Start your day off with a bang with this deliciously healthy personal pan dark chocolate paleo breakfast brownie!
My favorite meal.
There’s no doubt about it, breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. There’s just something so comforting about waking up to a nice warm muffin on a chilly day, a healthy smoothie during the summer heat, a homemade donut on the weekend, or a… personal pan brownie.
Yes, brownies are a personal breakfast favorite of mine.
I know, they’re not the normal breakfast food, but they are a pretty dang good one! And if you make them right, they can be a pretty healthy one, too.
A healthy start.
Let’s just take a look at all the goodness packed into this beauty, for instance…
Almond flouris a very good source of vitamin E as well as iron, manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium and more. And when baking, it has a wonderfully ‘normal’ texture and crumb.
Besides being a wonderful source of omega-3 fatty acids, flax meal slows the breakdown of starchy carbohydrates and decreases blood sugar spikes.
Cocoacontains phenethylamine, a substance that acts as a natural antidepressant. And that’s pretty important when you don’t like getting up in the morning, but I digress… Cocoa is full of flavonoids and hot cocoa has more antioxidants per cup than a serving of red wine or tea! So you should probably drink a cup of hot chocolate with this breakfast brownie. 😉
Applesauce is high in many beneficial phytochemicals, like catechin, chlorogenic acid, phloridzin and quercetin. All of which your body uses as antioxidants to prevent damage to your cells.
Honey is full of friendly bacteria, vitamins and minerals (like niacin, thiamine, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, vitamin C & B6, calcium, and iron), making it anti-fungal and probiotic powerhouse. In order to get as many benefits from your honey as possible, try to get a local, raw honey. Added bonus: local honey and/or bee pollen does wonders to help seasonal allergies!
And last, but definitely not least, coconut milk is rich in vitamins C, E, B1, B3, B5 and B6, as well as many minerals including iron, selenium, magnesium, sodium, calcium, and phosphorous.
More paleo breakfast favorites:
- Banana Lemon Muffins
- Easy Paleo Mocha Chia Pudding
- Hot ‘N Creamy Pumpkin Flax Cereal
- Chocolate Peppermint Frosty
- Sourdough Almond Flour Waffles
- Dark Chocolate Triple Berry Muffins
- Personal Pan Mocha Muffin
I’m sure by now you’re 100% convinced that this personal pan dark chocolate paleo breakfast brownie is the best way to start off your day. So what are you waiting for? Make yourself one, and dig in! It’s for your health….Â
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Personal Pan Dark Chocolate Paleo Breakfast Brownie
Free of grain, gluten, eggs, dairy, and refined sugar.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 2 tablespoon flax meal
- dash of sea salt
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder (I love this organic fair-trade stuff!)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar (leave out for GAPS)
- 1/4 cup applesauce (I just make my own by pureeing an apple in my blender)
- 1/4 cup honey or maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons coconut milk (I like to use my homemade coconut milk)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 6-inch ramekin or casserole dish.
Whisk together dry ingredients. Dump wet ingredients on top and quickly mix together until no dry streaks remain.
Pour batter into prepared dish and bake for 30 minutes, or until the center is firm to the touch.
Cool, then top with shredded chocolate, walnuts, or topping of choice. Eat with a spoon.
Notes: Idea for this recipe from Strength & Sunshine’s chocolate mug brownie.
O perfect, perfect! All just for me!
Haha! Yes! Thanks, Rebecca. 😉
I LOVE the idea about pureeing an apple in the blender for a recipe like this. Applesauce for a recipe often trips me up b/c I don’t want to open a whole jar or whatever. So thank you. The brownie looks wonderful too; I want to try it soon.
Thank you, Jennifer! I hope you get a chance to enjoy it! I’m the same way about applesauce. 😉
I’m allergic to almonds do you have any suggestion of substitution for the flour. This really look great.
Thank you, Paula! If you can do regular gluten-free flour, then you could try a gf all-purpose in place of the almond flour. If you need grain-free, then I would try another nut flour, or cassava flour. I haven’t tried these subs, though, so I can’t verify that they will work 100%.
A breakfast brownie? Yes, please. It looks so moist and tempting.
Haha! Thanks, Mira! I’m a big fan of brownies for breakfast. 😉 I don’t feel so guilty eating them, then!
Chocolate brownies for breakfast! It’s a dream come true for this chocolate loving girl!
😉 I think I should specialize in making chocolate dreams realities…
These look delicious. Can I make this into a pie by simply multiplying the recipe?
I don’t see why not. 🙂 You might have to bake it a little longer, though…
Yum! This looks so good! I just pinned it and will try it out some time this week!
Thanks, Melissa! I hope you enjoy it!
Yes please! I would really like this right now WITH a big mason jar full of your chocolate peppermint frosty! 😉
Ooooh… What a wonderful idea! 😀
Such a perfect LITTLE recipe. Love it!
Haha! Thanks. 😉 It’s mom-sized.
You had me at ‘breakfast brownie’ !!
Looks SO decadent and yet it’s Free of grain, gluten, eggs, dairy, and refined sugar!
Thanks. Definitely pinning.. Hoping to make soon!
Thank you, Carol! I hope you get a chance to enjoy it!
So you’re saying if I’m not a morning person I should eat chocolate for breakfast every day? LMAO. Between your feed & the Nourishing Simplicity Instagram feed, I’m already craving hot buttered chocolate drinks once a day, it seems like. 🙂
Haha! Pretty much. 😉 I’m glad to encourage people to start their days off right. Be that with chocolate brownies, or chocolate drinks. 😉
I love brownies but I don’t like being tempted with a whole pan so this recipe is perfect!
Haha! I hear ya! 😉
Loving the indulgence of a brownie for breakfast, and making it in individual portions is great!
Thanks! It’s one of my favorite ways to start the day. 😉
This is wonderful idea of making single serving breakfast dish who can resist the brownie love this dark chocolate breakfast brownie that too paleo version.
Thank you, Swathi!
Breakfast is also my favorite meal of the day! I don’t tend to go full-brownie before noon, but these sound so healthy that I could justify it 🙂
Haha! They are definitely healthy enough to justify it. 😉
Personal Pan breakfast brownie and I’m in..but you’ve also made it healthy. Such a great idea 🙂
Thanks, Stephanie! 🙂
Can you sub this with protein powder for the almond flour? This looks yummy!!
Hm… I don’t have much experience baking with protein powder, and I haven’t tried it at all in this recipe. It’s definitely worth a try, though, if you can’t have almonds! I hope it works for you! You could also try buckwheat flour, though that would make the taste a little more, um, rustic. 😉
Thank you so much 🙂
SO fun! I am making this for momma soon! Thanks!
It’s definitely a good mom meal. No sharing required. 😉
i cant tolerate flax…can they be replaced by anything? this looks so amazing imwould love to try it.
You could replace it with coconut flour. 🙂
DROOL, this looks fantastic! Love that these are individually sized.
Thanks, Jean! It’s important for moms to have their own personal treats sometimes. 😉