Welcome to another edition of Family Friendly Fridays! ย The other day, my girls asked me for some homemade brownies. ย We love brownies! ย Now I have a recipe for blondie brownies, chocolate chip cookie pie/brownies, and black bean brownies. ย Out of these 3 brownie recipes, one is made out of chickpeas, the other out of black beans, and the last one is made out of sprouted flour. ย In today’s recipe, I wanted to share with you a soaked brownie recipe. ย You might ask why I am soaking my flour? ย Good question. ย In this short video from Sarah over at The Healthy Home Economist she does an excellent job explaining why it is so important to soak your grain flours.
This recipe is inspired fromย Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats.
Family Friendly Fridays ~ Organic Soaked Chocolate Brownie Recipe
Prep Time: 12 hours 20 minutes- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 13 hours
- Yield: 40 brownies 1x
- Category: dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: american
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This organic soaked chocolate brownie recipe is the perfect chocolatey treat!
Ingredients
- 3 cups freshly ground spelt or whole wheat flour
- 2 cups water
- 2 tbsp lemon juice, apple cider vinegar or whey
- 3/4 cup grass fed butter softened
- 1 1/4 cup sucanat or sweetener of choice
- 4 eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp unrefined sea salt
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 cup chopped soaked pecans
- 1/2 cup mini enjoy life chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Soak flour with water and lemon juice (or acidic medium of choice) for 12-24 hours in a warm place on your countertop.
- After you are done soaking, cream the butter and sucanant together in a mixing bowl.
- Add eggs, vanilla extract, salt, cocoa powder and baking powder.
- Blend in soaked flour.
- Fold in chocolate chips and pecans.
- Grease a 9×13 pan (I used coconut oil) and place your brownie mixture into the pan.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Allow to cool completely and cut into small squares.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 brownie
These sound awesome! ย Do you have a flour suggestion for making these gluten free?
lvilleeย You could try these with some gluten free oat flour (or simply make some oat flour yourself with some gluten free oats and grind them in a coffee grinder to a fine powder/flour). ย Also the chocolate chip cookie/brownie and the black bean brownies, highlighted in this post are both great gluten free alternatives.
Looks yummy! I need to add sucanat to my list for a local bulk food store, though I could probably use coconut sugar as a substitute.
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I tried these! I used whole wheat flour and honey in place of the sucanat. They were ok. Not sweet enough. I don’t know if I need more honey (used 3/4 cup), or if I am just not used to the whole wheat taste, as these were my first whole wheat brownies. Anyone made them with honey before? And would spelt produce a better taste? I have never used spelt before. Trying to figure out what I need to change.
I’ve got these in the oven right now! I made them almost exactly as written, soaking the whole wheat flour and grass fed butter, (but I didn’t soak the pecans) I didn’t have vanilla so I substituted 1/2 tablespoon mapleine, for the 1 tablespoon vanilla. The recipe as written I think will make cakey brownies, so I tried melting the grass fed butter all the way in the microwave and mixing in the cocoa powder and then adding that into the batter separately from the sugar, to make a fudgy type brownie. I’ll let you know how they turn out!
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So actually, these were a flop. I don’t think it was because of my changes, but I won’t give it a rating anyway because I didn’t follow the recipe to a “t”. I had my three kids ages 2-10 try it, and their friend and my husband. Only one person finished their brownie. My kids who are used to soaked whole wheat and low sugar baked goods, and my husband said they weren’t sweet enough. And my husband said that it tasted/ had the texture of something like chocolate carrot bread and not like a brownie, but that if it was called chocolate bread, it wouldn’t be that bad. But I’ve tried other soaked brownie recipes before and I had similar results. I think I will try your sprouted flour brownie recipe next time! Or I think adding more sugar, less chocolate and maybe a few egg yolks could improve these. Perhaps also you could decrease the water to one cup but add melted butter before soaking?
Thank you for the video on soaking grains. I have recently started using this process and have found everything you have said to be my experience, also. If my body could speak, it would say . . . soaked grains! Where have you been all my life?!! I don’t have the need to eat as much food and the food I do eat using the soaked grains is more satisfying . . . I am eating less, too. Hopefully that will translate to my losing the extra weight that needs to come off. So far I am feeling more energy and healthy. I hope to inspire others to try the soaked grain method, too.