This Mama Loves

Connecticut lifestyle blog featuring food, crafts, travel, entertainment, tech, family and more

Never Miss A Minute of The Fun!
Subscribe Now And Get All Our Posts
Direct To Your Inbox!

in dessert· Recipes

Chocolate Avocado Brownies Recipe

I love brownies. They love me too.  But really, who doesn’t love brownies? It’s a long, rocky road for us (and another brownie flavor I can’t seem to say no to) and it usually ends with the brownie being devoured and me…well, being me at the end of the day. But as we all know, traditional brownies don’t always have the healthiest ingredients.  Thankfully, there are ways to make them just as delicious with better for you ingredient options and my new favorite ingredient to add to my baked goods is none other than the avocado. I’m updating this chocolate avocado brownies post with PRETTY new photos in the fall of 2020 because I was in the mood for brownies and also because this post needed some new pictures of these delish treats. 

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 

Yes, the avocado.

Avocados can be used to substitute butter or oil in baking.  They often make the baked goods softer and chewier.  (I should be careful using them, because what if people start to think I’m really good at baking? Will they expect that I”ll be baking for them regularly? That’s a lot of pressure.  Better I keep this to myself. So we’ll just keep this between us, ok?)

When using an avocado in place of butter, use a 1:1 ratio.  For those of you who aren’t sure: that means if your recipe calls for 5 Tablespoons of butter, you’ll use 5 Tablespoons of avocado.  If you are using it in place of oil you may need a little bit more liquid because that avocado won’t be quite as thin as a liquid, but not much.

Avocados in baked goods add vitamins, polynutrients and minerals to your goodies. That means they make your baked goods better for you.  (Just a note: This does not mean you can eat an entire pan in a sitting.  That’s not ever a good idea, not ever).

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 

Avocado Brownies stacked on white plate

 

So now I’m going to share an EASY recipe for Fudgy Chocolate Avocado Brownies (and if you don’t want to make them from scratch, which I may not ever fully understand but won’t judge, go ahead and use the box mix with the avocado. It’ll bring them to an entirely new level).

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup avocado, mashed (1 avocado equaled 1/2 cup of mashed avocado for me)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2c all purpose flour
  • 1/3 c unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

chocolate avocado brownies ingredients

Instructions

Oven to 350

Beat together avocado and sugar in mixing bowl.

ingredient prep for avocado brownies

Add in remaining ingredients and mix well.

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 

Spread into greased and floured 8×8 baking dish- this is our favorite cooking spray to use! 

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 

Bake for 20-25 minutes

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 

Do NOT cut until all the way cool!

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 

Brownies will be much chewier if you wait until they cool.

 

Yield: 9

Chocolate Avocado Brownies Recipe

Fudgy Avocado Brownies 
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup avocado, mashed (1 avocado equaled 1/2 cup of mashed avocado for me)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 c all purpose flour
  • 1/3 c unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Instructions

  1. Oven to 350
  2. Beat together avocado and sugar in mixing bowl.
  3. Add in remaining ingredients and mix well.
  4. Spread into greased and floured 8x8 baking dish- this is our favorite cooking spray to use! 
  5. Bake for 20-25 minutes

Notes

Do NOT cut until all the way cool!

Brownies will be much chewier if you wait until they cool.

Recommended Products

As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Category: dessert

the original photo:

chocolate avocado brownies

About Brett

I'm a 40 something lifestyle blogger living in Connecticut with my husband and our 3 kids, plus our two rescue pups. We love to hike, travel, play games, watch movies, and just be outside together! Having 3 active kids makes for a hectic schedule and I try to share content, recipes and other things that can help to make today's busy family life simpler, easier, or just plain more fun!

I started working full time at a local middle school in fall 2021 and some of my students are insistent that I am mean.

Comments

  2. W. Lion says

    Agree with never putting these two together! Has anyone tried the recipe ? I’m almost afraid to try!! Maybe i’ll test it out on my kids!!!!

  5. Rebecca Parsons says

    I am thinking its weird but just weird enough for me to try. Who would have thought to put avocados and chocolate together

  9. Michelle McCulloch says

    I love chocolate and avocado’s and never thought of mixing the two..am definitely going to have to try this

  10. Eileen Richter says

    We love chocolate and we do love avocado’s but never would a thunk of this! I want to try it JUST to see what the family would say before knowing it was this recipe! I adore avocados’ . We split them in half and take out the pit, then we each just eat em’ outta the shell, with a spoon with just a sprinkle of sea salt. MMmmm……!

  12. Nathalie Talons says

    Gosh,I love brownies! I don’t indulge in them so often though.I love avocados too! I will try it next time with the box recipe,no pressure there!

  13. kath g says

    i LOVE avocados and they are so good for you so i just bought a bunch on sale and was thinking i’d have to make A LOT of guacamole before they went bad….SO glad i found this recipe, i’m totally making these tomorrow. thanks.

  14. lovesail says

    This recipe looks delicious and would be a good idea for a galley recipe when butter is in short supply. Thank you for posting this. 🙂

  15. Sylvia Ortiz says

    What an interesting recipe that sounds and looks absolutely delicious. I am excited to try out this recipe for my family to enjoy. Thanks for the share!

  18. Angela says

    I must admit that I’ve never heard of an avocado brownie, but it’s two things that I love. So it has to be fabulous!

  23. Maria says

    What?? OMG 2 of my favorite ingredients!! I’ll try not to eat the entire pan but it will be hard…lol

  25. Kari says

    I would’ve never even thought about using avocados for baking, very interesting. I will have to try that sometime.

  26. Melanie S. says

    I’ve never heard of this being done before, but I’m in love with the idea. I give my kids avocados regularly, and maybe I’ll start eating them too now that I can put them in a brownie 🙂

  27. Crissy says

    Avocado. Brownies. Avocado Brownies? I mean, sounds good to me! 🙂 Avocado is the one thing I crave even when I’m not pregnant. Can’t explain it, but I crave it like crazy!

  32. lisa says

    This recipe frightens me. I tasted an avocado once and it tasted chalky. I guess the chocolate covers it up?

  33. veronica lee says

    I didn’t know that avocados can be used to substitute butter or oil in baking either! This could change my life! I love, love, love the taste of avocado and it’s definitely a healthier alternative. Thanks!

  34. Vanessa Mabel Camba says

    I didn’t know that avocados can be used to substitute butter or oil in baking. Thanks for sharing!

  35. Casey says

    What have you just done to my willpower? I am craving one of your brownies now. Will an avocado with cocoa powder sprinkled on it suffice? Probably not…

    Thanks for sharing and being part of the Avocados From Mexico family!

    • Brett says

      LOL you can try it Casey, but I’m not 100% sure it would do the trick. They are better than regular brownies!! For your heart. I can’t promise your waistline…

Lets Connect

By Month

By Category

Amazon Associates

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon. com and affiliated sites.

[instagram-feed id=”28999805″]

Skip to Recipe