Non-Dairy Avocado Brownies Keto and Paleo Friendly
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. Using coconut flour here allowed me to still enjoy delicious chocolatey brownies and stick to a keto or paleo eating plan.
Non-Dairy Avocado Brownies
INGREDIENTS
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips/dark chocolate/bittersweet chocolate/etc
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 cup avocado puree, ~2 very large avocados or up to 4 small ones
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup honey
- ½ teaspoon gluten free baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon 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 ½ 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.
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!
Overall, the brownies were very good and very chocolatey. 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
Looking for chocolatey brownies made with REAL ingredients as well as grain-free, dairy-free and paleo/keto? These fudgy paleo avocado brownies are great!
Ingredients
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips/dark chocolate/bittersweet chocolate/etc
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 cup avocado puree, ~2 very large avocados or up to 4 small ones
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup honey
- ½ teaspoon gluten free baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon 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 ½ 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 Information:
Yield:
16Amount Per Serving: Calories: 103Saturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 126mgCarbohydrates: 12gFiber: 1gSugar: 10gProtein: 1g
Looking for other great Paleo or Keto recipes? Try these!
Paleo Breakfast - Messy Egg, Bacon and Veggie Scramble
Paleo Coconut Lime Shrimp Curry
Going to try this tonight! Thanks Merry!
Let me know if you like them!
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.
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/
Thanks so much Merry!!
thanks! i'll check her out.
WHAT THE MACRO BREAKDOWN?
The available nutrition info is in the recipe card. Anything beyond that is up to you to calculate.
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!
Avocado + brownies -- I couldn't think of two better words to combine if I tried. Great recipe!
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.
how is this dairy free if you put chocolate chips in it? would want to make these but have dairy/whey protein...
Chloe -
Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Morsels are 69% cacao, and are dairy, nut and soy free. Also, non gmo.
And they taste wonderful!
allergy so can't do this sadly
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.
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!
Thanks Shannon!
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.
Yay! They really are tasty!
Can the coconut flour and gluten free baking powder be replaced 1:1 with normal/whole wheat flour and regular baking powder?
I haven't tried it so I'm not really sure.