Gluten-free brown rice flour brownies are a moist, fudgy, decadent dessert sweetened with pure maple syrup. You’d never know they’re gluten-free!

Gluten-Free Rice Flour Brownies - a rich and decadent treat sweetened with pure maple syrup and made with rice flour

Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s going to happen: Youโ€ฆyouโ€™re going to go out and find yourself a legitimate tragedy prior to baking these brownies. Because if youโ€™re already happy before eating these, you will, in a word, implode. With jubilation.

You may want to put on CMT right now and grab a box of Kleenex. Let it out. You just let it right out.

These brownies will slap you upside the head and right all the wrongs. All of them. Plus any wrongs that happen to be strolling within a 100-foot radius. They are gluten free and are made with brown rice flour, but haste: that does not make them good for you. These are little chocolate sugar bomb babies, reserved for CMT and kleenex sessions.

They are the kind of brownies you only eat while youโ€™re wailing to your girlfriend in a pitch so high only dogs can hear it as sheโ€™s painting your toenails and force-drinking you delicious wine.

Okay, you can eat them on a good day too.

Gluten-Free Rice Flour Brownies - a rich and decadent treat sweetened with pure maple syrup and made with rice flour

How to Make Rice Flour Brownies:

Guess what?! You prepare the brownie batter on the stove top. Have you done this before? I promise it is easy. 

Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the sugar, then the cocoa powder and vanilla extract.

What happens is epic. You have buttery smell good. On the stove top. For brownies.

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You then whisk in your eggs and test the mixture for salmonella…using your mouth.

Add in your dry mixture, do more mixing and then in the oven it goes. For what seems like eternity.

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Allow the brownies to cool at least 20 minutes before diving in. With a spatula + your face.

Next, what happens is between you and the brownie. No witnesses. What happens to the brownie pan stays in theโ€ฆbrownieโ€ฆpanโ€ฆyeah.

I highly suggest enjoying these brownies with some form of ice cream. My 3-Ingredient No-Churn Vanilla Ice Cream is a marvelous companion!

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Gluten-Free Rice Flour Brownies - a rich and decadent treat sweetened with pure maple syrup and made with rice flour

Gluten Free Brown Rice Flour Brownies

4.36 from 103 votes
Gluten-free rice flour brownies are a delicious moist dessert! Recipe updated 9/20/2017
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 16 servings

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and lightly oil an 8โ€ x 8โ€ baking pan (or line with parchment paper.
  • In a bowl, mix together the brown rice flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and instant coffee granules. Set aside.
  • In a saucepan, melt the butter (or coconut oil) over medium heat with the chocolate chips and pure maple syrup, stirring constantly. Avoid letting the mixture get too hot because you'll want to cool it.ย Remove saucepan from the heat and allow it to cool.
  • Whisk in the vanilla extract, then the eggs one at a time. Whisk until the mixture is thick and glossy and looks like pudding or ganache.
  • Pour in the dry mixture and mix until just combined.
  • If you are adding additional chocolate chips, do so now (allowing the batter to cool before adding the chocolate chips will ensure they stay intact).
  • Pour the batter into the baking pan and bake for 25 to 35 minutes, until cooked through.
  • Allow brownies to cool for 15 minutes before serving!

Notes

*You can also use coconut oil

Nutrition

Serving: 1of 16 ยท Calories: 153kcal ยท Carbohydrates: 16g ยท Protein: 3g ยท Fat: 10g ยท Fiber: 2g ยท Sugar: 10g
Author: Julia
Course: Desserts & Treats
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate, gluten free, gluten free brownies, rice flour, rice flour brownies
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Gluten-Free Rice Flour Brownies sweetened with pure maple syrup. A delicious fudge brownie recipe

Julia Mueller
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Julia Mueller

Julia Mueller is a recipe developer, cookbook author, and founder of The Roasted Root. She has authored three bestselling cookbooks, – Paleo Power Powers, Delicious Probiotic Drinks, and The Quintessential Kale Cookbook. Her recipes have been featured in several national publications such as BuzzFeed, Self, Tasty, Country Living, Brit.co, etc.

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Questions and Reviews

  1. Hi, these look great! Could I substitute the brown rice flour for just normal rice flour? It’s what I have on hand? Thanks!

