Hemp Seed Butter Brownies (Vegan, Sugar-Free, Gluten-Free)

These hemp seed butter brownies, made with wholesome and healthy ingredients, are easy to make, vegan, gluten-free, lectin-free, and sugar-free but so nutrient-rich and delicious. 

What is hemp seed butter?

A variety of cannabis plants, hemp has a long history of culinary use. The most common way hemp is used as food in the present day is hulled hemp seeds, also called hemp hearts. You find them in many grocery stores and they are a great addition to smoothies, porridges, and salads.

Hemp is considered a sustainable crop, so hemp seeds are increasingly being used in the food industry, as a bulk but also a nutritional addition to processed foods like sausages. 

Hemp seeds are a superfood with the ideal fatty acids omega-3 to omega-6 ratio (1:3). Hemp seeds contain all 20 amino acids, including the 9 essential amino acids that our body can’t produce. They are rich in vital micronutrients such as manganese, magnesium, zinc, copper, iron, and vitamin E. 

Small batch, quality hemp seed butter is obtained by grinding hemp seeds at a cool temperature, until obtaining a creamy, rich green color texture. 

While eating it raw is the best from a nutritional standpoint, the gooey and sticky texture makes it great for baking.

One of my favorite ways to use hemp seeds is DIY hemp milk: Homemade Hemp Seed Milk.

A few other ways we love using hemp seeds are:

• Green Plantain Pancakes with Hemp Seeds
• Tabbouleh with Millet and Hemp Hearts

How does hemp butter taste?

Raw, organic hemp butter has a grassy, slightly nutty taste. It resembles a little bit the taste of pine nuts, but it has a distinctive earthy hemp seed taste.

Where to find hemp seed butter?

It depends on where you are in the world, but for the US market, there are a few options on Amazon:

• Wilderness Poets Hemp Seed Butter – Organic, Raw, Seed Spread (8 Ounce)
• Sun and Seed – Organic Raw Nut Butter – Gluten Free and Keto Friendly – Ultra Healthy – Made With Only Raw Organic Nuts – Stone Ground (Hemp Seed, 2 Pack)
• Windy City Organics Dastony Hemp Seed Butter – 8 oz

I don’t have a hemp butter recipe, but if you have a good food processor, you can make hemp seed butter at home. I do prefer to buy it because mine never comes out as smooth as the one I buy.

Ingredients for the hemp butter brownies

These brownies are made with whole, naturally sweet ingredients, so there is no sweetener added. They are lectin-free, gluten-free, vegan.

If you want to make these brownies nut-free, replace the almond flour with another flour like sorghum, or use only tigernut flour (despite the name, tiger nuts are not nuts). For more information on gluten-free and lectin-free flour alternatives, check our article: Quick Guide to Lectin-Free, Gluten-Free Flours.

You can also keep the hazelnut butter out of this recipe and add more hemp seed butter.

• 2 cups mashed, cooked sweet potato
• 1/2 cup tigernut flour
• 1/2 cup almond flour
• 90 grams hemp seed butter
• 4 teaspoons hazelnut butter
• 3 heaping tablespoons organic cacao powder (NOT cocoa powder)
• 1/2 teaspoon Himalayan pink salt
• 2 heaping tablespoons coconut oil, softened but not melted
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• about 40 grams of dark chocolate, chopped
• coconut oil for greasing the dish
• optional: hemp seeds to sprinkle on top / more hemp seed butter to drizzle on top

The batter of this cake is 100% edible.

Choose a dark chocolate 85% and above, or dark chocolate sweetened with stevia, monk fruit or another non-caloric sweetener.

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How to make hemp seed butter brownies

• Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
• Prepare a baking dish by greasing it generously with coconut oil. I like to use a pyrex (glass). The one I have now is 9 inches x 5 inches. You can use a smaller one, and the layer will be thicker but don’t use a bigger one, as it will be too thin. If you decide to use a metal baking dish, use parchment paper for easy release.
• Add all the ingredients, except for the chopped chocolate, to a food processor and mix until all is well combined and creamy.
• Transfer the content of the food processor to the baking dish, level it, and sprinkle the chopped chocolate on top. With the back of the spoon or a spatula, gently push the chocolate into the batter.
• Bake for about 35 minutes, until the cake is no longer soft to touch.
• Take out and let cool completely before cutting into squares. If you cut it while still warm, it may look a little uncooked, but it’s not. All the butter is super soft and needs to cool and the cake will settle.
• Preferably let it cool in a cold place or fridge before eating (the second day is best).

More healthy brownie recipes

For more healthy brownie recipes that are gluten-free, lectin-free, and sugar-free, check out the below posts:

• Keto Avocado Brownies with Hazelnuts
• Sweet Potato Brownie, Vegan, Low Histamine
• Lectin-Light Adzuki Beans Brownie with Olive Oil and Macadamia Nuts.

Happy cooking and let us know if you make this hemp butter brownie recipe!

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Hemp Seed Butter Brownies (Vegan, Sugar-Free, Gluten-Free)

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By Claudia Curici, Health Coach – Serves: 8-10

Prep Time: 10 minutes – Cooking Time: 35 minutes

These hemp seed butter brownies, made with wholesome and healthy ingredients, are easy to make, vegan, gluten-free, lectin-free, and sugar-free but so nutrient-rich and delicious. 

Ingredients

• 2 cups mashed, cooked sweet potato
• 1/2 cup tigernut flour
• 1/2 cup almond flour
• 90 grams hemp butter
• 4 teaspoons hazelnut butter
• 3 heaping tablespoons organic cacao powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Himalayan pink salt
• 2 heaping tablespoons coconut oil, softened but not melted
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• about 40 grams of dark chocolate, chopped
• coconut oil for greasing the dish
• optional: hemp seeds to sprinkle on top / more hemp seed butter to drizzle on top

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 350F (180C).

2

Prepare a baking dish by greasing it generously with coconut oil. I like to use a pyrex, the one I have now is 9 inches x 5 inches. You can use a smaller one, and the layer will be thicker, but don't use a bigger one, as it will be too thin. If you decide to use another type of dish, use parchment paper for easy release.

3

Add all the ingredients, except for the chopped chocolate, to a food processor and mix until all is well combined and creamy.

4

Transfer the content of the food processor to the baking dish, level it, and sprinkle the chopped chocolate on top. With the back of the spoon or a spatula, gently push the chocolate into the batter.

5

Bake for about 35 minutes, until the cake is no longer soft to touch.

6

Take out and let cool completely before cutting into squares. If you cut it while still warm, it may look a little uncooked, but it's not. All the butter is super soft and needs to cool and the cake will settle.

7

Preferably let it cool in a cold place or fridge before eating (the second day is best).

Notes

You can serve it with nut butter, compliant ice cream, or as it is. Since all the ingredients can be eaten raw, the batter taste and texture are amazing, like a chocolate mousse. So feel free to clean your working bowls with your fingers :).