Perfectly Fudgy Gluten Free Brownies

If there is anything I love more than chocolates, that would be chocolate brownies. Some people like their brownies more cakey and others prefer it to be on the fudgy side. I stand somewhere in between. I like light crumbs in my brownies yet as the same time have these crumbs meld together to form some fudgy goodness... omphhhh bring me some brownies already. 

Perfectly Fudgy Gluten Free Brownies

Makes one 8" x 8" square tin
3 tblspn organic extra virgin coconut oil
216g dark chocolate (i use 55%)
70g light brown sugar
100g finely ground almond flour
¼ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract

• Preheat oven to 160C. 
• Line an 8x8-inch baking pan with parchment paper.
• Microwave and melt coconut oil and chocolate until smooth. Set aside.
• Meanwhile in a small bowl combine almond flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In seperate bowl whisk melted chocolate mixture with brown sugar until smooth. 
• Whisk in eggs. 
• Whisk in flour mixture, then vanilla extract.
• Pour into prepared baking tin. 
• Bake 27-35 minutes just until set. (Take note: Do not over bake!)
• Cool in the pan completely before removing and cutting the brownies. 
• Serve chilled or warmed slightly atop some vanilla bean ice cream.

*(you can fold in some chocolate chips into the batter prior to pouring the batter into the baking tin if you would like but i really didn't want those chunks in my brownies so I omitted them.)

Note: Do not use a electric mixer to make brownies or you will end up incorporating too much air into the batter and have chocolate cake instead.

I cut mine into bite-sized rectangular pieces and dressed the ends with a teeny bit of melted chocolate so that I could stick chopped nuts onto the brownies. Just for aesthetic purposes so you can totally omit that if you don't want to. 

These tastes better on the second day as the flavour develops. So grab a small bite if you cant resist and save the rest in the refrigerator. The wait promising to be rewarding i assure you!

So who said gluten-free desserts cannot be equally delicious?