Chocolate orange brownies

  • Preparation Time 15 Minutes
  • Cooking Time 25-30 Minutes
  • Serves 12

Vegan, Egg-free, Nut-free, Lactose-free

I have not many people in my life who does not like a well-made chocolate brownie. From the lovely cracked top covering the most unctuous gooey centre. Rich with dark chocolate and speckled with little nuggets of extra chocolate.

To me, it is the delicious treat I would order out with a cup of milky cappuccino

To be honest, once I became vegan I really thought my days of enjoying a delicious brownies was over. I have been cooking for over 40 years and could not envisage this traditional this cake without eggs, proper butter and good dark chocolate. How wrong I was.

I remember going to Vegan festival in my home town and after an exhausting and wonderful day checking out every stall, my body was shouting out for a coffee and cake. So I decided to order a brownie as they looked incredible, and OMG it was one of the best brownie I have ever had. That day opened my eyes and made me realise how versatile vegan baking can be.

Ingredients

  • 200 g Vegan dark chocolate
  • 113 g dairy-free butter such as Vitalite
  • 2 tbsp of ground flaxseeds
  • 6 tbsp of hot water
  • 100 g of soft brown sugar
  • 25 g of cacao powder
  • 1 tsp of baking powder
  • 1 tsp of salt
  • 95 g of Plain flour
  • 2 tsp of orange extract
  • Zest of 1 orange

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 C and line an 8-inch square pan with baking powder.
  2. Mix the flaxseeds in a cup with the hot water, stir and leave to one side to become gel-like
  3. Chop up the chocolate into small chunks and place in a microwave suitable bowl with the butter and place in the microwave to melt, mine took 2 minutes. All microwave vary so use your judgement. You could also use the Bain Marie method
  4. In a mixing bowl combine the melted butter and chocolate with the bowl sugar and orange extract.
  5. Add the flaxseed mixture and combine.
  6. Sift in the bowl, cocoa powder, cocao powder, baking powder and salt then gently fold gently into the the wet mixture until it is all combined.
  7. Gently stir in the other 100 g of chopped chocolate and pour into your baking tray. Place into the oven and bake for 25 minutes and then test by inserting a skewer into the middle of the

You want the top of the brownie to have some lovely cracks but not fully cooked in the middle. You want it to remain gooey and sticky in the middle as a good brownie should be.

Remove from the oven and leave in the tray for at least 20 minutes then remove and divide into squares. These will not hang around for long.

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 C and line an 8 inch square pan with baking powder.
  2. Mix the flaxseeds in a cup with the hot water, stir and leave to one side to become gel like.
  3. Chop up the chocolate into small pieces, and place 100 g into a non-metal bowl with the butter and place in the microwave to melt, mine took 2 minutes but all microwave vary in cooking times. You could also melt it in a Bain Marie.
  4. In a mixing bowl combine the melted butter and chocolate with the bowl sugar and orange extract.
  5. Add the flaxseed mixture and combine.
  6. Sift in the bowl, cocoa powder, cocao powder, baking powder and salt then gently fold gently into the the wet mixture until it is all combined.
  7. Gently stir in the other 100 g of chopped chocolate and pour into your baking tray. Place into the oven and bake for 25 minutes and then test by inserting a skewer into the middle of the

You want the top of the brownie to have some lovely cracks but not fully cooked in the middle. You want it to remain gooey and sticky in the middle as a good brownie should be.

Notes

  • If you do not have cacao powder a good quality cocoa powder will be fine.
  • I have made this using Bob’s Red Mills 1-1 gluten-free baking flour and Dove Farm’s gluten-free. If your mixture is too dry then adding some dairy-free will work.

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  1. Iris Priest – As animists, natural anarchists, and practicing witches we believe that by connecting with mother nature we can reconnect with the living earth, and with ourselves - this is how we come back to living well and in harmony the earth, as we come to understand that she and we are not separate, but one and the same. Connection with nature, we believe, is both how we heal and how we resist. Returning to our place in the weft of nature we begin to heal both our personal wounds and the wounds of our communities (human and non-human alike). For us, connecting is one of the key ways we may begin the great work of reparation, of cultivating climate and social justice, for all. The Witches Garden grows from the wisdom and healing offered by plants and other beings, though all wisdom, teachings, and stories we will endeavor to properly cite and credit for their sources be they written, oral, or otherwise. To this, we acknowledge, as white, mainly cis-gendered people living in the UK (despite our various challenges in terms of class and health), a highly privileged position. This blog is not intended for purposes of preaching or so-called educating, it is not to establish any kind of 'authority', rather it is a diary for ourselves and anyone who would find comfort, beauty, or use in its pages. We acknowledge that our lineage overlaps with that of white colonizers whose own indigenous origins, wisdom, stories, and rituals are almost entirely lost but which we seek through research, reconnection, and magical/ancestral work. We believe, ultimately, that magic and healing work in all directions. That as we work on healing in the present moment so, too we heal the past, the future, and all living kin. We are committed to decolonizing our selves, and all aspects of our magical, spiritual, nature-based practices and knowledges. We pledge to never knowingly take what is not ours, to create more than we consume, and to give back to those who have been harmed or wronged by our ourselves and by our ancestors. Finally, as animists we believe that what we call 'things' (in the English language at least) are not 'things' at all but that, as our ancestors once believed, that every 'thing' is alive and lives with love and intentionality. We believe we still live in the enchanted world of our druid and pagan forebearers, though we may have forgotten much of the languages, signs, and connectedness of those times, our work here today is to rediscover that magic by listening deeply and learning open-heartedly from nature in all her forms.
    Iris Priest says:

    I made this recipe today but it was super crumbly and didn’t hold together well. I feel like maybe there’s some extra binder needed? Or something didn’t quite work for me?

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