Almond Butter Brownies

[breeze]

Also, almond butter is simple to make, if you can find almonds inexpensively. Basically just toss them In the food processor and blend for about 12-15 min. It will be dry at first, but after stopping to scrape down the sides with a spatula a few times, it will turn into nut butter. I like to toast the almonds in the oven first, to add a bit more flavor, but that's not necessary.

[Tri Girl]

I'm glad you bumped this! I'm getting ready to hike the Grand Canyon (yet again), and these will be a great alternative to bars- and I can make them vegan, too.
Thanks for the bump up. Don't know how I missed it the first time around.


I just made the batter with more pumpkin and a little less almond butter. I used 1T applesauce and 1t flax seed in place of the egg and added about a T of cocoa powder. They are cooking now, but the batter was yummy!!! Can't wait to try them.

My next batch (already planning the next), I will make with half the honey, a little less almond butter and I will add walnuts, almond slivers, raisins, dates, apricots and dried apples to boost up the nutrition factor for hiking. I may even add some oats in there. I'll probably not add the cocoa to the mix for the hiking batch (I don't do well with sweets when hiking for hours on end).
Thanks again for sharing this. The possibilities are endless!!

[PamNY]

I'm glad you bumped this! I'm getting ready to hike the Grand Canyon (yet again), and these will be a great alternative to bars- and I can make them vegan, too.
Thanks for the bump up. Don't know how I missed it the first time around.


I just made the batter with more pumpkin and a little less almond butter. I used 1T applesauce and 1t flax seed in place of the egg and added about a T of cocoa powder. They are cooking now, but the batter was yummy!!! Can't wait to try them.

My next batch (already planning the next), I will make with half the honey, a little less almond butter and I will add walnuts, almond slivers, raisins, dates, apricots and dried apples to boost up the nutrition factor for hiking. I may even add some oats in there. I'll probably not add the cocoa to the mix for the hiking batch (I don't do well with sweets when hiking for hours on end).
Thanks again for sharing this. The possibilities are endless!!

Flax seeds are a great idea. I'd love to know how your vegan alternatives turn out.

[Tri Girl]

They turned out VERY brownie-like (wtih the cocoa powder, they even looked and tasted more like brownies). The vegan subs worked wonderfully. Oh, I didn't use honey- I used agave syrup instead. It tastes just the same.

For energy bars, they were way too soft, tho. I'm going to play with the recipe to see if I can't get them to be more solid and bar-like. If I can't get the recipe right, I'll just buy some Lara Bars to take to the Grand Canyon next week.

[PamNY]

Great -- I will try the vegan substitutes sometime. These are a bit soft for travel -- but yummy!

[smilingcat]

just came across this thread.

The first post has a link and when I clicked on it, it came back as an "attack page". It's a page that will copy your personal information, passwords and such. Other times, they will try to leave malicious piece of code on your computer.

So please be careful. It may be a false alarm but one can never be too safe.

------------------

Will have to print out the recipe and try it out. Looks very interesting and very promising. Wondering about the texture.

[kacie tri-ing]

I was just trying to "re-find" the recipe, and found the same thing about the link. It wasn't bad when I first posted it! Sorry!

Ok--off to try the vegan substitute!