Chocolate Black Bean Brownies With Delicious Sweet Potato Frosti

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 19 ounces black beans, drained and rinsed or 19 ounces about 1 1/2 cups of freshly cooked black beans
• 2 tablespoons almond butter (for nut allergies, sesame seed butter or sunflower seed butter also work well)
• 2 cups pitted dates, soaked for an hour and drained
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• chopped nuts (optional)
• 2/3 cup baked sweet potato (just bake a sweet potato in the oven or microwave until very soft, let it cool, cut it in half and s)
• 1/2 cup pitted dates, soaked for an hour and drained
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 4 tablespoons almond butter (for nut allergies, sesame seed butter or sunflower seed butter also work well)
• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 for the brownies: preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 throw all of the ingredients into a powerful food processor or blender. blend until it makes a smooth, thick batter.
• 3 add chopped nuts and pulse a few times, just so that they are distributed through the batter (optional).
• 4 spoon the batter evenly into an oiled baking pan.
• 5 bake for 25 minutes, and then let it cool completely before you add the frosting.
• 6 for the frosting: in a food processor or blender, blend milk, dates, almond butter and vanilla extract, until smooth.
• 7 add sweet potato and cocoa powder; blend until smooth and fluffy.
• 8 use a spatula to spread the chocolate frosting on to the cooled brownies.
• 9 ensure no one is looking, and proceed to lick the remainder of the frosting off of the spatula.
• 10 sprinkle the frosted brownies with chopped nuts (optional).