The Best Gluten-Free Brownies
Fudgy and delicious, these are the best gluten-free brownies! They’re actually the best brownies ever, gluten-free or not! I’m so excited to share the recipe with you and hope you love them as much as I do! This is an older post that got a little photo refresh.. and we got to eat a ton of brownies.
The Best Gluten-Free Brownies
Gluten-Free Brownie Recipe
PrintBest Gluten-Free Brownies
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup brown rice flour mix (see below) OR 1/6 tapioca flour + 1/6 potato starch + 1/3 brown rice flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- 4 oz semisweet chocolate
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (or vegan butter)
- 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs (can also use flax eggs)
- 3/4 cup chopped toasted walnuts (optional)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 325. Position rack in lower-middle of oven.
- Line a 8 in square baking pan with foil and grease with cooking spray.
- Combine flour, salt, baking powder and xanthan gum in a small bowl and set aside.
- Melt chocolate and butter in a double boiler (or melt in the microwave for about 45 seconds, stirring every 15 seconds).
- Whisk in sugar, vanilla and eggs, one at a time. Continue to whisk until mixture is smooth and glossy.
- Add flour mixture and whisk until incorporated.
- Stir in nuts (if you wish to add them).
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with wet crumbs.
- Cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes.
- Remove brownies from pan by lifting up foil and cool completely on rack.
- Cut into squares or triangles.
The quality of the chocolate makes the difference, so I picked these adorable Tcho baking critters. They’re almost too cute to melt!
Check out this cute little hedgehog:
After melting the chocolate in the microwave (for about 45 seconds, stirring every 15 seconds), I whisked in the sugar, butter, egg and vanilla until thoroughly combined and shiny.
Then I added the flour mix. I like to keep a gluten-free flour mix on hand (recipe below), but you could also wing it on the spot. I filled a 1/3 measuring cup halfway with potato starch and halfway with tapioca flour, then filled another 1/3 measuring cup with with brown rice flour.
Whisked it all together
Then poured the batter into a greased baking dish.
There’s a trick you can try that will save you cleanup and help you cut your brownies better: Line the baking dish with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray. When they’re done and have cooled for a bit, you pull the whole thing out – aluminum foil and all – let it cool, then cut it up.
Either way, you’ll have delicious, fudgy gluten-free brownies.
These gluten-free brownies are especially delicious with a scoop of coconut milk ice cream on top. Your family might just go so nuts over these that there will be very little left to enjoy the next day.
Gluten-Free Brown Rice Flour Mix
PrintGluten-Free Brown Rice Flour Mix
Ingredients
- 2 C Brown rice flour
- 2/3 C Potato Starch (not flour)
- 1/3 C Tapioca Flour (also known as starch)
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together and store in an airtight container to use as needed.
Looking for a flourless brownie? Here’s a sweet potato brownie recipe to try!
If you’d like to satisfy your brownie craving in a less treat-like fashion, try these brownie batter protein bites.
xoxo
Gina
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I need a brownie because 10 hour work days are lame-o.
Um, it’s kinda that time of the month…ya know. I would love a brownie 🙂
Why I need brownies in three letters: PMS. 🙁
I need some brownies… I want some proof that a gluten-free brownie can taste as good as the “real thing!”
Yummm!! I could use a brownie because I lost my voice and sound manly. :/
I need a brownie because it’s cold and rainy here and I’d love a pick me up!
I’m alive, healthy, and grateful! A brownie would be a lovely compliment to those things 🙂
I just did a crazy interval workout and deserve a brownie 🙂
I could go for a brownie right now because 1. I love chocolate 2. I have major bruises and blisters from crew and I need more booboo’s healed somehow! And 3. I’m really tired and lazy to get up and bake myself anything (anyways whenever I bake it always doesn’t turn out as well as planned..)! Also i’m vegan, gluten-free and sugar free beeteedubbs 🙂
ooohhh… i could use a brownie today because it is 38 degrees and overcast here in chicago and does not feel one bit like spring!! i could use a little ray of sunshine in the form of a fitnessista brownie!!
I’ve got a Calculus final next Monday.. I could definitely use a brownie. 😉
Am down with fever and craving some choco brownies right now!
i never win these things. 😉 that’s why i need a brownie. it’ll give me hope. it really will.
I need a brownie becuase I am currently potty training my 2 1/2 year old son! His bottom does look cute in underpants but it is so exhausting. Ugh!
Today, I found out that in order to make my new iPod nano function (and therefore let me stay at the gym long enough for a good sweat sesh–I think everyone I encounter will appreciate that because my mood has been bonkers and I can only do cardio with muzzzaaakkk) I need to buy an entire new processing system for my MacBook to the tune of $150. This broke college student needs some brownies STAT!
I’m stealing the answer from the girl above me, because it’s so true. Pms! What’s even worse, this is my first case of it in 2 years because I had my daughter and then nursed her up till last month. I don’t remember it being this bad, haha.
I could use a brownie right this very second because i have 6 finals next week all in 4 days ! Brownies would help the current stress eating i’m doing 🙂
I need a brownie because… well… I have to live with a boy. 😉
I’m writing part of my dissertation and could really use a brownie break! Thanks for putting up with us during the TA method debate 🙂
Oh my gosh, I’ve been cravinggg brownies! I could use one because I’ve been swamped at work (still there now!) and they’re the ultimate comfort food!
