Stone fruits are back in season and cherries happened to be the first one I baked with this weekend. These wholegrain cherry brownies were fab to start with! Stone fruit means summer to me. Loads and loads of them, in different shapes and varieties will remain there for a couple of months to come. And every year, I wait eagerly for their season to come.
I was supposed to bake a cake this weekend, as I had to travel back home. Kids would be waiting for me to come get bake them a cake. But sadly, due to a last hour call at work, I had to cancel my travel. Poor kids would have to wait for another week. So, I dropped the idea of baking a cherry cake and instead baked these lovely, hearty, wholesome, filling wholegrain dark chocolate brownies topped with loads of fresh cherries.
Now when I say, they are wholesome, I literally mean it. All because, they have the goodness of oats and wholewheat flour. I just completely skipped out the refined plain flour. I keep on trying baking with whole grains these days. Though it seems daunting initially, but it actually isn’t really.
Wholegrain work well with earthy flavors such as a cinnamon scented coffee cake or for that matter they go equally good with chocolate too {got this inspiration from a sweet blogger friend, Deeba Rajpal of PassionateAboutBaking, an amazing baker and fantastic food stylist, a true source of inspiration}. These are full of energy and good to be packed in lunchbox or for an afternoon snack.
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1/4 wholewheat flour
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 75 gm butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon finely ground coffee
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons low fat cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup fresh or frozen cherries, chopped
- Preheat the oven at 180 degree C. Line a 8 x 8 inches square pan with parchment paper and keep aside.
- In a bowl, whisk together both the flours, salt, baking powder and set aside.
- In another bowl, beat the butter with sugar and coffee, until light and fluffy. Beat the eggs one at a time. Add cream, vanilla extract and chocolate chips.
- Add the flour mixture and beat until a thick batter forms. Pour into the baking pan and top with cherries.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, until edges are slightly firm but center is soft. Let cool for 30 minutes, then cut into 12 equal squares.
Beautiful! I can only imagine how delicious these are!
thank you. they were really yummy 🙂
I adore cherries so am certain that I will love this one from you. Your pics are as always, stunning
thanks Deena 🙂 I too adore them.
I love new ideas for whole grain baking. These look lovely. Thanks!
These sound delicious, I use sour dried cherries which give a nice chewy tangy flavour but when you can find beautiful fresh cherries-these look worth a go!
I am sure, these would taste amazing with sour cherries too.
gorgeous pictures, and the brownies looks so good.
Wait a minute.. cherries have arrived in Delhi!!! No way!! and the brownies look good as always…
Yeah in loads here. And we are enjoying the every morsel of these. 🙂 Thanks.
I love cherries and brownies. Making them healthier is an even better idea. I’m going to try this for sure!
Thanks!
Healthy brownies . Cherries are in here too now. Love them
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My cherry tree will have flowers soon. They are sour cherry though, I never know what to do with those.This may be what I should do. Thanks for the beautiful pictures and recipe.
Love your work !
Love cherry and chocolate together. I need to find me a good cherry pitter!