Prepare to fall head-over-heels in love with these ooey gooey rich dark chocolate chickpea brownies.
Brownies… made from chickpeas???!
I know the concept sounds completely crazy.
But if you’ve tried any of my bean-based dessert recipes (especially the deep dish cookie pie!), you probably already know that the results can not only taste just as good as traditional butter-and-flour desserts, they’re often even better.
The beans add a softness and moisture to the texture that you just can’t get from flour, and people who don’t already know the secret ingredient ahead of time are seriously never able to guess!
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Flourless Chocolate Chickpea Brownies
These brownies are a combination of two reader favorites:
In other words, it’s the perfect recipe for anyone who hates making decisions.
They’re also great if you’re following a whole food plant based diet, because you can easily make the brownies oil-free without sacrificing any of the rich texture or decadent chocolate flavor.
Try frosting them with my Healthy Chocolate Frosting.
Or, the brownies are so deeply fudgy they honestly don’t even need any frosting at all.
I decided to add some because it makes them look much prettier, and also because I will never pass up an excuse to add an obscene amount of chocolate to a recipe any time the opportunity presents itself.
I’m Chocolate Covered Katie for a reason.
(Above – Watch the video of making the chickpea brownies)
Have leftover chickpeas?
Make up a batch of Flourless Blender Muffins, or use them in my favorite Veggie Burger Recipe.
Or, you know, just make more brownies…
Chocolate Chickpea Brownies
Ingredients
- 1 can chickpeas or white beans
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp dutch cocoa or additional regular
- 1/3 cup flour (white, oat, spelt, almond, sorghum, etc.)
- 3 tbsp milk of choice or applesauce
- 3 tbsp oil or nut butter of choice
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp each: salt and baking soda
- 1/2 cup sugar (for refined-sugar-free, try these Black Bean Brownies)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips – not optional (omit at own risk)
Instructions
- To make the brownies: Drain and rinse beans very well. Preheat oven to 330 F. Grease or line an 8-inch pan. Combine all ingredients in a food processor until completely smooth. A blender can technically work, but both taste and texture will be better in a food processor. Spread into pan. If desired, sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top. Bake on the center rack 14 minutes, then chill the still-underbaked brownies until firm. They taste better the next day, so I highly recommend not sneaking a taste until then! If desired, frost with melted chocolate chips or my healthy chocolate frosting recipe linked above in this post.View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
More Healthy Brownie Recipes
(No crazy ingredients!)
You know, I can remember a time when there were zero brownie recipes on my blog? How things have changed!
Great recipe, I definitely want to try it this weekend. I have coconut flour that I’ve had for awhile and should probably be used, could that work in this recipe?
Nevermind, I found your note in the recipe, one of the pictures was having trouble loading, so I reloaded the page and then accidentally skipped over it. I’ll let you know how the coconut flour works out if I try it!
Awesome, I’m definitely curious to know! Also sorry about the slow loading… we are working on hopefully making the site faster soon!
This recipe worked great with coconut flour! I used 2tbsp. Also, it still works without the chocolate chips, I unfortunately had to omit because I didn’t have any.
Thank you so much for reporting back! 🙂
Jason (media relations)
What size can of chick peas?
Standard US size, 15 oz 🙂
We don’t all live in the US, but thanks for assuming.
A quick internet search should help you to covert ounces to another form of measurement. Have a great day! 🙂
The recipe itself though says only one can without specifying ounces. Where I live there are 2 “standard” sizes of chick pea cans, as we also have for pumpkin etc. Hence, for many of us outside the US we may use the wrong size ton of chick peas. For others outside US with both the smaller & larger tins, it is the smaller tin here, it appears (398ml for most countries).
Rude
@Lois Unnecessarily rude comment considering she or her team took the time to reply…
Thank you for clarifying, Jason — that was my question as well.
hello Nice recepie, i would like how much chick peas flour can i use for substitue chickpeas canne
Sorry we have not tried it so really have no idea how/if it would work. Be sure to report back if you experiment!
Jason (media relations)
Made these this evening. I didn’t wait for them to firm up over night but they were fantastic. I liked these better than the black bean ones. So good.
Delicious. My whole family enjoyed a great treat.
I made this recipe using oil, almond milk and all purpose flour, and didn’t make the frosting. It was off the charts amazing! The non vegan naysayers were reluctant to try it but after one bite they were hooked. These will definitely become my new go to brownie recipe!!
These were RIDICULOUSLY GOOD! THANK YOU!!!!
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Thanks for the recipe, we loved them! New vegans here and your site has been such a helpful resource for us. Next on the list is the chickpea cookie dough.
Hi! I would like to know if I can use Xylitol instead of sugar?
I don’t see why not. We haven’t tried here, but in general for baked goods it’s just a 1-to-1 sub. Be sure to report back if you make them!
Jason (media relations)
Hello Katie, i am just baking this fabulons Brownies and if i am able to follow your recommendations, we will wait till tomorrow evening to taste it as we invited family… do i have to keep it in the freedge ?
You can definitely leave them out for a day!
very cool recipe.thank you so much for sharing.
Would coconut sugar work for this recipe?
Yes!
Hi there, any sense of if this would work with butter beans or light kidney?
This was amazing and the frosting to die for!
Baking a double batch of these riiight now for my Grade 8 students! They’ll never be able to tell the main ingredient 😀 we’ve spoken a fair amount about what each individual can do for our planet and veganism came up. They challenged themselves to a vegan week. I was so impressed that I promised them a vegan treat if they managed – and they did!
This is so awesome!
You need help. While this recipe sounds great you should not push the vegan cult on kids. Bad teacher.
Lions eat animals you should try to feed them some kale chips
The flavor is great but the consistency is more like fudge. I was disappointed as I was looking for more of a brownie.
Lol well they are described as super fudgy 😉
Try her tinder brownie recipe for more of a traditional-tasting brownie!
Hi,
You know what i like the most about your articles on recipe is the photo illustration that is so amazing. my mouth filled with water. this is so amazing and tasty. I can’t resist my self to have it.