Almonds are a superfood and highly nutritious. I love baking with almond flour, and wrote the The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook in 2008. Fans often call me the “Queen of Almond Flour.” Still, I sometimes get requests for nut-free paleo dessert recipes and often people need egg-free recipes as well. There are as many food allergies as there are colors in the rainbow. That’s why I created this easy paleo brownie recipe! It’s for all the nut-free, egg-free, refined sugar-free, gluten-free, paleo vegans in my life. You keep me on my toes! And I love it.
This recipe uses sunflower seed butter, which is similar to nut butter, though totally nut-free. Sunflower seed butter is gluten-free, high-protein and made from highly nutritious sunflower seeds. You didn’t think I was going to use rice flour to make these paleo nut-free brownies, did you?! I’m still as grain-free as I’ve ever been since I went on a paleo diet in 2001. All of the recipes on this website are gluten and grain free recipes.
Vegan Nut-Free Gluten-Free Brownies
Ingredients
- 2 small bananas
- 1 cup sunbutter
- 2 tablespoons ground chia seeds, mixed with 3 tablespoons water to form a paste
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave nectar
- ¼ cup xylitol
- ⅛ teaspoon stevia
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup cacao powder
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine bananas, sunbutter, and chia seed mixture
- Pulse in coconut oil, honey, xylitol, stevia, and vanilla until smooth
- Pulse in cacao, salt, and baking soda
- Transfer batter into a well greased 8 x 8 inch baking dish
- Bake at 350°F for 30-45 minutes
- Serve
These Vegan Nut-Free Gluten-Free Brownies are based on a gluten-free brownie recipe that was posted on my Facebook page. That recipe used ½ cup of honey which is a little much for where my blood sugar is at these days. So I decreased the amount of honey and added in some xylitol and stevia. I also increased the fat and made a couple of other changes to the recipe. This is a very fudgey brownie –it won’t seem totally cooked through when you pull it from the oven. I took mine out when the edges were just about to burn, that was how I determined it was done.
Now, a word of caution. Do not feed this dessert to your pets. Chocolate and xylitol are highly toxic to animals. Have any of you been feeding my other desserts to your pets? If so, why are you doing this? Please leave a comment and let us know!
If you love these gluten-free, grain-free, egg-free, nut-free, refined sugar-free, everything-free brownies, you’ll love these desserts:
Gena says
Elana, THANK YOU x100 for this very vegan-friendly and brilliantly innovative recipe!
Elana says
Gena, you’re welcome!
Lavina says
Elana, I have been looking for a nut free brownie recipe. This looks yummy!
Elana says
Lavina, here’s a link to my other Nut-Free Dessert recipes for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/special-diets/nut-free-dessert/
Enjoy!
Elana
Mia says
Thank you Elana! This sounds great. It’s good to have new recipes using xylitol, since that is my primary baking sugar substitute.
Elana says
Mia, you’re welcome!
debi says
ha ha that was good! Looks so yummy, cant wait to try! I dont ever feed my dog yummy treats as such, but to be honest, he is a big thief,a yellow lab thief!
Thank you so much for all the time you put into this blog i love it! and all your wonderful recipes. Happy new year to you and yours!! debi
Elana says
Debi, thanks for your comment!
The Healthy Apple says
You are a genius; enough said. I love your recipes and you are incredible. Keep up the amazing work in 2012, Elana…
xo
Elana says
Thanks!
Bria @ West of Persia says
These look fabulous, Elana. And I actually have almost everything on hand, including the sunbutter.
Elana says
Thanks Bria!
Pat says
This sounds great Elana. I’m not nut or egg free, but I have friends who are.
I’ve actually made your scrumptious sandwich bread (from your almond flour cookbook) with sunflower seed butter and it worked great!
And thanks again for recommending The Paleo Solution. I’ve cut out grains almost entirely and I think this is finally something that works for me, after being gluten free for 25 years.
Cheers!
Pat
Elana says
Thanks Pat!
Heather @ Bake, Run, Live says
I have everything in my pantry except the stevia and Xylitol. I wonder if they would be sweet enough without?
Sara says
They definitely wouldn’t be sweet enough without those two but you could just put in the 1/2 cup of honey Elana mentioned in her blog entry…
Kim says
But what about chocolate-free for those of us sensitive to chocolate. KIDDING!! :D
Hannah says
You could use carob chips instead if you really wanted to
PS says
I suspect you’re going to make a lot of people happy with this recipe :-) I don’t have nut allergies but it still sounds SO good. I’m bookmarking it to give it a try down the road.
Elana says
Thanks PS!