Gluten-Free Chocolate Pistachio Brownies
These may be labelled as Brownies, but they’re rather more like squares of beautifully moist, fudgy dark chocolate cake with the best Sicilian pistachios scattered on top as an after-thought. And you wouldn’t think it but they’re gluten-free. This is the first time I’ve used rice flour in desserts and I can tell you, it’s certainly not the last! As you can see from the photograph, they didn’t even make it to a presentation plate to stage a fancy photo. You’ll see once you try the recipe yourself.
These brownies are inspired by the 100% Gluten-free bakery in Paris, Chambelland. As I don’t follow a gluten-free diet myself, I couldn’t resist tasting a few of their breads for research purposes and, if you follow me on Instagram, you’ll see I tasted my research seriously for an Bonjour Paris article on the Top Gluten-Free Pastries in Paris. Chambelland’s Brownies are legendary. Here I’ve adapted their recipe by slightly reducing the sugar, replacing the nuts with pistachios, and making a bigger quantity fit for a birthday or Father’s Day cake.
For those of you who follow a gluten-free diet and are looking for something a bit different, I discovered this wonderful healthy compilation of 8 delicious gluten-free recipes over at Positive Health Wellness – it even includes Yorkshire puddings and a rather special monkfish curry that I could just imagine topped with a tikka macsala sweet-spicy macaron from the Mad About Macarons’ chapter. Did you know that macarons are also gluten-free?
And while we’re on the subject, why not top these brownies with a few macarons too?
Jill Colonna
Hi Jill,
In your recipe you call for dark cooking chocolate. Is this unsweetened chocolate?
Hi William,
Unsweetened chocolate is 100% cacao – this is using a dark chocolate for cooking that’s at least 50% so in American terms it will be Bittersweet chocolate. Thanks for pointing this out – have updated the recipe for you over the pond!
These look fantastic, Jill, will be making them even though I have no one GF in my life now!
You’re like me, David. No need for GF right now but these are really so worth making! Thanks for popping by.
I will have to make these for my 2 friends and neighbors who are both on a GF diet! They look absolutely, lush, Jill! We’ll see how they go, but I think I should probably just make a double batch and save myself some time! 😉
Great that you can have this recipe handy for your gluten-free friends. And yes, the double quantity may be good, especially if the neighbours start to talk about them!
Hi Tonio – let’s just say we made a few batches of it the past week, as it’s completely addictive!
And on top of that it must be absolutely yummy !
Hi Jackie, let me know how you get on. They’re pretty addictive…
Omg I have to make these! I’ve been searching for a good gluten free cake. Thank you so much for sharing this 🙂