Chewy Chocolate Brownie Hearts Recipe

Dessert, Gluten-Free, Healthy, Sides, Vegan

Valentine’s Day is coming up! Last year, I made a video for a Brown Velvet Sheet Cake shaped in form of a heart. This year, I decided to continue my tradition and share with you another healthy, heart-shaped dessert. ♥♥♥

I think these Chewy Chocolate Brownies will make the perfect treat for this special day. You know what? Scratch that. They are perfect for any day when you want to treat yourself with a guilt-free yumminess. These brownies are dairy-free, free of refined white sugar and are almost gluten-free. Watch the video to find out how you can easily turn this recipe into a gluten-free dessert.

I can tell you for sure that if you make these babies for your loved ones they will LOVE YOU forever. And ever. And will not stop bugging you to make these brownies again and again.

Chewy Chocolate Brownie Hearts Recipe by FablunchI’m using some of my favourite healthy baking ingredients in this recipe such as spelt flour, coconut oil, agave and applesauce. I’m considering making a blog post with a list of all healthy baking ingredients I use and how to make healthy substitutions in baking. Let me know if that’s something you guys would be interesting in reading.

Chewy Chocolate Brownie Hearts Recipe by FablunchFor now, let me just tell you that if you haven’t tried baking with spelt flour, you are missing out big time. I talked a bit about the health benefits of this flour in my oatmeal cookies post. And I promise you after you use spelt flour once, you won’t want to go back to white flour ever again.

Spelt FlourHow can you make these chocolate brownies even more chocolaty? Simple, my friends. Just frost them with a delicious vegan chocolate ganache. Mmmm perfecto!

Chewy Chocolate Brownie Hearts Recipe by FablunchJust look at them! Don’t these babies make you wanna make a nice cup of tea and just om nom nom nom?

Why does “nom” represent the sound of eating? Who makes this sound? Weird…

Anyways, I definitely think you should make these brownie hearts for yourself as well as your loved ones. Because loving yourself is the greatest love of all ♥

Chewy Chocolate Brownie Hearts Recipe by FablunchYou can make this recipe a double dessert by turning the scrapes into brownie bites.

DOUBLE WIN!

Vegan Chocolate Brownie Bites by Fablunch

Chewy Chocolate Brownie Hearts Recipe
 
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Serves: 4 hearts and 15 bites
Ingredients
Brownie Hearts
  • 1 cup spelt or oat flour
  • ½ cup cocoa powder, extra for decorating
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • ¾ cup agave or maple syrup
  • ½ cup applesauce
  • ⅓ cup melted coconut oil, extra for greasing the pan
  • ½ cup almond milk
  • 1½ tsp vanilla
  • ⅓ cup dark chocolate chips
Brownie Bites Coatings
  • cocoa powder
  • shredded coconut
  • crushed nuts
Directions
Brownie Hearts
  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease an 8x8 baking pan with a little bit of coconut oil.
  2. Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix together the wet ingredients.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix. Stir in the dark chocolate chips.
  5. Bake for 35 min or until the toothpick comes out clean.
  6. Let cool completely.
  7. Cut out 4 hearts using a 2½ inch cookie cutter. Dust each heart brownie with cocoa powder or frost with chocolate ganache.
Brownie Bites
  1. Break leftovers into smaller pieces and form into 1-inch balls.
  2. Roll each ball in a coating that you like.
Notes
Storage: store brownies in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 7 days.

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Comments

  1. Valentine’s Day is coming up! Time to make some healthy heart shaped
    desserts ♥ Nothing else says “I love you” like a mouth watering chocolate
    brownie made with love and other healthy ingredients 😉

  17. Can i use two flax/chiaeggs (1 Tbs ground flaxseed/chiaseeds + 3 Tbs water
    = 1 egg)instead of applesauce?????

  19. Thank you Olga! What a lovely idea!

    And yes, I’m REALLY intered by a list of healthy subsititutes for baking 🙂 That’s awesome!

