These grain and gluten free brownies are far more healthy than your average brownie, and actually come packed with super nutritious ingredients, the most important one being cacao powder. 

These brownies do not compromise on flavor though, and you won’t be able to tell the difference between these and your average brownie. They are made with cassava flour, which is made from the cassava root vegetable. I find it is the closest grain free alternative to wheat flour. It is quite easy to find in most grocery stores these days but if you can’t, try your local natural health food store.

I also provide options below on making this recipe keto/low carb, vegan and candida diet friendly.

Product brands I recommend for this recipe

Here are the brands that I used for this recipe to keep it consistent and get the best result for this recipe.

• Nutiva butter flavored coconut oil
• Bob’s Red Mill cassava flour
• Prana cacao powder
• President’s Choice organics granulated cane syrup
• Real Salt

Recipe substitutions

Coconut oil substitutions: if you can’t access butter flavored coconut oil, you can also swap it out for regular coconut oil (either virgin cold pressed or refined and flavorless). Alternatively, you can also swap this out for vegan butter or any other oil of your choice.

Sugar substitutions: instead of using white and brown sugar for this recipe, you can also use coconut palm nectar in its place. Or if you are on a low carb diet, feel free to swap it out for a granulated sugar free substitute. I don’t suggest using any liquid sweetener such as maple syrup because it will throw off the wet ingredients to dry ingredients ratio and will affect the end result.

Flour substitutions: if you don’t have cassava flour, you can also use a gluten-free flour blend. If you do this though, I suggest using slightly more gluten-free flour than you would cassava flour because I find cassava flour soaks up more liquid. There are also other starches you can use such as tapioca flour / tapioca starch, arrowroot starch, potato starch etc.

Cacao powder substitutions: if you don’t have cacao powder (which is the unprocessed form of the cocoa bean), you can also use dark cocoa powder which is very similar in flavor but goes through more processing than the more natural cacao powder.

Dietary modifications

Make this recipe paleo: instead of using white and brown sugar, use one full cup of coconut palm nectar sugar (granulated, not syrup).

Make this recipe vegan: replace the two eggs in this recipe with two vegan egg replacements.

Make this recipe keto: replace the white and brown sugars with a low carb granulated sugar alternative such as swerve. If you don’t do well with sugar alcohols, try using powdered stevia or liquid stevia drops.

Make this recipe candida diet friendly: instead of using white and brown sugar, swap it out for a sugar-free granulated alternative such as Swerve. There are mixed opinions about whether cassava flour is candida diet friendly, but I personally find myself that it does not aggravate my symptoms because although it is higher in carbohydrates, it is quite low in sugar. If you know you can’t do cassava flour, you could also try using a combination of almond flour and coconut flour but I haven’t tested it out so I’m not sure if you will get different results. If you try it, let me know in the comments!  

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If you liked my brownie recipe, you might also like my other cassava flour recipes:

• Cassava flour banana bread
• Paleo cassava flour coffee cake
• Paleo fried chicken
• Raspberry cassava flour muffins
• Cassava flour chocolate cupcakes
• Cassava flour chocolate chip cookies
• Paleo lemon poppy seed muffins
• Paleo pumpkin muffins
• Chocolate cassava flour donuts
• Cassava flour pizza crust

Or my other brownie recipes:

• Fudgy Avocado Brownies
• Banana Oat Flour Brownies

Cassava Flour Brownies Recipe (Paleo & Gluten Free)

Tara Klippert

These brownies are gluten free, dairy free, paleo, grain free and soy free.

4.56 from 9 votes

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 9

Calories 240 kcal

Equipment

• Stand mixer
• Baking sheet
• Parchment paper
• Measuring cups and spoons
• Spatula

Ingredients

  

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• 1/2 cup cassava flour
• 1/2 cup cacao powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1/2 cup white sugar (or coconut sugar)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup coconut oil (melted)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

 

• Preheat your oven to 325F.
• In a large mixing bowl or kitchen aid mixer, mix together all the dry ingredients including cassava flour, cacao powder, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
• Add 2 room temperature eggs, melted coconut oil and vanilla to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly until the batter is smooth.
• Grease a 9 x 9" baking pan with coconut oil, or line it with parchment paper.
• Using a spatula, transfer all of the chocolate mixture into the baking pan.
• Bake brownies at 325°F for 25 minutes. The brownies will still be quite soft when you take them out of the oven, but they will firm up once they cool down.
• Let the brownies cool completely before removing them from the pan and cutting them. This will prevent them from falling apart! These bad boys are super chewy and rich with crunchy edges and fudgy middles.

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Nutrition

Calories: 240kcalCarbohydrates: 28.2gProtein: 3.2gFat: 13.7gSaturated Fat: 0gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 1.2gTrans Fat: 0gCholesterol: 41.3mgSodium: 80mgPotassium: 267mgFiber: 3.2gSugar: 18.6g

Keyword dairy free, gluten free, grain free, paleo, soy free

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