The Best Vegan Brownie
This Vegan Brownie is the Best you can find, the top is crunchy and the middle fudgy: so so good!
- 250 g Dark vegan Chocolate (approx 8 ounces)
- ¼ cup Cacao Powder
- 1 cup All-purpose Flour
- 1 tbsp Espresso Powder
- 2 cup Blond Cane Sugar
- ½ cup Brown Sugar
- 300 g Silken Tofu
- 1 ¼ cup Margarine (firm one)
- 2 tsp Salt (+ extra for top)
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Preheat your oven to 180°C / 350°F. Position the rack in the middle of the oven.
Grease a 23x30 cm (9x12-inch) metal pan with softened butter, then line with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on all sides.
Making the Batter
Cream the sugar with the silken tofu and half of the margarine with an electric whisk. Add a lot of air, whisk during at least 5 minutes.
In a saucepan, melt the dark chocolate with the other half of the butter.
Once melted add to the sugar/tofu mixture. Continue to whisk for 2 minutes.
Sift the flour, cacao powder, salt, and espresso powder. Add this carefully to the chocolate mixture. Stir delicately with a rubber spatula: from the outside of the bowl to the center, as you would do for macarons.
Pour the batter into the prepared baking tin (approx. 23x30cm / 9x12 in) and smooth the top with a spatula.
Baking
Put the tin in the oven for the first 20 minutes.
Remove the baking pan from the oven. Then, lightly drop the pan on a flat surface 1-2 times until the brownies deflate slightly. Sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
Return the pan into the oven and bake 20 more minutes or until a wooden skewer/ knife blade inserted into the center of the brownie comes out fudgy. A nice crust should have been already created on the top.
Set the brownies on a cooling rack and cool completely. Lift the cooled brownie and cut!