Gluten-Free Brownies & Blondies

Nothing beats a warm, fudgy gluten-free brownie — but gluten-free brownie recipes live or die on details other recipes can ignore: the flour blend, whether xanthan gum is needed, and how long you dare leave them in the oven.

Every recipe below is complete on the creator’s page — we’ve done the digging so you don’t have to. Each one tells you exactly what you’ll need before you click, so you’ll never discover at the mixing bowl that you’re missing the one ingredient you don’t keep.

One flour-blend note before you start: the recipes below were written for the brands their creators use (Bob’s Red Mill, King Arthur, Pillsbury). If you’re in the UK, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand, a supermarket own-brand “gluten free plain/plain flour” blend behaves close enough for brownies — brownies are forgiving. We flag every recipe that needs anything fancier.

Find your brownie

“I want brownies tonight with the cheapest ingredient list” → Cheap & Easy Chocolate Brownie
“I’m avoiding FODMAPs or dairy” → Best Ever Chocolate Brownies
“I’m out of gluten-free flour entirely” → Flourless Chocolate Brownies
“I want blondies” → Gluten-Free Blondies
“My flour blend has xanthan gum in it” → Mama Knows Gluten Free Brownies
“Bare cupboard, three ingredients” → Banana Brownies

1. Cheap and Easy Gluten Free Chocolate Brownie — The Seedy Collection

Why it’s here: the rare brownie that skips both xanthan gum and almond flour, and gets straight to the recipe — no essay before the ingredients. If you bake once a month, this is the one you’ll actually remember.

Pantry check: butter or margarine, sugar, cocoa, eggs (just 2), your GF plain flour, vanilla. Chocolate chips and nuts are optional. Nothing to hunt down — everything lives in a regular supermarket.

Dairy-free option ✅ · Nut-free ✅ · Egg-free ❌ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at theseedycollection.com

2. Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies “Best Ever” — Gluten Free Cuppa Tea

Why it’s here: the pick if you’re low FODMAP or dairy-free — a combination almost no brownie recipe bothers with. The creator also adds proper notes and nutrition info, which matters when you’re cooking for a sensitive gut.

Pantry check: GF plain flour, cocoa, caster sugar, butter (or DF block), 3–4 eggs. The one item to plan for: 250 g chocolate — buy a block and chop it, no need for special chips.

Dairy-free option ✅ · Nut-free ✅ · Egg-free ❌ · Low FODMAP ✅ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk

3. Gluten-Free Blondies — Broma Bakery

Why it’s here: the butterscotch-and-brown-sugar flavour of a proper blondie, without xanthan gum. It has a big base of positive reviews behind it.

Pantry check: butter, light brown sugar, 1 egg + 1 extra yolk, vanilla, GF 1:1 blend (Bob’s Red Mill or King Arthur), dark chocolate chips. No unusual items — the extra yolk is the only thing casual bakers don’t usually plan for. Takes a little over an hour.

Dairy-free ❌ · Nut-free ✅ · Egg-free ❌

→ Get the recipe at bromabakery.com

4. Flourless Chocolate Brownies — RecipeTin Eats

Why it’s here: for the day the GF flour tin is empty. Melted chocolate does the structural work instead of flour, and the creator’s notes on chocolate choice and egg size are genuinely useful — this is one of the most detailed recipes online.

Pantry check: dark chocolate, butter, eggs (2), brown sugar, vanilla. The specialty item: almond meal (or blitz blanched almonds yourself). Contains nuts, so it’s not the school-lunch-box option.

Dairy-free ❌ · Nut-free ❌ · Egg-free ❌ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at recipetineats.com

5. Gluten-Free Brownies — Mama Knows Gluten Free

Why it’s here: the counterpoint to every recipe above — this one is built for flour blends that already contain xanthan gum (like Pillsbury’s). If that’s the bag in your cupboard, most “no xanthan” recipes will fight you. This one won’t.

