Hot Cocoa Sorghum Brownies

Whole grain and vegan if you like or eggy if not. These beat wheat flour brownies with a stick.

2 eggs beaten or 1 tb ground flax with 2 tb hot water allowed to sit 5 minutes (cheaper than cage free eggs and might be healthier anyway)

6 tb cocoa powder (I'm not going to lecture you here about making sure you get one of the slave labour free brands..much) These also taste good without the cocoa. Just add an equal amount of spices or flour and you're good.
1/2 tsp dried chiles of choice I like bird chiles here but 1/2 tsp of cayenne or 1 tsp of ancho taste good here too
1 tb cinnamon
1 cup packed brown sugar. Ditto on the slave labour. (This means a legitimate fair trade co-op grown variety or 'inferior' beet sugar like imperial or holly brand. Either way you're stirring in a touch of molasses to make it "brown sugar".) Or you can use 3/4 cup of honey instead and add 1/4c more barley flour
1/2 cup oil / butter/ coconut fat
(or 1/4 c applesauce or pumpkin puree and 1/4 of the fats above)
1 Tb vanilla
3/4 cup sorghum flour (see note)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (aluminum free if you have it)
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup add in like more chocolate, chopped ginger, nuts totally optional
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease an 8-by-8-inch baking dish.
In a large bowl, beat together eggs, cocoa powder, sugar, oil and vanilla.
In a medium bowl, sift or whisk together barley flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to egg mixture, mixing well. Stir in walnuts, incorporating them well.
Pour batter into buttered pan or if you're like me and hate doing dishes lay down parchment in a lasagna pan and double the batch. If desired dust with more cocoa, cinnamon.
Bake until a tester comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Leftovers freeze well.
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Adapted from "Bob's Red Mill Baking Book"
Here's a link to a table of slave free chocolate manufacturer's.
  and this explains why you should pony up the extra $ and just eat less cocoa and sugar aside from the obvious health reasons on the latter.