Gooey Quinoa brownies to die for

Sometimes I get confronted with my kids special 'condition'. Him being the only celiac in the kindergarten classes is an accepted fact by the school and his classmates. They know he eats differently and other than that he is just Thijmen. But this semester's theme is food. And now it gets more and more obvious to Thijmens classmates what being a celiac actually means. To them it is normally limited to a different sandwich at lunchtime and his own treatbox.

But last week the kids were asked to bring some carton packaging of foods they eat to school. So there were the boxes of chocolate sprinkles and milk and cornflakes and so on and Thijmen? He brought the boxes of glutenfree candy, glutenfree flour and glutenfree falafel to school. Suddenly it was more than clear to his classmates that his eating pattern is very different.
And yesterday they talked about the letter of the week. The Q. The kids were asked to name things with a Q. And what did Thijmen say? Quinoa. Its becoming an increasingly big part of his (and our) diet and so it was a natural response. And his teacher? She had no clue what it was. So I will be handing him a packet of it to show in the class and I've baked Quinoa brownies for him to show him how proud I am of him and how faithful he is to his diet, his way of life. If he wants, he can give a piece to his teacher, to show her what can be made with Quinoa. A little education goes a long way, right?

Here is the recipe for the brownies. Its not mine, it's by NatureCrops whose Quinoa is always stocked in my glutenfree cabinet. I just added fiber husk and some xanthan gum to keep the brownies from crumbling too much.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams (9 oz) of glutenfree dark chocolate
• 200 grams (7 oz) of butter
• 300 grams (10.5 oz) of powdered sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of xanthan gum
• 1 tespoon of fiber husk
• 250 grams (9 oz) of Quinoa flour

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade (400 degrees Fahrenheit).
2. Chop up the chocolate and melt it together with the butter in a bowl over a pan with boiling water. Stir well so the butter and chocolate blend well.Let the mixture cool a bit. 
3. Beat the eggs lightly with the powdered sugar. Add to the chocolate mixture once it is cooled a bit. 
4. Put in the flour, xanthan gum and fiber husk and mix well for a few minutes. 
5. Pour it into a lined and greased brownie pan and bake into the oven for about 20-30 minutes. The inside will still be a bit gooey, but that makes them even better.
6. Let it cool a bit before you serve it.