Paleo Avocado Brownies (Easy & Healthy)

Paleo Avocado Brownies — Flourless, fudgy, and made in one bowl, these avocado brownies take less than 20 minutes to make.

Made with healthy ingredients, you won’t believe how rich and decadent they are. Paleo, gluten free, dairy free and low carb too!

Easy Avocado Brownies Recipe

Oh Em GEE. These oven baked avocado brownies are so delicious you won’t be able to put them down. They are addicting and do require some will power.

However, you can feel good about eating these brownies. Instead of using flours, processed granulated sugar, and mounds of butter, they are made with simple, healthy ingredients.

Baking with avocado adds a creamy and fudgy texture to these brownies. You can use your food processor, or a mixing bowl and fork. It’s that easy.

How Do The Avocado Brownies Taste?

These brownies are fudgy, soft, rich and decadent, with a moist and chewy texture. Since plenty of cacao powder, almond butter, and chocolate chips are used, you won’t be able to taste the avocado!

Get ready for some chocolate avocado goodness.

How To Make Paleo Avocado Brownies

As I already mentioned, these healthy avocado brownies take just 20 minutes to make and are made in one bowl or food processor.

Preheat oven, and line a 8×8 baking pan with parchment paper. If you don’t have parchment paper, make sure to grease your baking pan.

Simply process the avocado, eggs, vanilla, maple syrup, and coconut oil first. Pulse the food processor 1-2 times until there are no avocado chunks. If you are using a mixing bowl, make sure to mash the avocado before adding other ingredients.

Next, add the rest of the ingredients. Cacao powder, sea salt, baking soda, almond butter, and chocolate chips. I added the chocolate chips here because I wanted them a little more chopped up throughout the batter. I think this makes the brownies fudgier. However, if you want to keep your chocolate chips whole, wait to add them until the batter is processed and smooth.

Using a baking spatula, scrape the batter into the baking pan and spread the batter evenly to all corners. Sprinkle chocolate chips over the batter if you prefer.

Bake the brownies for 15 minutes or until a toothpick or fork inserted comes out clean. I recommend letting the brownies cool for at least 30 minutes, but I’m not going to lie..I’ve eaten them just after 5 minutes, and they were just as delicious. You do you.

I sliced the brownies into 9 even squares, but you could slice them into smaller or larger squares.

What’s in These Chocolate Avocado Brownies?

To make these paleo avocado brownies you’ll need:

• avocado – make sure you grab a medium-large ripe avocado
• eggs
• vanilla
• maple syrup – you can also use honey or coconut sugar. Coconut sugar may change the texture of the brownies a bit.
• coconut oil – sub with ghee or butter
• cacao powder – if you don’t have cacao powder, use cocoa powder.
• sea salt
• baking soda
• almond butter – drippy almond butter is a must for this recipe! If you don’t have almond butter use any other drippy nut butter. Just be aware different nut butters will change the taste of the brownies.
• chocolate chips – I make my avocado brownies with dairy-free dark chocolate chips (I love these)

Baking Tips and Variations

• Make sure the avocado is ripe. If the avocado yields to firm gentle pressure, it is ripe. If the avocado is not ripe, this recipe will not work. It should feel slightly soft, but not mushy to the touch.
• Don’t over mix the batter. This will result in cakey brownies instead of fudgy.
• Use a baking spatula to scrape the batter out of the food processor. This is much easier than using a spoon!
• To make this brownie recipe Keto – use a sweetener such as Lakanto, Stevia, monk fruit, etc. I have not played around with using any of these options, so if you do, let me know in the comments.
• To make this brownie recipe Vegan – replace the 2 eggs for flax eggs instead of regular eggs. Not tested, but let me know how it goes if you try it!
• If you would like to use almond flour or coconut flour that you have on hand for an avocado brownie recipe, try this recipe.

How to Store and Freeze Avocado Brownies

Eat these brownies straight from the fridge or freezer. They are delicious either way.

To refrigerate – store in an air tight glass container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

To freeze – freeze in an air tight glass container for up to 3 months. Warning! These brownies are so delicious straight out of the freezer.

More Paleo Dessert Recipes You’ll Love

• Fudgy Paleo Almond Butter Brownies
• Best Paleo Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Homemade Chocolate Brownie Larabars

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