I need a brownie, because I spent all day with crazy parents, crazy kids, a kid who slapped my face, and took bites out of a puzzle I brought him, and drove 4 hours between getting there, getting between them, and coming home… or a drink might do too. at least it was sunny!
I need a brownie because student teaching high school choir is wearing me out…and my mentor teacher accidentally dumped water on the piano two different times! Lol 🙂
I need a brownie because it’s Wednesday and having one brownie will get me through the rest of the week!
I could use a *vegan* brownie today because I ravaged through an excruciating 3-hour biochemistry lab! I need some motivation to make it through finals!
I really needed a brownie on Monday. It was my b-day and I realized that I had actually qualified for Boston marathon. I read the age brackets wrong and it took my b-day to figure it out. Of course it was WAY too late as the race was Monday as well! Considering it has been my primary goal for the past 2 years, it was a pretty stupid thing to mess up. Doh!
i love that these are gf as i have celiac – always looking for new recipes for baked goods to go along with my own 😉 i could totally use a batch of brownies. i have been taking care of my sister’s three children all week and am looking forward to some wine and treats friday night 😀
Why I could use a brownie? More like why COULDN’T I use a brownie!
I could definately use a brownie because I’m coming to the end of the semester and getting ready to deal with the stress of finals, plus, like quite a few other girls have mentioned, it’s that time of the month 😉 Chocolate fixes everything!
I could really use a brownie because I would actually give them to my kids to try! 🙂 I have been working on gf recipes for months and have yet to find one I can actually stand!!! I try to make the kids’ diets gf for health issues! 🙂
I need a brownie to celebrate finally getting an offer on my house (it’s been on the market for OVER a year)!!!!!!
I need some brownies to make me feel better while I’m studying toxicology 🙂
Those sound delicious. I could use a brownie today because over the weekend I was sick and I lost my voice. I’m a teacher and my students WOULD NOT listen to me today because I couldn’t speak loud enough for them to hear me. It was absolutely frustrating.
Why I can use a brownie.. by Kyra Williams.
In January I decided to sign up to compete in my very first fitness competition, Ms. Bikini, April 30th at Mohegan Sun. Since February I have not had one sip of alcohol, no desserts, no junk.. very few cheats.. and they have really only come in the form of coconut milk ice cream & almond butter. I’m 10 days out and this morning, my 7am, post workout meal, consisted of 3.5 ounces of mahi (that I had to cook last night) and 12 spears of previously frozen asparagus. Yes, it was as awful as it sounds.
Now that I am 10 days out I am in it to win it, but I want to have some dang treats!!
One problem, after having had no dairy in the last few weeks, I’m scared to eat treats again 🙁
The end.
Because I just found out I won’t be able to see my family on easter 🙁
While I’m moving across the country in two months to a place where I’ll know noone, will need a car for the first time in my life, and possibly leaving my fabulous no-distance relationship and entering a long distance relationship…
I could really use some brownie because I love me some chocolate, and what a better way to fuel for bikini season prep than some gf goodness?!
Actually, I NEED Jessica (military wife above) to get those brownies– her story inspired me to keep my chin up and booty in gear more than any sweet treat (even in all their delicious glory!)!!
Jessica, girl, you rock.
I could use a brownie right about now because I’m stuck at school, cooped up in my dorm studying for finals. I don’t get to see my family, friend or boyfriend for another week…and it’s already been three weeks without them!
Gina, the recipe looks wonderful.
I need a brownie b/c someone stole my 6 week old iphone out of my purse and I just paid to replace it. 🙁
It was a LONG day at work. I just got promoted last week(!!) but am now juggling 2 jobs (my old one and new one) until they hire someone new..
I could use a brownie today because I just finished my 3rd of three term papers due this week!
I could use a brownie today. My 14 year old son is on a mission trip in Guatamala (this is Spring Break week) and last night a 14 year old girl that lives around the corner from us was killed in an accident. She was with a group of 4 other teens last night and the 18 year old driver swerved to avoid hitting a deer. All the teens did NOT have their seatbelts on. It is challenging to keep teens on the right path in todays world and my heart goes out to the family. I cannot wait to hug my son on Friday when he comes home.
I definitely need a brownie because I’m a physical therapy student and had my first final and practical this week, with 4 more written finals and 2 practicals next week! Maybe chocolate would bring me some extra motivation and stress relief 🙂
because you can never have enough chocolate!
I need a brownie because the hubs just went back to Afghanistan after two glorious weeks at home, school is kicking my bootay, and I have a handsome new baby nephew (I would call that one a celebratory brownie!).
I need your lovely brownies! If I turn on the oven and make these myself in 90F weather and a broken a/c, I will likely suffocate from the heat. Can’t wait till summer rolls around…
I need a brownie because I have been looking for a job for 18 months after getting laid off and still no luck!
I could use a brownie because it’s only Wednesday 🙁
I am a Drug & Alcohol counselor in inner-city Baltimore, and I could use a brownie because I just found out that one of my coworkers is leaving in 3 weeks. This means more work and a bigger caseload for the rest of us! If you sent me brownies, I’d take them in to the office!!!
I could use a brownie today because Jason lost his job 2 weeks ago and HE could really use a brownie. So I want it so that I can give it to him.
I didn’t really have a bad day but I can ALwaYS use a brownie. I think we should start rewarding ourselves with brownies for good days and not just leave them for the bad. 🙂
I need a brownie because I am really really hard on myself and I have decided that I am going to STOP being so hard on myself and treat myself just like I would my BFF!