  2. Marjorie Cross, smalltownkitchen.com
    Just popped these in the oven, I have never made brownies with brown rice flour but they smell wonderful. That sure was a lot of cocoa in the recipe but then again I doubled it t make a 13 X 9 pan. For Julie you add the coffee crystals to bring out all the chocolate flavor. Thanks for the recipe.

  3. Been googling googling googling for a glueten free brownie recipe. I finally came upon one with a fudgy yummy looking photo, this one! I plan to make them for my kiddos. While they enjoy a fine frappy type coffee from time to time, I don’t think they will like it in their brownies. Is it there for taste or another reason? BTW, your recipe came up on the first page of my google search when I searched using brown rice brownies (since that’s the flour I have on hand and have never used it before)

  4. Do you think I could use Black rice flour (I am attempting to make some!)? I will try! And you crack me up, I love it ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Hi Anne, Awww, thanks! I’ve never used black rice flour, but if you’ve had success using it as a replacement in the past, I assume it would work. Thanks for your sweet compliment and let me know how the brownies work out ๐Ÿ™‚

      1. Julia! The black rice “flour” ende d up pretty gritty ๐Ÿ™ but it could have been my ghetto coffee bean grinder flour making attempt! Still love the recipe “your” way! Cheers!

      2. Ann F. “If you want to make rice flour at home you need to soak the raw rice in water for 48 hours, changing the water every 12-24 hours and let it air dry until mostly dry to the touch. Afterwards grind in a wet and dry grinder, steel blender, or blade coffee grinder.” You’ll need to grinder from anywhere to 10 seconds to a minute taking breaks every few seconds to avoid damaging the grinding equipment. ๐Ÿ™‚ I hope this helps bye.

  5. I just made this for a Christmas day luncheon. I used organic coconut flour instead, but it created such dense mixture I had to add apple sauce. I have no clue how it will taste, but I just took them out of the convection oven and they smell divine. I made it with and without walnuts. I can’t eat gluten because I get joint pains so I have all types of flours at home – Coconut, Almond Meal, Almond Blanche, Brown Rice, Soy, and some other mixture I got from amazon that has everything for making bread. Wish me luck, my gluten organic conscious family will be my guinea pigs.

    1. Good luck! So glad you made them! Did you replace the coconut flour at a 1:1 ratio? If so, it makes sense that the mixture would be very dense, as coconut flour absorbs far more liquid (maybe 4 or 5 times more) than brown rice flour. I hope they turn out well and I hope your family loves them! Merry Christmas and thanks for the note!!

  6. Ermagersh!! Stop it. How’m I gonna remember these when I have a horrible day and a box of kleenex in my hands? I gotta must make ’em now. My girlfriends and I are going to start a show-watching night, but we haven’t decided on a show to watch! Whatever it is (suggestions?), Imma bring these.

    1. I’d definitely default to a Desperate Housewives maraathon…there’s so much good stuff there! Or Grey’s Anatomy…or Revenge…oh man, I’m jealous, now I want to eat brownies and watch TV shows! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  7. Yeah. You know that weirdness about Stephie hating chocolate? Yeah. Didn’t come from me. So, I could make these and get lots and lots of them. ๐Ÿ™‚

      1. Hi Shereen,

        I would bake the brownies first and then freeze them, although I’ve never tried freezing brownie batter myself. Hope you enjoy the brownies!

  8. Those look so decadently fudgy!! I love baking with rice flour because it really adds to the soft, fudge factor. ๐Ÿ™‚

  9. We have actually had a good week (no one is more surprised than me!) But I think these would taste awesome as a celebration dessert. They look dangerously good.

  10. oh. wow. Hi! These look good, realllly good. I’ve actually been in the market for a GF brownie recipe to bring to a bachelorette party (with a GF bride) — do you think I could use these to make slutty brownies, or might the whole world implode?

    1. Heck yes! Bachelorette the crap out of these! Slut them up, sister! And yes, the whole world will most definitely implode, but we only live once. The rest of the world will understand ๐Ÿ˜‰

      1. Made `em last night. I declare slutty brownies with THESE brownies, to be the best food on the surface of the planet. Pack it up everyone, our work is done.

      2. YES! Now I want to sluttify them! If you feel like telling me what you added, I’ll be sure to make the skankiest brownie on the planet next time the girlies and I get together! SO excited! ๐Ÿ™‚