Chocolate Brownie Flax Focaccia

     Lets take flax to a whole new level.  We are talking serious chocolate here.  Chocolate is a powerful antioxidant and very healthy for you on many levels except for the sugar you usually find it combined with.  Well here is a powerhouse combo – the fiber and nutrients of flax combined with the delicious healthiness of chocolate without all the nasty carbohydrates to spoil our fun.  For optimal health I recommend grinding your flax seeds fresh.  Most people use a coffee grinder for this purpose, but I found my Vita-mix worked just fine.

    2 cups ground Flax seed (or 1 cup flax and 1 cup Almond Flour)
    ¾ cup unsweetened Chocolate Powder
    ¾ - 1 cup Dr. Dave’s Double Sugar
    ½ cup Ghee or butter
    6 Eggs
    ½ cup water
    3 tsp. Baking Powder
    1 tsp. Vanilla
    1 tsp. Sea Salt

*Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  
*Grind your Flaxseed or use store bought Flax meal.
*Mix all the dry ingredients together well in a large bowl.
*Blend together the eggs, water, and vanilla well.
*Add the Ghee and egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
*Pour mixture onto a 10X17 baking pan lined with an oiled parchment or silicone baking mat (or silicone baking 8x8 pan.)  Spread the mixture out into a rectangle about ½ inch thick.  It will not cover the whole pan.
*Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
*Cut into 12 pieces and cool on a rack or paper towel.

For extra interest you might add 1/2 cup raw Cocao Nibs to the batter (that is the real unprocessed raw stuff that chocolate is made from), or sprinkle the top of the focaccia with sliced almonds.

The chocolate powder adds a little bit of carbohydrate so each piece has about 3 grams of carbohydrate.   I made it with the ¾ cup of Dr. Dave sweetener, which I thought was just right, but Ellen thought it should be sweeter.  You choose how sweet you like this low-carb, high fiber, gluten and casein free delight.