Update: I have changed this recipe slightly to produce a sturdier but still delicious brownie. See my best brownies recipe.
Brownies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ¾ cup sorghum flour (or rice flour)
- ¼ cup sweet rice flour
- 1/3 cup corn starch (or potato starch)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Instructions
- In a large sauce pan, stir the butter and cocoa over low heat until melted.
- Remove from heat and, using a wooden spoon or stiff spatula, add the sugars. Stir in the vanilla.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flours, corn starch, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum. Add this to the sauce pan and stir until all the flour is moistened.
- Stir in the nuts.
- Spread the batter into a greased and rice floured 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
- Cool before cutting.
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I can’t tell from the picture… did these come out more cake-like or more fudge-like? Or a little of both?
Good question. A little bit of both. Using rice flour will make them more cake like and sorghum more fudge like. So these were on the fudgier side because I used sorghum.
I can’t have chocolate or cocoa. Was going to try these but leave the cocoa powder out. Any suggestions on what I can (or should do I even need to) substitute? Thanks 🙂
You would need to add something because the cocoa powder acts sort of like a flour. I have never tried them without cocoa, though. You’ll have to experiment.