Gluten Free Dairy Free Coconut Brownies Food

GLUTEN-FREE, DAIRY-FREE COCONUT BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix rice flour, white sugar, cocoa powder, brown sugar, salt, and baking powder together in a large bowl; add coconut milk, applesauce, flaked coconut, and coconut oil. Blend the mixture until it thickens into a batter; pour into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the top is dry and the edges have started to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 30 minutes. Cool about 10 minutes before cutting into squares.

GLUTEN-FREE DAIRY-FREE BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat chocolate with canola oil in a large glass bowl in a microwave oven in 30 second increments, stirring between each round of heating, until completely melted, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Stir eggs and coffee granules into the melted chocolate. Sift sugar, cocoa powder, flour, and baking soda together into a bowl; add to chocolate mixture and stir to incorporate fully. Pour coffee liqueur and vanilla extract into the mixture; stir.
• Pour brownie batter into an 8-inch square baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until beginning to dry along the edges, 20 to 25 minutes.

GLUTEN-FREE COCOA BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease an 8×8x2 pan (or a 9 x 12 pan if doubling recipe) or 12 muffin tins. (You can line the pan with parchment paper so that you can easily lift out the brownies and slice them when they are done.).
• Melt butter in a sauce pan or in a 1 quart container in the microwave. Remove from heat. Add cocoa until blended, then add sugar and mix well. Add eggs, one at a time. Stir in vanilla, flour, salt & xanthan gum - do not overmix.
• Bake 25-30 minutes (less if using muffin tins).
• Cool and serve.

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.