These gluten free vegan blondies are made nut free and have a lovely chewy texture! Loaded with chocolate chips, these healthy blondies will become an after school staple!
A perfect, moist blondie that still manages to contain some nourishing ingredients!
While I had loads of blondie recipes on hand…I needed to work on an allergy free version! (My kids favorites are these gooey s’mores blondies, and these black bean brownies)
With no eggs, nuts, dairy, or gluten..these totally fit the bill!
We loved these, and I think YOU will too!
Optional gluten free blondies add in ideas:
While I generally stick to chocolate chips, there are few creative options you could play with! Here are few ideas:
- dried cranberries and white chocolate chips
- your favorite gluten free granola
- mini marshmallows
- bits of chopped caramel
Baking with sunflower seed butter, it turns green!
We use homemade sunflower seed butter almost exclusively since discovering my son has an allergy to peanuts, it is our favorite!
An added bonus is that nutritionally… it is a superior little seed to most nuts and seeds! It does however, turn green when exposed to akali (baking soda!)
I kind of like the green color and can have a lot of fun with it around St Patty’s!
The trick to avoid the green and not raise any eyebrows is to reduce any baking powder or soda by half.
Another option is to counteract the akali w/ some apple cider vinegar or lemon juice: acids!!
Can I use something besides sunflower seed butter?
Absolutely any nut or seed butter should do the trick…so use your favorite! We really like cashew butter too (not nut free)!
Gluten Free Vegan Blondies Recipe:
If you try these healthy blondies, be sure to come back and leave a comment and a review!
Gluten Free Vegan Blondies w/ Sunbutter
Ingredients
Wet:
- 3/4 cup sunflower seed butter or other nut or seed butter
- 1/4 cup coconut oil softened (could also use butter or palm shortening
- 3/4 cup palm sugar or other granulated sugar. I replace half the sugar with stevia equivalent
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 cup non-dairy milk I use coconut or almond usually
- 2 tablespoons chia meal or 1/4 cup flax meal
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Dry:
- 1/2 cup brown rice flour teff, oat would be good replacements
- 6 tablespoons coconut flour
- 1/4 cup tapioca flour or potato starch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and prepare an 8 x 8 pan with grease or parchment.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the wet ingredients together.
- With the mixer running, sprinkle in the dry ingredients. Alternately, mix the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and then combine with the wet.
- Spread the mixture in your prepared pan and bake in the oven for about 20-23 minutes until a knife inserted in the center comes out just clean.
Nutrition
They look delicious! I’m always up for a brownie/blondie. 😉 Thanks for sharing them at Savoring Saturdays, Tessa!
These look amazing! I can’t wait to try!
Hi Tessa,
I made these…as cookies. Love them. You are the baking queen my friend. Have a fab weekend.
Hugs,
–Amber
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Hello My Friend,
How are you my long lost blogging buddy!!!
Tessa, this is perhaps one of my favorite looking recipes of yours. I am going to make these on Thursday. They look just incredible. I will let you know how it goes. I can’t decide between teff, millet or sorghum. We shall see. As always, I have all the ingredients on hand. Can’t wait.
Happy New Year. Hope everything is great with you and your family.
Big Hugs,
–Am
holy moly i have to make these right away! i love the idea of using sunflower butter instead of peanut butter, too…i haven’t had any blondie-type of dessert since going paleo, so this needs a try for sure. i think i’ll use almond flour instead of brown rice and eggs instead of chia…i’ll let you know how it goes! thanks for the idea!
PLEASE do that Laura!! I too am doing mostly Paleo…the crux is my son can’t have any nuts, so many baked goods I make or adapt are out for him. I most recently made these specifically for him, but was thinking this would easy to convert to Paleo. I would love it is you could test it out for me! My hunch is, especially with the eggs it should be just great! I might even try all coconut flour/tapicoa or arrowroot with the chia eggs so my son CAN have them! Please report back!
Oh YUM!!!!
I haven’t done many sweets since going vegan-ish…mainly because I am NOT a baker and I don’t have options in my area but this sounds awesome 🙂
Hi Jennifer…these are worth it! A dive into baking will pay off, thanks for stopping by!
Tessa, I have to tell you that I’ve made these peanut butter blondies 3 or 4 times!!! (with peanut butter but I think I ought to try with sunflower butter one day soon). Everyone I feed them to (it’s been many people as I’ve taken to parties, potlucks, etc) LOVES them! I’ve even doubled the recipe on 2 of the occasions. Thanks for a new favorite 🙂
Thank you Heather for letting me know, validation is great!!
I did not know that sunflower butter turned green when exposed to baking soda. These wholesome and delicious Blondies look so good!
wowsers tessa, These look AmaZING. We like to use sunflower seed butter too. I haven’t had any green changes though, so thanks for the heads up! Thanks for sharing it with us at Whole Food Wednesdays.
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Tessa, your recipes always sound just scrumptious! Thank you for sharing ☺ My pile of ‘must try’s is building. I’m going to have a busy winter in my kitchen!
These look wonderful! I’m excited to try them. I bake gluten free, egg free and nut free for my little girl so these fit us perfectly! She is also allergic to coconut, do you have any suggestions on substituting the coconut flour? Thanks!!
Hi Melanie! I would go ahead and replace with about 1/2 cup favorite gf flour! Coconut flour is more absorbent, and had a slightly sweet flavor, so you may want to add a bit more sweetener (a tablespoon maybe). Coconut is one thing we CAN have….how ironic!
Yum! That’s all that needs to be said!
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I’d love your homemade sunflower butter recipe! wow!thank you for linking with Kids in the Kitchen! love having you!
Hi Tessa. Thanks again so much for linking up to Thriving on Thursdays. You wouldn’t know how to work out the calories for your recipes? I’m really enjoying them but need to watch my calories. Even if you knew of a good online calculator, that’d be great!
Anne xx
Hi Anne, have been counting calories too! I avoided it for a while just because 80% of what we eat, I have to input my own recipe to figure the calories, which is time consuming! When I do figure out one of my recipes, I add the info. In the interim, I have used spark people and now currently use “My Fitness Pal”, which is an app. Do you have a smart phone or iPad? If not, I am sure there are others, but spark people works well enough! It’s an online calorie tracker, free. I’ll try to get the info for you!
What does the potato/tapioca starch do in the recipe, and can you substitute anything?
It is a texture thing, it add lightness. Other starches can be subbed (corn, arrowroot). Or you could sub another flour, although you will change the texture a bit! Thank you for asking Michaela, and for stopping by!
my little girl has allergies to peanuts so I bought some sunbutter but she is not interested in it so I think I need to bake with it like this – these blondies sound delicious
It took my kids together into it too…the they did…and in things was tolerated much better! Smoothies was another way I would ge them to eat it initially…good luck, I know all about picky kids!
Oh yummmers, these look delish! I too love sunflower seed butter but Im a huge peanut butter lover. Will be trying this recipe!
Enjoy heather…we loved peanut butter too…it is just not worth the stress of my son coming into contact with it! Thank for commenting!
I am always amazed at all the delicious GF goodies people come up with. Those look amazing! Totally pinning this!
I host a foodie blog hop called Friday Food Fight. I would love for you to link up and share your GF peanut butter blondies. Hope to see you in the ring!
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okay…those look incredible!! i can’t wait for the recipe!! thanks for sharing!
Hi Tessa,
Do you have a recipe for this PB Blondie?
Thanks!
-Amy