Add to: Recipe Box | Grocery List | Meal PlannerRecipe submitted by beernuts, 11/19/05
Microwave BrowniesIngredients (use vegan versions): 1 banana, mashed
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
4 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
chocolate chips
Directions:Mix wet ingredients in a bowl...add dry ingredients.... mix everything together well and put in a small microwavable safe dish that's been greased up with cooking spray.
Sprinkle with chocolate chips and microwave on high for 4-5 minutes (depending on how gooey you like em). Great for late night studying Snacks. You could probably even add some instant coffee to them before you cook them. lol
Serves: 4-6?
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Wow, microwave vegan brownies. Thats an amazing concept. These I've got to try, Cant wait to go buy some chocolate chips. Is Olive oil really necessary? I'm thinking any oil would work, and olive oil has quite a strong taste...
Archived comment by: carnivalofbunnies
microwave kills all the nutrients.
Archived comment by: kaitebrown
I'm new at this vegan thing. But I understand that it means a diet with no eggs, no dairy, and no meat. This recipe contains chocolate chips...as I said, I'm new, is there a type of chocolate chips that don't contain dairy?
Archived comment by: lancelot
lancelot, you could always find dairy free chocolate chips at your local health food store. It should say right on the package.
Archived comment by: chicyuna
microwave kills all the nutrients... And we should be worried about this because there are a lot of nutrients in brownies to lose? lol Tropical Source chocolate chips are the only vegan brand I know of.
Archived comment by: pumpkin pie
firstly, what nutrients? Theyre brownies! Also, there has been evidence to suggest that using a microwave preserves some of the nutrients other conventional cooking methods destroy. And you can get dark chocolate chips that are vegan by default in most supermarkets. If not, just get a bar of dark chocolate, stick it into a bag, wrap the bag in a dishtowel, and bang it with a hammer until its in pieces and use that.
Archived comment by: carnivalofbunnies
Ghirardelli makes an awesome brand of chocolate chips, the one in the gold bag-- semi-sweet I think. they're a bit pricey, but they always wow the non-vegans.
Archived comment by: kT22A
Trader Joes has good vegan chocolate chips.
Archived comment by: nomes
Just made them and WOW! Amazing. They tasted less like brownies and more like that Heinz/cadbury tinned chocolate sponge cake with a hint of banana. If you cook them slighly less time, the bottom stays gooey, and you can flip it upside down and it makes a wonderful icing. Truly delicoius. I added white chocolate chips to mine, as well. A lot of places will sell vegan ones as yogurt drops or yogurt covered raisins but will actually not have any dairy or egg in the recipe.
Archived comment by: carnivalofbunnies
i just made a batch and had a little sample- it tastes great! i don't know if anyone else had this problem but my mixture was really dry and i had to add some chocolate soy milk (1/8 cup) to moisten it up a little.
Archived comment by: holycow
hehe these brownies were very good...let me tell you what i did.... i had no chocolate chips in the cupboard, so i thought hm...peanut butter could be just as good.... upon further inspection of the recipe and my resources, i decided to be a little bit more innovative and replace the flour with oats.... so i mixed everything up, replacing oats with flour, and adding a bit of vanilla soymilk (because we are out of vanilla too)....then i put everything in a container and plopped a dollop of peanut butter on top....then i put that in the microwave for about a min. and a half, waiting for the pb to soften up so i could spread it out more....after that i popped the thing back in the microwave for another 5 mins. or so.... which i think was a BIT too long because they came out slightly crispy, next time i will make them softer...even if they look a bit wet, don't worry, just let them sit for a sec and they dry out....also i forgot to grease my container, so they stuck and i ended up with lumps instead of squares, but they were perfectly tasty and i will definitely make them again!
Archived comment by: ilikestrawberries
Made these yesterday in a round tupperware, sans chocolate chips. The texture is perfectly brownie-like, but you can taste too much of the banana, which ruins the chocolate brownie effect. The flavor of the olive oil came through a bit too much, as well, so I think next time I'll use plain ol veggie oil and see how it goes. Maybe use peanut butter, too? Anyway, all in all, the recipe is pretty decent and the texture is perfect. The flavor just needs some tweaking.
Archived comment by: darkSun2
i thoughthese were really good for vegan brownies but they got reallly hard after about half an hour
Archived comment by: yourdeadlies
is there any way i could make these *not* in microwave? if the texture is really so perfect i definately want to try them but i don't like the microwave...
Archived comment by: havenolegs
These were fantastic! 10 minutes beginning to end, because I doubled the recipe.(11 minutes if you count the devouring time!) I also added (Wallys) Vegan Chocolate Frosting as I didn't have chocolate chips. Ovens are scarce in China, so this was a great find for us expats!
Archived comment by: triggerhippie
These were great!! I read some of the suggestions and alter the recipe a little bit. I substituted 1/3 of the flour for 1/3 of oats, used stevia instead of sugar and carob powder instead of cocoa, used less than 1/4 cup of olive oil and 1/2 banana instead of a whole. I also added Soy Slender vanilla milk to the end of the batter because it was dry!! I have to keep myself from eating the whole thing... They turned out gooey... just the way I like them. Thanks for the great recipe!!
Archived comment by: tmedwards
regarding chocolate chips-there are vegan BRANDS (like Tropical source) and chips that happen to be vegan. If you have allergies I would not suggest them (ones that happen to be vegan). Howe'ver, as previously mentioned there are the Ghirradelli chips. But there are more than one. There are the Semi Sweet and the Double Chocolate. Both contain no milk but may have come in contact with milk because they are in the same factory. Howe'ver, I eat these chips, they are delicious, and they cost less than Tropical Source. I can get mine for $2.69/bag as opposed to Tropical Source being $5.00/bag. Almost half price. Also, some store brands contain no milk. hersheys cocoa also has a recipe for substituting chocolate (some powder+ some oil= such and such ounces of chocolate). There are options. You don'thave to go broke buying chocolate chips for brownies.
Archived comment by: vegetasia
