Vegan Fudgy Low-Fat Brownies | Gluten-Free & Date-Sweetened (2024)

November 3, 2016 · Natalie 92 Comments

Deliciously fudgy and frosted, these vegan low-fat brownies are easy healthy decadence in just 5 ingredients! Gluten-free, oil-free, date-sweetened.

Of the entire blog post-creation process, the writing is always the hardest for me. Recipe ideascome easy andfrom everywhere. Taking the photos is my favorite part, always challenging and always changing. Editing photos is a love-hate relationship–soexciting when they turn out well,or like I am waging a warwith Lightroom when they don’t. And video editing is often the calm break I need fromtime in the kitchen or behind the camera, especially withmusic and snacks involved. But the writing.

Lately this trend has been occurring where I go to bed, start thinking about an upcoming post, and it starts writing itself in my head whileI am trying to go to sleep. Now of course I can’t pass up the late night creative juices, so I have to jot this stuffdown. I don’t know what it is, but alliterations flow easily and my sarcasm game is strong at 1:17am. Like this post–yep written in the wee hours of the just-past-midnight morning. It’s also always interesting to wake up the next morning, reread my notes, and try to decipher what mysleepyfingers were attemptingto type.

But when I’m writing posts in the daytime (like right now) it doesn’t always flow so easily. That’s what makes it tricky. I can’t just turn it on or off, it has to flow. Like my writing brain is it’s own separate (and very finicky) entity or something.

Of course I could always just tell you about how delicious these brownies are. Or how theyare made with only 5 ingredients. I could babble on about how much I love blender recipes anddate-sweetened recipes andthe low-fat but so fudgy texture sweet potato brings to brownies. Or about how much I think frosted brownies knock the socks off of unfrosted ones because anything more closely resembling cake is better than anything less closely resembling cake.

But those things have all either been said or go without saying (or are just plain confusing). Plus nothing rhymes. There are no alliterations. And if you’ve been a reader here for a while you know that those two things are an important part of just about every post on FF.

So now I’ve just spent three hundred something words writing about how challengingwriting is for me. It’s like those freaky moments where you dream in a dream. Or see a mirror in a mirror in a mirror. But anyways, it’s something I felt like sharing with you.

I’ll move on to the brownies now…

These are not just any brownies. They are fudgy, fat-free, frosted, flippin’ fantastic brownies!Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. Had to makeup for the lack of alliterations in the first half of the post. But really they are all of those things.

First I have to give a shoutout to Arman who gotme onto this super simple brownie kick in the first place.It was these flourless sweet potato browniesthat setmy recipe imagination wheels into motionon a date-sweetened version of a sweet potato brownie.

Dates andsweet potatotogether in one brownie meansthe fudgy-ness level is off the charts! Plus I kept the dry ingredients to a minimum to be sure not to mess up that ultrarich texture. And there is absolutelyno need for oil or sugar in theselow-fat brownies.

The frosting I posted yesterday was designed especiallyforlayering on top of these brownies, and it really does take them from yum to YUM! If you want to take them from YUM to YUM,then I highly suggested refrigeratingthem overnight. Something about the chocolatey chill makes them taste even fudgierI think!

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