I've seen recipes for brownies made with avocado which kinda made me scratch my head. So cruising through Pinterest last night I remembered I had saved one of those recipes on my "This is making me hungry" board. I did have enough ripe avocado's to make "avocado brownies" so I put on my apron preheated the oven and went to work. Now being the artist I am makes it hard for me to follow a recipe which isn't always a good thing to do especially in baking. In cooking things it's usually not that big of a deal when you change the recipe a bit but in baking it doesn't always work. But ... since I didn't have some of the ingredients in the recipe I had saved I had to adjust it ... right!? Well I must say they turned out awesome and since it has avocado in it I claim them "healthy". And for those who are wondering just like I was ... can you taste the avocado? ... not at all! Or at least not in my recipe.
Preheat oven to 325.
- I sprayed a glass pan with Baker's Joy non-stick baking spray. You can use parchment paper if you like.
- Mix eggs with the sugar and vanilla liquid
- I mashed the avocados with a fork until pretty smooth and then mixed it in with the eggs and sugar.
- In a separate bowl I mixed the cacao powder, the flour, baking powder and the chocolate chips.
- I then combined the dry ingredients with the wet ones and used a spatula to mix it all together. Only long enough until combined. Probably best not to over stir it.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and put in oven.
- Since I changed the ingredients from the original recipe I had no idea how long these needed to be in the oven so I checked them after 10 minutes and then every 5 minutes. All together they were in the oven for 25 minutes. My pan was pretty big so the batter was only about an inch thick before baking. If you use a smaller pan then the one I used they will need to bake longer.
I put a bit of confectioner sugar on top just for the looks.
Now I couldn't wait until they had totally cooled off to give them a try. I read that if you eat them still warm you would be able to taste the avocado ... well I tried a slice when still warm and couldn't taste the avocado at all ... all I tasted was delicious chocolate brownie! With the ingredients I used they turned out more cake like compared to the gooey brownies. Maybe if you use 4 small avocados they would turn out more gooey? I'm not a professional baker, I'm just an artist putting my own twist on baking these brownies!
Enjoy! and please let me know if you end up trying my recipe on how they turned out for you.
