Chocolate Banana Brownies

I am not a vegan, as you can probably tell from the recipes I have posted, and frankly, the thought of making vegan food scares me. I do, however, have a good friend who is a vegan, and has been encouraging for quite some time to make an all vegan recipe. I decided to get out of my comfort zone and try my hand at it. It wasn't as scary as I thought (thanks to internet tips) and I was able to come up with this recipe.

Ingredients:
2 bananas
1/4 cup mashed avocado
1/4 cup olive oil
3/4 cup flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup cocoa
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder

The first thing you are going to want to do is smoosh up your bananas (Or preheat the oven to 350, you could do that first instead). I just put my bananas in a bowl and smooshed them with a fork.

Blurry mashed bananas.

After the bananas are smooshed, the procedure is pretty easy, that's one of the great things about brownies, you can just dump and mix. Dump the bananas, and the rest of the ingredients into a bowl and mix until everything is well combined. Once the batter is mixed, place in a well greased pan, mine was 9x13.

Ready to bake.

Cook the brownies at 350 for about 30 min. If you stick a toothpick in them, it should come out clean.

Ready to eat!

I enjoyed my brownies with a glass of milk, which is pretty ironic considering these are vegan, oh well. Overall, I was happy with the results. Don't go into this thinking they are going to be the same consistency as a regular brownie, because they aren't. That doesn't mean they don't taste good, because they do, it's just going to be a different texture than you are likely used to.

I really should have taken more picture of this one, sometimes I get distracted, like by adorable babies who take pans out of cupboards so they can sit in them

Cute baby distraction.

I know the word vegan can be scary for people, that's why I didn't put it in the title. Just think of these as chocolate banana brownies instead of vegan brownies and maybe you will be a little more inclined to try them out.