Black Bean Brownies: The Verdict

Last night I posted about the Black Bean Brownies I was baking, so here's my review:

So the brownies took much longer to bake thoroughly than the directions I had said, just an FYI.

They are a total WIN! Yay! Everyone in the house loves them. They are very rick dark chocolate.

I would also add that in the future, I would definitely blend it all in the Vita-Mix again, to ensure the batter is that smooth. I don't think they'd have been as enjoyable to the kids especially had it not been as smooth.

For my between boy, he wants a brownie ice cream cake for his birthday in December, and he wants to use this recipe. I think it's going to be phenomenal. I would like to make my own ice cream for it, too.

I need to break out the ice cream maker. I scored a new in the box nice one from Freecycle a long time ago, and still haven't used it.
I would like to experiment with coconut milk ice cream & frozen yogurt, too. Oh yes, right as fall is hitting, right?

Black Bean Brownies on the way...

I have finally done it. I'm making the black bean brownie recipe from Baking With Agave Nectar by Ania Catalano. 101 Cookbooks did a blog post with the recipe a while back, and I have wanted to.

I had to change up a few things:
I didn't have unsalted butter. I instead used 1/2 c Smart Balance, and 1/4 c cold coffee.
I only had 1/2 c walnuts, and my eldest (who made these with me) doesn't actually like pieces of nuts in his brownies, so I just added the half cup in with the black beans into the Vita-Mix.

I was having trouble getting the bean/walnut mixture to mix, I imagine it may work better in an actual food processor. But what I did when it was time to mix the chocolate, bean mix, & eggs, was to put it all into the Vita-Mix & blend it some more.
The resulting batter was smooooooth.

My eldest had a fantastic time making swirls into the batter. >_>