Do you remember my spectacular friend Emma? She’s the one who got married in a red polka dot dress, the one who lives in Belgium, the one whose sister I’m often mistaken for when we’re together. (I wish we could be together more often but, well, Belgium.)
Whenever I travel, Emma never fails to send me recommendations for delicious vegan desserts I should track down. I always respond to these recommendations with excitement, and then… don’t quite follow through.
Until now. Until she ordered me to visit Sticky Fingers, an all-vegan café and bakery of extravagance here in Washington, D.C.
Until this splendiferous vegan chocolate brownie happened.
I can’t even.
There aren’t words.
Perfectly rich gooey soft chewy crackly-top chocolate-chip-studded salty-edge silken dense vegan incredibleness.
And this is coming from someone who normally wants nothing to do with chocolate-flavoured baked goods. I usually want my chocolate straight-up, in bar or block form. No more, no less.
But I couldn’t say no to this brownie. To seeing whether it could compare to the definitely-not-vegan chocolate brownies of my childhood.
Dear heavens, it compared. It definitely compared. And exceeded. All hail the vegan joy.
Thank you, Emma. One day we’ll visit Sticky Fingers (and Lulu’s Sweet Apothecary) together. And that day will be marvellous beyond imagining.
Heel click,
Hannah
Love love love Sticky Fingers!
It looks good, thick, and rich!
GAH! So jealous! I’ve got to get to Sticky Fingers one day. And Lula’s…
And New Orleans… and Paris…
oh wowwiee! It looks so dense! I could almost grab it from my screen!
Oh, my goodness. That looks like a brownie to die for!
just looking at these photos makes me think that you are right to listen to her recommendations
She’s never guided me wrong in anything yet.
Well if you of all people don’t have words…….it must be really amazing!
A brownie must be gooey.
For brownie-people, this is definitely a brownie to seek out.
I really really wanted there to be a recipe forthis. Lol!
Well…. http://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Fingers-Sweets-Super-Secret-Recipes/dp/1583334637
Yummm…i love you Hannah
so glad that my recommendation did not fail to impress!
I love you more! And I just read about a new place in New York doing vegan soft serve. I want to compare it to the one I just had in Austin… with you by my side. Oh why won’t you come?!
Holy bucket that brownie looks good. I’m kicking myself for not getting to Sticky Fingers when I was in DC! I have, though, had cinnamon buns from there delivered to my mum for a birthday gift, so I do feel good about that decision.
I think I may have missed out by not going the cinnamon bun route, but I’m wary of bread-y-sickly-sweet things… I want someone else to buy one so I can just take a bite and see
Wow that brownie beckons with its fudginess
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Ah, that brownie looks absolutely amazing! What about adding some nuts? Mmmmm
My fall-back brownie recipe does tehnically use walnuts but, personally, I’m not a big fan of nuts in brownies.
Must say, it looks very yummy. Good on Emma for pointing you to it!
It was just a wee bit richer than the one we used to make! Though perhaps around the level of your old Triple Chocolate Brownie Pie…
This does look quite incredible. So moist! I love moist brownies but don’t even bother with the cake-like, crumb-texture ones. I have also loved the vegan brownies I’ve tasted far more than the non-vegan ones I had irregularly in childhood (irregular because they weren’t my favourite even then). Thank goodness you followed through! Heel click indeed.
It’s probably important for me to dip my toe in the chocolate-baked-goods waters every now and again. If only because it creates opportunities for me to shudder at the word “moist”.
Wow, now I’m wondering how I could have overlooked this recipe in their cookbook… I must investigate once more, in the name of research, of course.
Always, always research! But I’m sure your cookbooks include recipes for brownies that are even more magnificent
um, that looks like a little piece of heaven…I hope you will post a copy cat recipe soon…I’ll be waiting patiently but salivating profusely ^.^
Might I direct you to my raw brownies with icing of pure amazingness? Truly, they’re the only brownies I ever want to make myself, so perhaps don’t hold your breath for a baked version in the immediate future
I’ve never seen a bride in a red polka-dot dress. What an unusual choice. I did see a bride in an all-red dress complete with red veil and the dress was a very traditional dress with an enormous train and the bride had black hair and bright red lips and she actually looked quite horrifying. There was just too much red. I think she was trying to channel ‘passion’ but it didn’t exactly work out for her when her husband (years later) embezzled money leaving her with the debts and he took off to South Africa to be with his internet lover. Anyway…I digress…that does look like a very lovely brownie – so rich and dense and I’m sure your ‘sister’ looked nothing like the bride I’ve described! xx
Holy moly, how is that real and not a plot from a terrible fiction novel?! Thank heavens Emma was the antithesis of your horror red bride (she was gorgeous, ethereal, fun, beautiful, completely, completely, “her”). I’m sure Emma has nothing but golden moments ahead of her
wow! looks like a great brownie!
WOW. That looks like it IS a chocolate bar! So dense. I’ve heard great things about Sticky Fingers. Glad you could enjoy it.
In truth, it did make me feel mildly nauseous, but that was probably because I’d also eaten two separate blocks of dark chocolate from Cocova about a half hour before…
Well, it almost looks like it IS chocolate straight-up! No wonder you loved it!
Oh, Hannah I want this now!! I want to heel click and have a sticky fingers vegan brownie, I so do. So you’re in DC, now?! Such the traveller. Hope it’s grand. Say hi to Michelle for me, I hear she’s a swell lady.
Heidi xo
I wish I could have shared with you! Perhaps then I wouldn’t have eaten an entire brownie straight after two blocks of chocolate, and I wouldn’t have felt so ill (but so worth it
).
New York again tomorrow for a few days. My US days are dwindling fast!
That brownie looks mighty delicious!
Oh this looks so great. And I don’t even care if vegan or not!
Splendiferous is the world. Also swoonworthy.
Need. Chocolate. Now.
Would you like to share one of the three blocks of dark chocolate I’ve brought with me for my five hour bus ride to New York? You’re more than welcome, my dear!
Say no to chocolate in baked goods? Are you mad, woman?!! I say “yes” to chocolate in any form! I’m the Molly Bloom of chocolate lovers–yes I said yes I will yes!! (Okay, maybe not garlic-bread chocolate baked goods. . . but I’d probably try that, even). Glad you gave it a go and glad you loved it!
Gosh, have we really not had this conversation before? I feel like I’ve spent half my life convincing people that I’m not joking when I say that I have absolutely no interest in chocolate desserts. Give me lemon, caramel, pistachio…
Funnily enough, I WOULD try garlic bread chocolate, though.
YUMMM!!!
WOW all vegan cafe?!? and it’s actually really nice? That’s really impressive because the last time I had vegan desserts they weren’t very exciting but this sure looks sweet and yummy!
Oh Daisy, I thought I’d cured you of your antipathy towards vegan desserts already through the recipes on my blog! Clearly I still have some work to do
This does look most delicious indeed.
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