rockier road vegan brownies (no added sugar)

Sometimes getting a recipe just right takes awhile. Sometimes the results are only good for the garbage (yeah, that bad). And sometimes they are an unexpected blessing. This last result is exactly what happened here.

I can’t remember exactly what I was going for when I first mixed this rockier road vegan brownies recipe up. I think it might have been chocolate cookies. Anyway, whatever it was, it just didn’t happen.

Except the results were exactly what I was going for in an chocolately fudgey vegan brownie recipe. Whooop, whooop! Then inspired by another recipe I saw in a vegan cookbook, I tossed on some chopped almonds and cacao nibs. Voila! Rockier road vegan brownies.

Why rockier road?

Because in the name of all things no-added-sugar, I left out the marshmallows. See? The road just got rockier. I honestly don’t think you’ll miss that pop of sugar, though, and I’ve shared this with enough people to know you won’t hear any complaining.

The recipe for these rockier road vegan brownies is a VIP recipe which you can snag when you sign up for my newsletter here (or click the image below). I’m also including the photos for how I packaged these to give as a gift along with gift tag labels.

Let’s spread a little no-added-sugar plant-based food joy, shall we?