You know that period of time in your life when you are trying to really watch what you eat because you are currently in the midst of another round of tons of testing with you doctor but then you make these vegan candy bar-stuffed brownies because you have had them planned for a few weeks now and you decide that they smell way too good NOT to have just a small piece? So you eat one and want to drift away into vegan gluten-free heaven because that is exactly what they taste like. What? Is that just me?
My sugar intake has been at an all-time low this past week due to the above mentioned and I haven’t really minded it much…until today when these darn things came out of the oven. I need to get a new job. It was just a small slice, I promise and I also promise that it was worth every bite. A moist, cake-like gluten-free vegan brownie that has been stuffed with vegan Twilights (think Milky Ways), Cleo’s Cups (think Peanut Butter Cups), and No Whey Minis (think Snickers, minus the peanuts), and as if that wasn’t enough, topped off with a coat of nondairy chocolate chips, melted to perfection.
Vegan Candy Bar-Stuffed Brownies
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins
- Total Time: 55 mins
- Yield: 12 1x
- Category: Desserts
Description
Rich, chocolatey gluten free brownies stuffed with vegan candy bars. It’s like a toothache heaven!
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 c. Cara’s All Purpose GF Flour
- 1/3 c. unsweetened dark cocoa powder (or use regular cocoa powder)
- 3/4 c. granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp. sea salt
Wet Ingredients:
- 5 Tbsp. unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 c. mild-flavored oil of choice
- 1/4 c. boiling water
Add-ins:
- 1 c. vegan candy bars of choice, chopped
- 1 1/2 c. nondairy chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8×8 pan. You might even want to dust the sides and bottom with gluten-free flour to keep it from sticking.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- Add all the wet ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon. Fold in chopped up candy bars.
- Pour into the pan and bake for 40-45 minutes until firm along the edges. Don’t freak out when you see that some of the candy bars leave holes in the brownies once melted. That is what the melted chocolate chips are for (see step 6): to cover up the gaps and make this recipe extra decadent.
- Dump the chocolate chips evenly on top of the brownies and place back into the oven fro 3-4 minutes. Remove pan and smooth over with the back of a spoon. Allow to set for a couple of hours on the counter or place in the freezer for 20 minutes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Brownie
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 24g
- Sodium: 95mg
- Fat: 11g
- Carbohydrates: 34g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 4g
One taste of these vegan candy bar-stuffed brownies and you and your loved ones will never turn back on your gluten-free vegan lifestyle. They’re THAT good…
Here is the flour blend that I use:
If you need a recommendation for flour substitutes, this is a great post to read.
This has been a post for the month-long blogging event celebrating vegan food known as Vegan MoFo.
brownies + favorite candy bars = amazingness in my mouth! What a great idea…
Yeah, life just doesn’t get any better than with that combo, now does it? 😉
Wow! My husband said “best brownie ever!” And I didn’t have the added candy bars! Thank you!
Sometimes my treats end up too dry even when I follow the recipe to a T. Is there some thing I can add to make my treats more moist? Thanks.
No way! Really??! Love hearing that! So glad that you guys liked them 🙂 About your question with dryness, there are a few things that could be happening. 1). Do you live at a higher altitude?; 2). Could possibly be an issue with your flour ratio (are you scooping the flour with a spoon or is it getting packed in? Sometimes that has a great affect on the dryness. Do you have a recipe you can share with me (or even just a type of recipe like cookies, brownies, etc.) so I can look it over? Hope this helps!
Thanks for answering. I found the solution is to add more wet ingredients. So applesauce has become my new best friend. Thank you for all your sharing!
Hooray for applesauce saving the day!
Good grief, this looks incredible! I love the Go Max Go Foods bars 😀
I’m JUST now finding these candy bars! They make the best brownie food 🙂
Make sure to take care of yourself, Cara! Im imagine your doing some g.i.testing I was hospitalized for 4 days during my testing and biopsies a couple months back. And DAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM this recipe is the bomb! Frigging delicious…..
Thank you, I’m definitely trying to! I found a great doctor that I feel confident will help me figure this all out. Hopefully it won’t involve days in a hospital (eek!) xo
My brain just exploded. MOVE TO GEORGIA, ALREADY!
And good luck on your testing =)
Uh…you move to LA already!!! Come on! Then again, Georgia sounds like a ton o’ fun with all that good food and belly dancers and such…
You have outdone yourself again! Just when I think the Vegan Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cookies are the bomb, you come out with candy-bar stuffed brownies!
Good luck with your testing. I’ve been through just about everything there is and am now on a super-restricted diet and digestive enzymes galore. Hope you figure it all out!
Haha! Wait until you see what I do with a chocolate cake 😀 Thank you so much for the luck wishes, I really appreciate it! I will be on digestive enzymes galore soon and it looks like restriction will be my middle name too. What will I do with all these brownies???!
those look so amazing – super moist & rich!
I’m still thinking about them Kendy. They were GOOD.
These look really good! Do you think it would work without adding in the candy bars?
Great question Katie. YES! They work perfectly without the candy bars 🙂
good luck with the tests, lady! please let me know how it goes. they can be so scary. and these brownies are my childhood dream come true.
I will definitely keep you updated, thanks friend! I will have some more answers next week so to be continued…
Geez. I’m trying to cut back on the sugar myself and all I can say is I’m darned thankful there is no candy in the house! Therefore, I’ll just trundle off into the kitchen and bake your pumpkin pies. That does make sense, right? Um…
Makes perfect sense! haha. It’s torture to cut back on sugar sometimes (and sometimes I could care less). It’s just that there are those days when all you need is a damn brownie or slice of pie, am I right or am I right?!
You’re always right, I thought everyone knew that. xoxoxo