Chapter Twenty- Nine

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Roasted Cherry Brownies

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Looking for a fudgey, indulgent, crave-worthy brownie? Tart from seasonal cherries, creamy from cashew butter, these gluten, dairy, and refined sugar free brownies will be seriously life changing I promise.

In case you haven’t noticed already from a couple of my other recipes, I’m kind of obsessed with St. Dalfour jam. It’s the only jam I've seen on the market that's sweetened with only fruit and still tastes amazing. I use the black cherry jam in my melted chocolate- and coconut oil mixture to bring that same sweet/tartness to the base of this batter. Not only do I love the chunks and flavor in these brownies but contrasted with the red cherries I used, it gives lots of lovely cherry flavor!

Now onto roasting the cherries, I use maple sugar to get these babies sweet and oven ready. Your house will smell amazing by the way - thank me later. Chop up your cherries and sprinkle on top your maple sugar and throw it in the oven for about 15 minutes or so until the cherries have shrunk in size and soaked up that maple flavor. Maple sugar is important in this recipe, you can use coconut sugar but I like that sticky sweet flavor and granule shape to get those crispy tops. You want to make sure you get these nice and roasted so the excess water doesn't make the batter too cakey.

An important step you don't want to skip is whisking the eggs and coconut sugar together until it doubles in size and gets pale and fluffy. Not only does this help create that wonderful crinkly top but it also helps to give that fudge type texture!

The start of a great healthy brownie begins with the chocolate. I know there are a lot of great options on the market but Hu’s is by far my favorite. Dark or milk it's always made with the best ingredients and always refined sugar free despite being affiliated  (cookingchapters for 15% off), I can't imagine ever using anything else. I get that perfect, sweet, creamy texture from this chocolate that BRINGS that classic brownie flavor. Here I used Hu’s dark chocolate with cashew butter in the batter and sprinkled the milk cashew butter on top but choose dark and milk at your personal taste for this recipe!