Gluten Free Dairy Free Chewy Brownies Crackly Tops Food

GLUTEN FREE, DAIRY FREE, CHEWY BROWNIES (CRACKLY TOPS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x12 pan, or 24 muffin tins, or 48 mini muffin tins.
• Sift together the dry ingredients: rice flour, starch, cocoa powder, xanthan gum, and salt. Set aside.
• In another bowl, cream the lard, 2 tbsp water, powdered sugar, and ONE egg together for 5-6 minutes until looks like a soft, shiny, whipped frosting. I use a KitchenAid Stand Mixer setting it to around 6.
• Add the rest of the eggs (there will be three of them), one at a time until each is blended in, and the vanilla extract. Then turn up the mixer (KitchenAid on about speed 8), or use some serious elbow grease with a whisk, slowly pour the oil into the mixture (kind of like you're making mayonnaise; though it won't look or feel like mayo). At first, after you add all the eggs, it will look kind of worrisome, like tiny curdles and you've ruined it. Don't worry! Keep mixing! The purpose of this stage is to introduce as many bubbles as possible, whipping it so that it will have the glossy, shiny, crackly top. Mix for about 5 minutes.
• Finally, BY HAND (no mixer), add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients until combined. Be careful not to over mix after you add the flour. This is to ensure that your brownies will be chewy and not cake-like.
• Add the mixture to your pan of choice. If using a 9x12 pan, bake for 25 to 30 minutes. If using muffin tins, about 20 minutes, and mini muffin tins, about 15 minutes. Always check at an early time to ensure they don't overbake. Overbaked brownies are more cake-like. If you want chewy brownies, be sure not to bake too long.
• Let cool, and then serve.

DAIRY FREE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Grease and flour a 9"x13" pan; or, better, line it with parchment paper.
• Sift together the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder and salt.
• Whisk together the oil, soy milk, vanilla, egg and brown rice syrup.
• Stir into the dry ingredients.
• Scrape into the pan.
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Cool in the pan, cut into squares, and remove.

BEST EVER BROWNIES - DAIRY FREE

Steps:

• Cream together margarine and sugar.
• Add eggs and vanilla, mix well.
• Sift together flour, salt and baking powder- add to creamed mixture.
• Blend in cocoa powder and add chopped nuts.
• Spread mixture into greased 9-inch square pan.
• Bake for 35 minutes at 350.
• When cool, top with dusting of confectioners sugar.

CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE BROWNIES (DAIRY-FREE!)

Steps:

• Crumble tofu into a sieve lined with several layers of paper towels; add soy yogurt.
• Cover sieve with plastic wrap and place over a bowl to drain overnight, or for up to two days (the longer this drains, the thicker and creamier your filling will be).
• Preheat oven to 350F.
• In a small bowl with an electric beater, beat the drained tofu/yogurt with other filling ingredients until smooth and creamy (or blend ingredients in a blender); set aside.
• In a large bowl sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, soda, and salt; whisk dry ingredients until well blended.
• Whisk in water, oil, applesauce, vinegar, and vanilla just until batter is blended.
• Lightly spray a 9 x 13" baking pan with cooking oil.
• Pour chocolate mixture into pan and spread evenly.
• Spoon large dropfuls of the filling mixture in 12 even spoonfuls across the batter (you should have three rows of four dropfuls of filling).
• Take the flat side of a butter knife and gently pull it through the batter and filling to make a marble pattern.
• Bake for 18-22 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in a brownie portion comes out with moist crumbs.
• Cool on rack.
• I would recommend allowing these to cool completely before serving; I think they have the best texture that way!
• They're also fantastic topped with vanilla soy ice cream and drizzled with chocolate syrup!