For me,
Christmas time means lots of baking. I grew up helping my mom make everything
homemade from Santa cookies to pies and breads. Naturally, I have followed in
her lead, but to the max. I begin baking just before Thanksgiving and don’t
stop until New Years. It is my absolute favorite thing to do, I look forward to
it all year and plan my recipes out during the “off season”.
This year I decided to make a new
recipe that incorporates our year of bad luck into our Christmas treats. Grinch
Brownies! They turned out even better than I had imagined so I ended up making
multiple batches since the neighborhood kids are always hanging at our house.
Most of you know that I try to eat
completely gluten and dairy free and organic. I did incorporate that into this
recipe by using organic, cage free eggs, gluten free flour and plant-based
butter. The changes in my recipe turned out amazing. The flavor is wonderful! I
found gluten free oreo knock offs at Sprouts, along with gluten free icing for
the topping.
Throwing
everything together was super easy and simple. I basically mixed dry
ingredients separately and then combined it all. The first thing I opted to do
was combine the butter and chocolate chips. The butter I used is Country
Crock Plant Based.
I
spread it in my pan (I actually used 2 small glass pans; size unknown, too lazy
to measure). Make sure to grease these pans! Chosen Foods makes an amazing avocado spray
that I use. It was perfect for the Grinch Brownies. I watched it closely in the
oven (preheated to 350 degrees). It took 40 min to bake, keep in mind I am
aprox 6,000 feet elevation so be sure to watch yours around the 30 min
mark.
Once
the brownies had cooled, I added my white frosting to a bowl and mixed in a few
drops of green food coloring. I found a good premade frosting at either Sprouts
along with an oreo type cookies. Red hots were probably the most difficult
thing to find. I found the good old sugar filled.. unhealthy version at
Walgreens.
ENJOY!
Be sure to tag me if you make them!
-Laura