Chocolate brownies

Ingredients

• 2½ oz (75g) margarine
• 1½ oz (45g / 5 tbsp) cocoa powder
• 2½ fl oz (75ml) soya milk
• 7 oz (200g) caster sugar
• 6 oz (170g) rice flour
• 2½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp xanthan gum
• ¾ oz (20 g / 2½ tbsp) cocoa powder
• 4 oz (115g) caster sugar
• 7½ fl oz (210ml) soya milk
• 2½ fl oz (75 ml) vegetable oil
• 1 dssp vanilla essence
• 1 rounded dssp ground flax seed

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 180C, Gas Mark 4.
2. Combine first four ingredients in a saucepan and gently bring to the boil. Simmer for 1 minute, stirring well. Put saucepan into a bowl of cold water and beat sauce until it cools and thickens. Set aside.
3. Sieve flours, baking powder, xanthan gum, cocoa and sugar into a bowl. Mix soya milk, vegetable oil, vanilla essence and flax seed together. Stir flours, soya milk mixture and sauce together - do not overmix.
4. Place in a greased and lined tin roughly 10" x 8" and bake for 30 minutes.