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Triple Chocolate Vegan Brownies! The perfect brownie for birthdays, parties and potlucks. Triple chocolate brownies with chocolate ganache frosting and sprinkles.
May is my favorite month. It’s the month of strawberry season, days that last until 8PM, perfect temperatures for morning runs, my birthday and of course, Mother’s Day. So I made us the most decadent brownies for all of life’s celebrations this time of year. Triple chocolate vegan brownies; studded with cocoa powder, bittersweet chocolate, chocolate chips and chocolate ganache frosting. Chocolate on chocolate. On chocolate. Yup, they are as rich and delicious as they sound.
We invited our best parent friends over for dinner last week to do what we do best: talk about our babies, drink and eat. It’s literally what my business card should read these days. She is really good at talking about her son, making delicious food, eating said food and did I mention talking about her son? I used to be talented. Now, I’m just a mom obsessed with her child. I’m OK with this. I’ve decided that life is already moving at a break-neck speed and I don’t want to look back and feel like I missed the big things. And by the big things I mean all the little things. BL and I literally end each day looking at my phone with all of the photos and videos that were captured over the past 24 hours.
I made these brownies for our friends! And, after we polished off a few rounds of lentil and tofu tacos, we dug into these. Triple chocolate brownies! Because life is worth celebrating. It’s worth eating desserts that have way too much sugar in them sometimes. It’s for putting frosting on those sugar-filled brownies and then still adding sprinkles on top of that. My life is too short to be stressed over every calorie and food choice. Sometimes, you just gotta have the brownie.
I take my brownie craft pretty seriously. I’ve been making brownies since I was in college and well, it’s sorta my thing. I admit that I’m not a great baker but brownies? Brownies I can do. I’ve decided it’s the dessert that I’ll perfect; the dessert that I bring to most potlucks and gatherings. The dessert that friends expect when I show up to their houses.
While my brownie recipe was perfect and requested often, it also wasn’t vegan. Which was OK. I’m not fully vegan by any means but I really wanted to nail the vegan brownie. I wanted my brownies to not only be requested by friends over and over again, but for everyone to be pleasantly surprised when I casually drop that they are vegan.
I don’t know if I’d say these brownies are complicated, but they certainly aren’t dump and bake. They take a little bit more work, but like all good desserts, it’s totally worth it. Make them then share with someone you love.
If you try this recipe, let me know! Leave a comment, rate it, and tag your Instagram photos with #delishknowledge . I absolutely love seeing your creations. Happy cooking!
PrintTriple Chocolate Vegan Brownies! The perfect brownie for birthdays, parties and potlucks. Triple chocolate brownies with chocolate ganache frosting and sprinkles.
Brownies:
Chocolate Ganache Frosting:+
*Most unsweetened chocolate is naturally vegan, though double check to be sure if that’s of interest to you.
**Dutch processed cocoa won’t react with baking soda. Therefore, you will need to substitute baking powder instead of baking soda.
+ Adapted from Minimalist Baker
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This is a delicious recipe! I baked it in a 8X8 pan and did not ice it. I ended up freezing them the second day. They are good frozen, and taste fresh when thawed. Thank you!
★★★★★
I just printed this off to make it and it seems there’s a discrepancy in the ingredients. On the list it says to use baking soda but in the directions it says to use baking powder. Which should it really be?
Hi Andrea– sorry about that. It’s baking soda. Just fixed it!