Fudgy Vegan Chocolate Brownies
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Dense, fudgy squares with a crackly top and gooey middle, made with dark chocolate and cocoa — no eggs or butter needed. A one-bowl bake that tastes like the bakery classic.
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Steps
Prepare
Heat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan) and line a 20cm square tin with baking paper. Mix the flaxseed with the water in a small bowl and let it sit for about 5 minutes until it turns gel-like.
- 2 tbsp
- 90ml water or plant milk
✅ Done when: mixture looks thick and gel-like
Melt the chocolate
Put 150g of the chopped chocolate and the oil in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water (a ), without the bowl touching the water. Stir until completely smooth; you can also melt it in the microwave in 20-second bursts, stirring between each.
- 150g dark chocolate
- 120ml oil
✅ Done when: chocolate is fully melted and glossy
Whisk in the sugar
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Add the dry ingredients
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Bake
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Cool and cut
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Prepare
Heat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan) and line a 20cm square tin with baking paper. Mix the flaxseed with the water in a small bowl and let it sit for about 5 minutes until it turns gel-like.
- 2 tbsp
- 90ml water or plant milk
✅ Done when: mixture looks thick and gel-like
Melt the chocolate
Put 150g of the chopped chocolate and the oil in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water (a ), without the bowl touching the water. Stir until completely smooth; you can also melt it in the microwave in 20-second bursts, stirring between each.
- 150g dark chocolate
- 120ml oil
✅ Done when: chocolate is fully melted and glossy
Whisk in the sugar
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Add the dry ingredients
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Bake
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Cool and cut
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The Story Behind the Dish
The most popular origin story places the first chocolate brownie in the kitchens of Chicago's Palmer House Hotel, created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition as a cake small enough to fit in a lady's boxed lunch.
Within a few decades, brownie recipes were appearing in American cookbooks, and the fudgy-versus-cakey debate has been running ever since.
⭐ Why It's Famous
The brownie is America's favourite bake-sale treat, and it adapts brilliantly to plant-based baking because chocolate, sugar and fat do most of the work.
💡 Fun Fact
The 1896 edition of Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book printed a recipe called 'brownies' — but it contained no chocolate at all; they were coloured with molasses.
Chicago, United States
41.88°N, -87.63°W
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