Pantry check: butter (or DF spread), white + brown sugar, 2 eggs, vanilla, an all-purpose GF blend with xanthan, cocoa. Nothing exotic — and it’s the fastest bake on this page at about 40 minutes.

Dairy-free option ✅ · Nut-free ✅ · Egg-free ❌

→ Get the recipe at mamaknowsglutenfree.com

6. Healthy Banana Brownies — The Conscious Plant Kitchen

Why it’s here: three ingredients, no flour, no eggs — and it uses up the bananas going brown on the counter. Not a classic fudgy brownie, but the one to hand kids or to rescue a craving when the cupboard’s bare.

Pantry check: ripe bananas, cocoa, peanut butter — that’s it. Optional: dairy-free dark chocolate chips for sweetness. The only recipe here that’s naturally egg-free.

Dairy-free ✅ · Nut-free ❌ · Egg-free ✅ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at theconsciousplantkitchen.com

7. Fudgy Gluten Free Brownies — Broma Bakery

Why it’s here: the maximum-fudge option — the entire recipe uses just 6 tablespoons of GF flour, so the texture comes from cocoa and butter, not a flour blend. If your brownies keep coming out cakey, this is the one to study.

Pantry check: butter, brown sugar, 2 eggs, Dutch-process cocoa (the one item to check your aisle for), salt, vanilla, and a tiny amount of GF 1:1 blend. Nut-free as written.

Dairy-free ❌ · Nut-free ✅ · Egg-free ❌ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at bromabakery.com

8. Gluten-Free Brownies, Super Fudgy & Dairy-Free — Texanerin

Why it’s here: the veteran of this page — over 600 comments and still being baked. The dairy-free version is a true swap, not an afterthought: refined coconut oil instead of butter keeps the flavour neutral.

Pantry check: GF flour (the creator lists options in her notes), Dutch-process cocoa, sugar (white, raw or coconut all work), 3 eggs, chocolate chips. For dairy-free: refined coconut oil + DF chocolate — both ordinary supermarket items in most countries now.

Dairy-free option ✅ · Nut-free ✅ · Egg-free ❌ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at texanerin.com

9. Epic Gluten Free Brownies — My GF Guide

Why it’s here: the two-chocolate version — dark and milk chocolate gives a rounder, less intense sweetness than all-dark recipes. Also the only one on this page built around salted butter, so there’s no separate salt to measure.

Pantry check: 125 g each of dark and milk chocolate, salted butter, 4 eggs, caster sugar, GF plain flour, vanilla. Nothing unusual — and no xanthan gum or almond flour in sight.

Dairy-free ❌ · Nut-free ✅ · Egg-free ❌ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at mygfguide.com

10. The PERFECT Gluten-Free Brownies — One Lovely Life

Why it’s here: the lighter-on-refined-sugar pick — coconut sugar does the sweetening (white or brown works as a sub), and the optional flaky sea salt finish makes it feel like a bakery brownie.

Pantry check: chocolate chips, coconut oil (or butter), coconut sugar, 2 eggs, almond flour — that’s the specialty item, so skip this one if nuts are an issue. Cocoa, baking powder, salt.

Dairy-free option ✅ · Nut-free ❌ · Egg-free ❌ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at onelovelylife.com

11. Gluten-Free Chocolate Brownies — David Lebovitz

Why it’s here: the pastry-chef option, and the answer if you’ve found gluten-free brownies too sweet — the least sugar per gram of chocolate on this page. Cleverly, there’s no GF flour at all: cornflour (cornstarch) does the thickening, and every kitchen has it.

Pantry check: 225 g bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, butter, sugar (only 150 g), 2 eggs, cocoa, 3 tablespoons cornflour. Nuts are optional, not required.

Dairy-free ❌ · Nut-free ✅ (without the optional nuts) · Egg-free ❌ · About 60 minutes

→ Get the recipe at davidlebovitz.com

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Gluten-Free Brownie & Blondie Recipes