Brownies make a quick and easy dessert even for those who seek gluten free sweets: making gluten free chocolate brownies does not entail any radical variations from the original recipe, which in any case does not contain a lot of flour and can be made without the use of raising agents.
To prepare chocolate brownies without gluten all you need are a few simple cooking tips: instead of 00-type flour, you can use rice or corn flour, the taste and texture of this chocolaty sweet will not be any different; as a third option, it is possible to eliminate flour and use potato starch instead.
Here’s how to prepare homemade gluten free chocolate brownies for celiac disease sufferers:
Take the dark chocolate, break it into pieces and melt it in a saucepan with butter or margarine
Whisk the eggs with the sugar and add them to the mixture with a pinch of salt
Now for the rice/corn or potato flour: add one of the three, together with the cocoa powder. It is necessary to pass them through a sieve and fold them into the mixture from top to bottom
Continue to mix as you add the honey and hazelnuts
Pour the mixture into a rectangular cake tin, preferably one with low sides, and smooth the surface with a spatula
Pop into the oven at 180°C and bake for approximately 30 minutes