These brownies are fabulously vegan, sugar-free (they're sweetened with fruit), oil-free, and can be prepared gluten-free with oat flour or another gluten-free flour of choice. I used spelt flour, which is not gluten-free, but the taste of these brownies should be excellent with any flour.

I promise, you will not taste the beans! I love to enjoy these brownies as an after lunch or dinner treat or simply on their own with warm tea. As for the walnut flour, you can make your own walnut “flour” by grinding up raw walnuts in a food processor or high-powered blender. That’s all that walnut flour is.

A note about the coffee: I use certified Organic Fair Trade Coffee. Purchasing fair trade ensures that family farmers in remote locations are paid reasonably for the coffee beans rather than remain vulnerable to payment worth only a fraction of the true value of the beans by middlemen who don’t have these farmer’s best interests at heart.