{"id":772,"date":"2010-02-17T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=772"},"modified":"2011-08-29T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:19:39","slug":"black-bean-brownies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Black Bean Brownies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black Bean Brownies<\/p><\/div>\n

Total time:\u00a0 1 hour.<\/p>\n

Gluten-Free intrigues me, and I couldn’t help but try making my own version of these. I thought that substituting some brown sugar in place of white sugar would help with some “stickiness”, but I still feel these could have held together better. The key might be xanthan gum or guar gum<\/a>; if you’ve got either, try adding a teaspoon.<\/p>\n

2 cups cooked black beans, rinsed and drained
\n3 eggs
\n1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
\n1\/4 c brown sugar
\n1\/4 c white sugar
\n2 Tbsp canola oil
\n2 Tbsp butter
\n1 tsp vanilla extract
\n1 tsp baking powder
\n1 tsp instant coffee (optional)
\n1\/4 tsp salt<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease your brownie pan, and set aside.<\/p>\n

In a small microwave safe bowl, melt butter and chocolate chips. Stir every 20 seconds.<\/p>\n

In a food processor or blender, combine beans and melted chocolate until it forms a smooth paste. You can add the rest of the ingredients and blend well, or you can transfer the beany chocolate to a large bowl and mix everything in the large bowl.<\/p>\n

Transfer to an 8×8 brownie pan (or 7 x 11 glass pan), and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.<\/p>\n

Today, I am using a packet of Starbucks Decaf Italian Roast VIA<\/a>, which measured 1.5 tsp. I shouldn’t have put the whole packet in, as you can definitely taste the coffee. Maybe espresso powder or just cutting down to 1 tsp would make a better flavor. I don’t mind tasting the coffee, though. <3 coffee.<\/p>\n

Overall, these were delicious and awesome. If I bake brownies from scratch again, I’ll be using this recipe. I might add some flour or guar gum to bind the brownie together better (it’s kind of crumbly), but I wouldn’t change anything else.<\/p>\n

Day 2: They’ve been in a covered pan all night, and the top is now “sweaty” and they seem to be pretty dry. You can definitely tell it’s beans today. Very interesting.<\/p>\n

Day 6: Don’t keep these for this many days. They developed a stench, and I had to throw them out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black beans replace flour in this pretty basic brownie recipe. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[25,44,33,40,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}