Dark Chocolate Banana Bread Brownies
 
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Recipe type: Dessert/Snack
Ingredients
  • 1 and ¼ cup buckwheat flour
  • ¾ cup ground flaxseed
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • ¼ cup butter, softened
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1½ cups mashed ripe banana (about 3 bananas)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3.5 ounces gluten-free dark chocolate (I've used Lindt Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt and 70% dark chocolate - both were amazing - but feel free to use your favorite dark chocolate)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Get your old bananas out and mash them.
  2. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine the buckwheat and flax flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a whisk.
  3. Place applesauce and butter in a large bowl, and mix by hand (my preference) or beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 1 minute). Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing/beating well after each addition. Add banana and vanilla; mix/beat until blended. Add flour mixture; mix/beat at low speed just until moist.
  4. Cut the dark chocolate into little pieces and gently mix the pieces into the batter.
  5. Spoon batter into a baking pan coated with cooking spray. Use a 9 x 12 rectangular pan for thin brownie squares or an 8 x 8 pan for thicker brownie squares. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. The thicker brownies in the 8 x 8 pan need a few extra minutes.
  6. You should cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan....but they're just too good to wait! Look at that gooey melted chocolate! Who can resist that? Certainly not me...
Recipe by Healthy Recipe Ecstasy at https://www.healthyrecipeecstasy.com/dark-chocolate-banana-bread-squares/