Homemade Eggless Chocolate Brownies
on Oct 14, 2015, Updated Oct 12, 2021
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These Homemade Eggless Chocolate Brownies are here to make vegetarian brownie lovers happy and to make those dessert parties more inclusive! They are super easy to pull together, are cakey and fudgy!
I have a confession to make. I have never got a brownie recipe right. Till now. So if you don’t trust me with this one I understand. But before you go away, just take a look at these fudgy, cakey, chocolatey homemade eggless brownies and tell me you can walk away from this deliciousness. I thought so. Since I have never been able to get brownies right, it’s all the more reason for you to know that the one that I actually post here will be fool proof!
The other day, Karan who is my boisterous, close friend asked me some technical questions about brownies. Something about making the cakey ones fudgy or vice versa. It’s real embarrassing for a food blogger to admit that they don’t know how to bake the simplest baked item in this world. I almost hid my face, but thankfully we were whatsapping. What can I do if those brownies are one disaster after another, and I had no hope with this batch too.
How to make Eggless Chocolate Brownies
Icing on the cake, I was trying to master an eggless version. Ugh. I’m not too proud of myself guys, but it’s that time of the year. My Indian friends here would understand. So while all things animal produce are not to be touched, I decided I couldn’t make that stop me. And here we are. Some research, some testing and I think I’m happy. Because these were extra chocolatey, cakey and slightly fudgy too. That’s the combination I can’t stop stuffing my face with. Umm midway through that sentence I had to get up and break off a bite. Or two.
Baaaaydaaawaaaaaaay I have more exciting news to share, apart from these amazing brownies. My new look — of course! What do you guys think? It was a moment of insanity and a case of massive hair fall that led to this desperate attempt at looking cool, but I think I’ve pulled that off nicely enough, don’t you? Denver absolutely adores it and can’t get enough of running his hand through my non-existent hair, plus zeeerrrooo maintenance. Considering how my haircare routine stops at shampooing, I’m thrilled with this! My stylist has reached best friend status in my life now, and you can’t borrow him because he’s a cutie and was totally game about listening to me crib about my hair for half an hour! I think I should make a batch of brownies for him. How did I not think of that earlier?
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Watch Eggless Chocolate Brownies Recipe Video
Homemade Eggless Chocolate Brownies
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup All Purpose Flour, (Maida), 90 gms
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/3 cup Cocoa Powder, 27 gms
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Chocolate, chopped, 170 gms
- 1/2 cup Butter, 113 gms
- 3/4 cup Greek Yogurt, 180 gms
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 3/4 Cup Sugar, 150 gms
- 1/4 cup Walnuts, 20 gms
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F
- Line an 8X8 inch baking dish with parchment paper or aluminium foil, and brush all sides with butter.
- Sift flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder in a bowl and set aside.
- In another bowl, place chocolate and butter and microwave in 30 second intervals till the butter melt. Mix well and add yogurt, vanilla extract and sugar. Whisk well for 1-2 minutes.
- Add the liquid mixture to the flour mixture and mix till combined. The mixture will be on the thicker side. Fold in the walnuts, or you can sprinkle them on top.
- Pour into the prepared baking pan and bake for 40 minutes. Start checking if the brownies are cooked by inserting a fork or toothpick in the center at the 35 minute mark.
- Once baked, cool the brownies in the pan completely before inverting them onto a metal rack. Cut into slices and serve.
Video
Notes
- Do not use curd in place of greek yogurt. Greek yogurt is thicker than homemade curd and will give a different consistency. If using homemade curd, double strain it using a muslin cloth.
- This recipe requires 40 minutes at 180C in my oven. This time may vary depending on your oven and its capacity. Start checking if the brownies are cooked by inserting a fork or toothpick in the centre at the 35 minute mark. If the toothpick comes out clean, or with very few crumbs on it, it is baked.
- You can add walnuts, almonds, pecans, peeled peanuts, etc., as a topping or combined with the batter. You can also add chocolate chunks, caramel candies, or even Oreo chunks.
More like rich chocolate cake than brownies but moist and incredibly delicious nonetheless
i am like the little baker in my family i make buttermilk brownies and they are so good
These were pretty darn good! I did have to make a couple of substitutions based on what I had on hand. I used vanilla Greek yogurt and vanilla creamer instead of milk. Since both these were vanilla, I nixed the vanilla extract. Next time I will probably increase the amount of cocoa powder; it just needed more chocolatey-ness (is that a word?). But otherwise, I was impressed this actually worked and tasted so good!
More chocolatey-ness is definitely a word in my dictionary! So glad you liked it Kathleen
Hi Richa! Should I put regular sugar, powdered sugar or brown sugar? And can I try olive oil, regular oil or should I put butter only?
Hey Ketaki, I used regular, granulated sugar in this recipe. I’ve never tried it with oil so I’m not sure how it’d change things but you can try it – you might have to cook the brownies slightly longer. I hope this helps
Hi Richa!
Have you ever been able to get a shiny flaky top on these brownies? If I’m not mistaken, eggs play a huge part for that. So I was just wondering if you knew a work-around to that for the eggless version?
I actually have a recipe that I’ve been testing for that shiny, flaky top but I haven’t got it right yet. A few more tries and I should be able to upload that recipe here.
Brilliant, can’t wait 🙂 also congrats on your little bundle of joy on the way! 😀
Thanks 🙂
Hi, i try it today its taste good but it’s become too dry they not bind properly.can you tell me what I did wrong?
Hey Paul, did you refrigerate them before slicing? Brownie needs to be cooled well to avoid them getting crumbly / dry.
A late night brownie craving and and a lack of eggs in my fridge brought me here, i just so happened to have a few cups of red hill farms vanilla goatmilk yogurt in my fridge (regular yogurt dosent agree with me) and they just so happend to be 3/4 cup in serving size! So i made this recipe. My house smells so good right now😊 i mixed ghirardelli 60% chips into the brownie itself and topped it with Heath bar bits.
Loooove ghirardelli! Glad this took care of those midnight cravings!
BEST Brownie i have made so far..
Yaaaay Stuti! Thanks for leaving your feedback here
can’t wait to try
Hey, how long can they survive outside the fridge?
Haha they never survive for more than a few hours at our place, but they should keep well for 2-3 days in an airtight container.
I tried this recipe today and it was amazing. I didn’t have yogurt but I melted some chocolate candies I found around my house added that with the butter before everything else so they could cool together and also eyeballed around 3/4 cups more milk and they came out of the oven a little after 40 minutes and were delicious
Thanks for trying this out Hannah and for sharing the substitutes you made. So glad you liked it!
Best brownie recipe I ever tried. I followed the instructions as they are and voila!!! Though I used a microvave( convection mode) and I only had a round glass bowl but the taste and consistency was flawless, better than the brownie of local baker. So I can say that its a failproof recipe that came out just perfect in the first go. Thank you for this one.
So glad you liked it Shama!
Hey,
How long did it take in the microvave?
Hi i was just wondering what yougurt you would use as im jot a baking type of person i bake every now and i would really love for my mother inlaw to have a brownie but she is pure vegeterian and doesnt eat anything at all with egg in it. And you wouldnt happen to have any other sweet eggless recipes would you?
Hey Luxmi, I just use regular homemade curd for this recipe.