Cutting flour and sugar out of your diet? It can be a huge change to get used to! Instead of going cold turkey, try these yummy avocado brownies that can fit easily into your paleo or keto diet.
While I am not following the paleo or keto diet currently, I have in the past. I had a really hard time getting past my love of baking. You see, flour is the building block of baking and it is pretty much verboten on both keto and paleo.
Unfortunately, while trying to replace bread and treats, many people load up their diets with a bunch of weird ingredients. Thankfully, these delicious avocado brownies are weird ingredient free! No xanthan gum or other things I can’t pronounce…just yummy avocados. I know that does seem weird but it totally works!
I did have to buy coconut flour but it seems to be used quite frequently in gluten/carb free recipes. I hate to buy an ingredient for just one thing, ya know? The cool thing is that these gluten-free brownies are SO GOOD that you would likely use all the coconut flour even if you couldn’t use it for anything else.
Overall, the brownies were very good and very chocolatey. I will bake them a bit longer next time (the recipe shows the longer time) because they were quite moist, especially the next day. Evan said they weren’t as good as regular brownies but that he still like them.
I think they would be delicious with vanilla ice cream (though that kind of negates the whole non-dairy thing doesn’t it….oh well, dairy doesn’t bother me so ice cream it is!). Melding a superfood like avocados into a chocolatey treat…how can you go wrong?
Keto or Paleo Avocado Brownie Recipe
Paleo Avocado Brownies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips/dark chocolate/bittersweet chocolate/etc
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 cup avocado puree ~2 very large avocados or up to 4 small ones
- 1 Tbsp coconut flour
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp gluten free baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease an 8X8 square baking pan.
- Melt chocolate and coconut oil in the microwave. Stir every 30 seconds until melted (usually about 1 1/2 minutes).
- Fold together melted chocolate and avocado puree in a large bowl (make sure your avocado puree is very smooth or you will have avocado chunks in your brownies).
- Mix in remaining ingredients, mixing well.
- Pour into prepared pan and bake for 35 - 45 minutes. Don't over bake but realize that the brownies will get moister as they cool.
Nutrition
Looking for other great Paleo or Keto recipes? Try these!
Paleo Breakfast – Messy Egg, Bacon and Veggie Scramble
Paleo Coconut Lime Shrimp Curry
Paleo Huevos Divorciados (Divorced Eggs)
Kristina says
Going to try this tonight! Thanks Merry!
Merry says
Let me know if you like them!
smothermother says
having been GF for almost 4 years now i’m always on the look out for good baking recipes. i’ve got lots of muffins, but no brownies. next time i see super ripe avocados at the grocery store i’ll give these a try.
Merry says
Another great blogger to follow is Home to Heather. She is gluten free as well. She posted a yummy looking recipe for cookies the other day – http://hometoheather.com/2014/02/paleo-gluten-free-brownie-cookies/
Heather says
Thanks so much Merry!!
smothermother says
thanks! i’ll check her out.
JO says
WHAT THE MACRO BREAKDOWN?
Merry Kuchle says
The available nutrition info is in the recipe card. Anything beyond that is up to you to calculate.
Heather says
These look really fantastic! I’ve come across recipes with avocado in them before but was a little scared to try them. Thanks for testing the waters on this one!
Kayla Seah says
Avocado + brownies — I couldn’t think of two better words to combine if I tried. Great recipe!
nancy p says
I made them today. Very good. Light chocolate flavor, more spongy texture, not rich and chewy like some may be use to. But an acceptable, enjoyable substitute.
Chloe says
how is this dairy free if you put chocolate chips in it? would want to make these but have dairy/whey protein…
Rose says
Chloe –
Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Morsels are 69% cacao, and are dairy, nut and soy free. Also, non gmo.
And they taste wonderful!
Chloe says
allergy so can’t do this sadly
NatPatBen says
I made these last night with a few tweaks: Used 1 TBSP honey instead of 1/2 cup. Added 1/2 ripe banana and a few apple juice-infused dried cranberries. Also added some pecan pieces, but they were way too small and barely noticeable. Next time, I’ll use bigger nut pieces. For the chocolate, I used 100% cacao baker’s chocolate (4 pieces of the bar, which looked like ~1/2 cup).
They were really good. My 4 yr old ate them. My aunt felt like they could’ve used more honey, but my intention is to get my taste buds used to less sweetener.
In the past few weeks, I made sweet potato brownies (yum!), beet brownies (yuck), and these. I really enjoyed these and the sweet potato brownies and next will look for a recipe that combines the two.
Shannon says
I was a bit skeptical about this recipe, but these are the best brownies I’ve ever had! I now have a delicious, yet healthy treat to serve my kids. Thank you for sharing!
Merry Kuchle says
Thanks Shannon!
Karen says
I made these today! Husband and grandson loved them. My husband has had to go paleo for medical reasons. So mice to have a fix for his sweet tooth.
Merry Kuchle says
Yay! They really are tasty!
SK says
Can the coconut flour and gluten free baking powder be replaced 1:1 with normal/whole wheat flour and regular baking powder?
Merry Kuchle says
I haven’t tried it so I’m not really sure.