bit.

How it looks once it's pressed into the pan (melted peanutbutter saying hi on the right) 

Dip into the soft peanut butter with a fork and graze the top of your brownie dough. Keep grazing all over till there are Peanut butter stripes all over. Now pop it into the oven for 20 minutes.

Once it's all grazed with peanutbutter. Pretty cool, eh?

You're done! Let it cool for a few. Cut into pieces and enjoy them blissful brownies. Go back into the world, rejuvenated. Share your brownies. Be kind. And tell the haters to go home.