Egg-Free, Corn-Free Brownies Recipe

This recipe is another one of those adaptations made for my son, who is allergic to corn and egg. Corn folks, watch your ingredients — Here I use King Arthur flour, pure cane sugar and of course, non-iodized sea salt. Also, the sugar is a homemade vanilla sugar that I keep on hand. I just put a few cups of sugar in a tin with several vanilla pods. Every time I take a cup out, I mix a cup back in, that way I never need to use vanilla with corn distilled alcohol or corn syrup added to it. I also have a jar of potato vodka with a vanilla bean in it, but it’s not quite ready for use yet. It seems to take a while to get going… If you’re only going for corn-free and don’t care if it’s eggless, add in 2 eggs and omit the oil and banana.

• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 cup sugar (or vanilla sugar — just omit the vanilla below)
• 1 Tablespoon oil (like sunflower or canola if you don’t react to that)
• 1 mashed banana (small to medium sized)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla (again, omit if using vanilla sugar)
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 to 1 cup Chocolate chips (Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet and Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Morsels are corn-free), walnuts, raisins, or whatever you would like to add in… it’s up to you. I usually add 1/2 cup of chocolate chips because I’m a haus like that.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Butter or oil an 8 x 8 pan.
3. Mix melted butter and cocoa until smooth and cocoa is completely blended in.
4. Add sugar and stir well.
5. Add vanilla, oil and banana and stir well.
6. Add flour, salt and baking soda — stir only until you can’t see the flour any more. In fact, for this whole recipe don’t use a blender or anything. I just use a rubber spatula to stir it all up.
7. Add chocolate chips (or whatever your preferred add-in is) and stir till they are just mixed into the batter.
8. Then spread into the pan and bake for 30 minutes. Don’t cook for much longer than this or they turn out too dry. You can’t do the cake test with these, either. A toothpick or knife will not come out clean, especially if you used chocolate chips.