If you love brownies, donuts and healthy eating, these Black Bean Brownie Donuts are for you! Vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, no refined sugars, high in protein and loaded with Omega-3’s. These Brownie Donuts don’t contain nuts, so if you have little ones at home pack these donuts in their lunchbox as a special treat.

Melt in your mouth chocolate brownie in a fun donut shape. Black Bean Brownie Donuts are fudgy and dense like a brownie should be but these are not your average donut, these are treats you’ll feel good about eating and giving to your family. This batter can be whipped up in minutes with very little mess to clean up. What could be better?

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Tools You Need To Make Brownie Donuts

All that is required to make these donuts is a food processor (or blender) and donut molds. That is it! If you don’t own donut molds buy the ones I use here or substitute muffin tins.

Ingredients You’ll Need

Black beans
Ground flax
Hemp Seed
Coconut oil
Raw cocoa powder or cacao
Coconut sugar
Baking powder
Vanilla extract
Salt

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What’s The Difference Between Cacoa or Cacao Powder?

Cocoa and cacao are often confused for one another. They look similar and are spelled almost identical but there is indeed difference. Most people are familiar with cocoa powder. It’s commonly used for baking or in hot chocolate.

Recently, cacao is rising in popularity as people begin to become more health conscious and shift towards more natural and vegan diets. So what is the difference between cocoa and cacao (besides the spelling)? The answer is in the way it’s heated.

Both cocoa and cacao powder begin as beans from the cacao plant. They have been separated from the fatty part of the bean known as cocoa butter. These beans are harvested and fermented to develop flavour and texture. The more common cocoa is processed at a much higher temperature and often contains added refined sugar and dairy. The result is a less bitter, slightly darker powder that has lost some of it’s nutritional value.

On the other hand, cacao powder is made from fermented beans that have not been roasted. The beans are processed at low temperatures and then milled into a powder. The result, is a powder that’s bitter in taste and higher in nutritional content. It is often packaged as vegan as it has been minimally processed with no additives.

If you enjoy these Black Bean Brownie Donuts you’ll love my other recipes:

Baked Vegan Donuts

Baked Vegan Apple Fritters

Raw Salted Caramel Brownie Bites

Brownie Batter Overnight Oats

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