Bake these indulgent vegan brownies with a cookie topping. They're easy to make and don't need expensive ingredients – just simple items from your storecupboard

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:15 mins
  • Cook:30 mins
• Easy
• Makes 12

• Dairy-free
• Egg-free
• Vegan
• Vegetarian

Ingredients

• 265g self-raising flour
• 245g soft brown sugar
• 50g cocoa powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 110ml vegetable oil
• 1½ tbsp white wine vinegar
• 85g dairy-free coconut yogurt
• 150g vegan cookies of your choice, broken into chunks

Method

• STEP 1

  Heat the oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3 and line a 18cm x 30cm brownie tin with baking parchment. In a bowl mix together the flour, sugar, cocoa and ½ tsp salt. In a jug mix together 125ml water with the vanilla, oil, vinegar and yogurt. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until smooth and combined.

• STEP 2

  Pour the mix into the tin and smooth the top. Push the chunks of vegan biscuits into the batter, leaving some poking out of the top. Bake for 30-35 mins until set but still squidgy in the middle. Leave to cool in the tin, then cut into squares.