    Have a good day,

    xx from Switzerland

  21. Loved it! Gonna try it tonight, can’t wait until Valentine’s Day :)) Thank
    you for sharing it with us! <3

  27. it was a nice treat to see more than one dessert type. these look soooo
    good!!! <3

  29. Looks awesome! I will definitely be trying these. Spelt flour is one of my favorite baking flours, so this is great. 🙂

  46. Oooh these look so amazing! I’ve never heard of Spelt flour. I’ll have to
    look it up.

  48. Do you know how many calories these are? They look so good btw can’t wait
    to try them (:

  60. Oat is gluten… Wheat Rye Barley Malt or Oat… Don’t use oat flour. Use
    soy flour if you want gluten free flour.

  61. Thanks for the bee-u-tiful recipe..Im gonna try it tonite:) 🙂

    U have a lovely voice btw…

  63. WOW! Those look soooooo good!! I haven’t made my vegan older sister a
    desert in a LONG while!! I can’t wait to start baking!

  64. I have bake this chewy brownie tdy!!! !My family love it! Really gd!!! Oh
    more baking recipes please! Thank u

  65. Hi! My little brother is allergic to nuts and soy, so I can’t use almond
    milk or soymilk. Is there anything that I can replace it with?

  71. Made them and they were so delish!!!! Even my picky siblings didn’t notice
    that they were different from a normal brownie!

  73. you are so pretty and smart and talented. anyways. I am a vegan and I
    normally just eat a lot of fruits and veges. But now with your recipes I
    can enjoy more options. Thank you darling!

  75. Girl!! This video is seriously making me salivate! Great recipe, I’m gonna
    try this. Love from the UK xx

  77. Wasn’t crazy about how it tasted, so i put shredded coconut all on top and
    that made it taste much better! Still feel better about eating this than a
    cookie lol

  81. hrm… i am gluten allergic ( celiac disease) and oats contain gluten,
    doesn’t it?

  87. I don’t have cocoa powder on me now and I still want to make this recipe so
    is there a substitute ingredient I can add instead of cocoa powder?

  89. SOOOOOO GOOOD!!!
    Best recipe for brownies without white flour, white sugar and milk products
    I’ve ever tried!
    Thank you <3

  91. Really love how you included an easy way to take the left over brownies and
    make them into something completely different. Thank you!

  92. What a nice recipe! – But well.. Spelt flour does contain gluten – and so
    does oat flour. So it’s not “almost” gluten free. It’s not gluten free at
    all.

  95. i made these over the weekend and they taste amazing! i think i ate too
    many for them to still count as healthy though oops

  96. Thanks a lot my dear..; hope you are having a nice day 🙂 Im glad I found
    your blog because I need to start to introduce vegan desserts at the place
    I work!!

  97. I just tried a chocolate avocado mousse that I hated and this video makes
    me wish I had spent my money buying the ingredients for this recipe
    instead! Looks absolutely delicious!

    You have such a cool accent!

  99. I made this for a bake sale at my school and everyone loved it i made it
    completely gluten free and my grandma she doesn’t like chocolate but she
    loves this 🙂

  101. Hi I am highly allergic to coconut is there any ingredient I can use to
    substitute it?

  105. I just found your channel! I love your voice over and all of your recipes
    sound delicious! My mouth is watering, can’t wait to try these… thanks!

  106. Hey Olga, I’m vegan and allergic to apples, what could I substitute the
    sauce for? 🙂

  107. +Andre Maitzeth para comer chocolate sin engordar (mucho) jajajaja

  111. i really like your videos, could you maybe do some recipes for the winter,
    warm and soft recipes, maybe a sorth of sauce? idk, 😉

  118. Hello! Is there any way of getting the exact measurements of the
    ingredients we should use? thank you

  120. hey! 🙂 I have a lot of allergies. .. Most of your recepies I manage to
    adapted. but what could I replace the apple sauce with?
    🙂

  123. Oh Olga, first of all they really look delish!!
    But I have a question , you say that this recipe is completely free of refined sugars, right, but what about the chocolate chips you put into the mixture? What would you suggest putting there instead, I`m afraid if I leave those out the whole consistency will be a lot different:/

    Thank you very much in advance!

  124. hi Olga, lovely recipe! I would like to know if I can substitute the applesauce with flax or chia eggs? if yes what’s the amount that I should use? it’d be great if you could reply. thank you so much love your channel! 🙂