Vegan Vanilla Muffins that are really easy to make and perfect for lunchboxes.
Vegan Vanilla Muffins
Samurai has a mini school concert this afternoon and I thought I would bake some treats for the kids and parents. (test out some recipes and not have a house full of snacks for me to eat). This is my first go at vegan muffins and they turned out great. Perfect for a healthy little snack or to go in lunchboxes rather than something store bought.
I thought it would be a lot harder having to replace eggs, milk and butter, but it was actually really easy. I did have to grab a few things from South West Provisions (my new favourite store).
Vegan Vanilla Muffins
- Yield: 50 small muffins 1x
Description
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal
- 5 tablespoons water
- 300g spelt flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- pinch sea salt
- 3/4 cup rapadura sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 3/4 cup coconut milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
In a small bowl combine the flaxseed meal and water, stir to combine and let sit for 5 minutes to thicken.
Preheat oven to 220°C. Line 2 mini muffin trays with muffin cups and spray the muffin cups with an oil-based spray.
In a large bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
In another bowl whisk together the sugar, flaxseed meal mix, coconut oil, coconut milk and vanilla extract.
Make a well in the dry ingredients and slowly add the wet, folding to just combine. You don’t want to overwork the mixture. A few lumps are ok. I then added chocolate chips to half my mixture.
Spoon the mixture into the muffin cups each nearly to the top.
Bake for 5 minutes, then without opening the oven, turn it down to 175°C and bake a further 5 minutes.
Allow to cool for 10 minutes, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
These are perfect for freezing.
If you don’t want vegan you can replace the flaxseed meal mix with 2 eggs, the coconut oil with melted butter and the coconut milk with your choice of milk, cows or nut milk will both work fine.
