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Delicious chocolate brownies flavoured with gingerbread spices. Our secret ingredient for fudgey brownies is black beans and they also add a brilliant nutritional boost too!
Ingredients
- 1 tin (425g) black beans
- 3 large eggs
- 40ml oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 100g sugar
- 30g cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 50g chocolate chips
To top:
- 16 mini gingerbread men
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- christmas sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170c fan.
- Drain and rinse the black beans and add to a food processor. Blitz for a few seconds until they are broken up.
- Add the eggs, oil and vanilla to the food processor and blitz again until all the ingredients are well combined.
- Add the sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and spices to a large bowl and mix with a spoon.
- Pour in the black bean mixture and mix until combined.
- Finally, fold in the chocolate chips.
- Pour the mixture into a lined brownie tin and bake for 20 minutes.
- Allow the brownies to cool a little before cutting into 16 squares.
- Mix the icing sugar with a couple of drops of water and a little to the back of the mini gingerbread men, then stick on to the top of each brownies.
- Finish with some christmas sprinkles.
Notes
These brownies will keep in an airtight tin for up to 3 days.
They can also be frozen and defrosted at room temperature. Freeze without the gingerbread men as these will go soggy once frozen and defrosted.