These pumpkin brownies taste very well and are also quite healthy if you don’t overdo it. Except for a small amount of sugar in the dark chocolate there is no added sugar in this recipe. If you want to make this recipe completely added sugar free you can use 100% chocolate. The pumpkin and pear are very sweet as well.
Extra supplies needed: a brownie tray. If you don’t have one you can use an oven dish (in a suitable form) or a cake tin.
– 400g pumpkin after peeling and cutting, dices of around 2 by 2 cm
– 100g spelt flour
– 1 peeled pear into cubes
– 75g dark chocolate (I used 85%)
– 50g chopped walnuts
– 1 teaspoon cookie spices (cinnamon, cilantro, anise, ginger, cloves and cardamom)
Cook the pumpkin parts for 15 minutes. Keep some of the cooking moisture.
Preheat the oven on 200°C or 390°F. If you have a powerful oven a lower temperature could be suited as well. Put a baking sheet in a brownie shape.
Melt 50 grams of the chocolate au-bain marie. Add a teaspoon of the cooking moisture from the pumpkin to the chocolate. This way you get the chocolate easier out of the bowl and it mixes better with the pumpkin and the pear. Chop the rest of the chocolate into chips.
Mash the pumpkin together with the pear. Add the spelt flour and then the melted chocolate. Mix together. You can add more of the cooking moisture if you need your batter to become more moist. If you need it more dry you can add more flour. Mix the chocolate chips and half of the chopped walnuts into the batter.
Put the batter into the brownie shape. My shape is 28*18. If yours is another size that is somehow similar that does not matter (a little more thick or thin brownies) except you may have to adjust the baking time and temperature. Of course you can adjust the amounts of the ingredients to your brownie shape. Put the rest of the chopped walnuts on top of the brownies. Bake the brownies for around 40 minutes. Watch if this is also the case for your oven.
The 9th of March is the date I added this recipe from my Instagram. I made these at the start of February with a pumpkin from January.
