If you can’t find fresh dates you can use dried dates that you soak in water for a couple of hours.Sizes differ so use a scale if you want to be exact. We use very soft fresh dates that we buy in card board boxes and they are pretty affordable compared to loose weight or medjool dates.A few vegan attempts and various flavor and texture variations. I have gathered a few notes that might come useful in case you want to give them a try. Since that first batch of brownies, there have been at least six more batches.
We’re sharing the recipe and some notes below. But first, check out this little video from our youtube channel where we demonstrate how to make them. Rather than a dessert, I’d say that this is more like an energy bar-style brownie, and I found myself sneaking back to the fridge several times that day for another bite. I added frosting to make them a little more sassy – using dates as sweetener and avocado and coconut oil for an ultra lush and creamy consistency. They turned out really beautiful and jam-packed with good stuff. They didn’t have that crusty texture or typical sugar taste but they were still sweet, gooey but not heavy, chocolatey, energy packed and rich. In reality, they were actually pretty good. Of course when Luise asked me, I did what any 36-year old teenager would do and grunted: “They were okay I guess”. I cut off a corner piece of the baked brownie and quickly realized that they weren’t as awful as I had expected. The whining escalated into a discussion (aka argument) and by the time the timer on my phone rang, things were, well, kind of tense between us. And in my mind that was all Luise’s fault. The crusty top and caramel fudge center that you only can achieve with sugar, butter and flour. I knew these would be far from that. More than the flavor, it was their texture I wanted to recreate. “They are going to taste like sh*t” might have been the carefully formulated phrase I used. Baking brownies was my idea to start with and I usually don’t complain about healthy desserts, but I was tired that day and my mind was set on the caramel-tasting brownies from the bakery across the street. The moment I placed these brownies in the oven, I started whining like a disgruntled teenager because Luise had persuaded me to only sweeten them with dates and mix a whole can of black beans into the batter.
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