Dark Chocolate (chopped) – 225 gm
Regular Butter – 100 gm
Almond flour – 100 gm
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Dates (deseed & make purée)- 200 gm
Eggs(room temperature) – 3
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
Chocolate chips (preferably straight out of the refrigerator) – 150 gm
- Preheat the oven at 170°c.
- Line a baking pan with parchment paper and keep it ready.
- Sieve the almond flour & baking powder together & keep aside.
- In a mixing bowl, add the butter & chocolate and melt them together in a microwave, in short bursts of 30-30 seconds (you can do this on a double boiler too)
- Mix with a spatula to combine chocolate with butter till it turns silky.
- Now beat in the dates purée & vanilla essence.
- Next go in the eggs one by one beating it in each time in with the spatula.
- Then add the flour and fold it into the batter in 2-3 parts.
- Finally, add ¾ of chocolate chips in the batter and fold them in too
- Now pour the batter into a lined baking pan & spread it evenly.
- Sprinkle remaining chocolate chips on top of the batter.
- Bake for 15-16 mins in a preheated oven.
- Take out the pan out of from oven and keep on a cooling rack. Don’t bother with the tooth pick test here. The baked brownies have to be gooey from inside.
- Allow the brownies to come to room temperature, and then refrigerate along with the pan. This makes it easier to slice the brownies.
- Cut the brownies into squares and serve them warm or cold with a side of any berry compote or a dollop of vanilla ice-cream.