Amazing brownies

I've been looking for the perfect GF/DF brownies recipe. The one where you wouldn't feel like something is lacking. It's really easy to replace the flour since brownies don't contain much, but I was sceptic as far as butter was concerned. Surfing French cooking blogs, I found the lovely blog Bien fait pour ta pomme and a recipe using almond butter instead of butter. I had to try it :)

Ingredients (for a big brownie)

- 400 g of dark chocolate

- 180 g of caster sugar (or 100 g of caster sugar and 80 g of muscovado sugar)

- 55 g of corn flour

- 4 eggs

- 70 g of almond butter

- 70 g of vegetable oil

- 2 tbsp of cocoa powder

- 60 g of nuts (I used half hazelnuts/half almonds)

- 50 g of dark chocolate chips

Directions

1/ Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2/ Melt the chocolate in the microwave. Stir in the almond butter and the oil to get a smooth mixture.

3/ Stir in the sugar, then the eggs (one at a time until well incorporated). Sieve in the corn flour and cocoa powder. Add the nuts (whole or chopped, as you prefer) and the chocolate chips. Stir well.

4/ Pour the mixture in a square tin lined with greaseproof paper. Bake for 25 minutes.

I have done the recipe twice so far and both were a huge success (although the first one was with half of the proportions only and I found the brownie far too thin, that's why I'm doubling it!)

Variations : You can replace the almond butter by another nut butter (I still need to try with peanut butter!), add cranberries, raisins, etc., use all different kinds of nuts. Enjoy!