The easiest vegan brownies! Dense & chocolatey, these brownies make the best easy vegan dessert.
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Yield
9 squares
Prep
5 minutes
Cook
30 minutes
Ingredients
Dry Mix
158 mL flour (volume measure)
158 mL cocoa powder (volume measure)
2.5 mL salt (volume measure)
2.5 mL baking powder (volume measure)
Wet Mix
79 mL vegan butter (volume measure)
237 mL sugar (volume measure)
4.9 mL vanilla extract (volume measure)
59 mL apple sauce (volume measure)
44 mL water (volume measure)
Base draft — original amounts
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2/3 cup flour
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup vegan butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 Tbsp apple sauce
3 Tbsp water
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325° Fahrenheit. Line a 9"x9" baking dish with parchment paper.
Mix dry ingredients together then add the wet ingredients and mix well.
Pour batter into prepared baking dish and bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let cool, then lift parchment out of baking dish and cut into squares.