Allergy-friendly delicious gluten-free, nut-free vegan brownie petit fours baked with quinoa and brown rice flour.
Special thank you to Amore di Mona for sponsoring this post.
I have some serious chocolate indulgence for you today – Vegan Brownie Petit Fours. I’ve realized I don’t even have a brownie recipe on my blog and since I collaborate with a vegan chocolate company, brownies are a must.
Because Amore di Mona chocolate is so luxurious I wanted to create brownies that were little more special and I’ve made them into these cute petit fours. What do you think?
The brownies are really moreish and chocolatey, just what you expect from a good brownie. They are little more sweet than some of my other recipes, but I feel it was needed in this type of brownie. I’ve whisked flax eggs with rapadura sugar first to create some volume, than added olive oil and folded in the dry ingredients. I’ve used a mix of quinoa, brown rice and tapioca flours, but you could add your own spin to this gluten-free mix. Finally fold in good quality melted dark chocolate with high cocoa content.
To make these into petit fours I’ve used 1 1/2″ round pastry cutter. After playing around covering them with chocolate I’ve decided for the simple look and only used a dollop of melted chocolate on top. That way you can see the texture of the brownie and I really like the simplicity of it. Do play around, you can coat the whole brownie, have some chocolate drip over the top, any way you like. For the decoration few simple edible flowers look gorgeous on top. Enjoy:)
Vegan Brownie Petit Fours (gluten-free, nut-free)
Allergy-friendly delicious gluten-free, nut-free vegan brownie petit fours baked with quinoa and brown rice flour.
Ingredients
Brownies:
- 1/2 cup rapadura sugar (75 grams)
- 3 tablespoons ground flaxseed + 9 tablespoons water
- 1/3 cup olive oil (80 ml)
- 1/3 cup brown rice flour (45 grams)
- 1/3 cup quinoa flour (40 grams)
- 2 tablespoons tapioca flour
- pinch sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 5.3-ounce bulk chocolate (3 cubes) or dark vegan chocolate (150 grams)
- 1/3 cup rice milk (80 ml)
Topping:
- 3.5-ounce bulk chocolate (2 cubes) or dark vegan chocolate (100 grams)
- edible flowers
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C)
- Line 8" round baking tin with baking paper.
- Add 3 tablespoons of ground flaxseed into a small bowl, add 9 tablespoons of water, stir and set aside to thicken.
- Finely chop the chocolate and place into small bowl. Gently heat the rice milk until boiling point, pour over finely chopped chocolate and stir until completely smooth. If not completely melted, gently heat in a double boiler.
- In a stand up mixer whisk flax eggs with sugar for about 5 minutes, add olive oil and mix for another minute.
- In a large bowl whisk together brown rice flour, quinoa flour, tapioca, salt and baking powder. Add to the wet ingredients and mix just until incorporated.
- Finally fold in the melted chocolate.
- Spoon into the prepared tin and level the surface.
- Bake for about 20-25 minutes. It's ready when the center stops moving when gently shaken.
- Leave to cool down completely in the tin.
- Once cooled remove from the tin and cut out shapes using 1 1/2" round pastry cutter.
- In a double boiler melt the chocolate for the topping and dollop a spoonful on top of each brownie.
- Decorate with some edible flowers.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16Serving Size:
2Amount Per Serving:Calories: 174Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 54mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 1gSugar: 13gProtein: 2g
Great recipe. What can I use instead of quinoa flour? I am allergic to it. Also, would coconut sugar work?
Hi Sharon, you can use any other gluten-free flour – buckwheat, teff, millet, amaranth, oat flour, ground almonds. Coconut sugar is great. Hope you like them :)
I want to make rhis badly! But I don’t have the gluten free flours. Will it work with all purpose flour?
Hi Kiki, it will, but gluten-free flours absorb more moisture, so you will need less wet ingredients. You could leave out the rice milk, melt the chocolate on it’s own and then add few tablespoons in only if the batter feels too thick. Hope you like the recipe :)
I LOVE petit fours!! I remember the first time I heard about them… it was in the American Girl Dolls series about Samantha (the Victorian American Girl) and she had a tea party with petit fours. The 7-year-old me was dying to have a tea party just like that!! :D
What a lovely story Sarah, I would feel exactly the same! Plus petit fours couldn’t be more girly!
Thank you so much Sasha! What a compliment! You’re right, the light on top looks beautiful, it was just before the chocolate completely set. Hope you’re well too xx
Thank you so much Josephine! :)
These are so pretty Hana!! And perfect for Mother’s day ;-)
Thank you so much Michelle! xxx
Hi ! These look amazing! Wanted check if I could substitute rice milk with coconut or almond milk?
Hi Monisha, yes, you can use either. I’ve used rice milk to keep this recipe nut free.