This time we’ve been testing out vegan chocolate muffins on the kids – will they notice a difference to their normal dairy laden treats?
We’ve used the basic chocolate cupcake recipe from The Vegan Society as our base, and come up with the following (the texture is much more muffin than cupcake)
The Recipe
250ml chocolate soya milk
1 tsp vinegar
130g plain flour
50g cocoa
7g bicarbonate of soda
5g baking powder
130g caster sugar
80ml vegetable oil
50g vegan chocolate buttons / broken up chocolate
Preheat the oven to 170 fan / 180c / gas mark 6
You will need two mixing bowls, a measuring jug plus a balloon whisk (or hand whisk). You can use either a muffin tin or standard cupcake tin with muffin cases.
In one bowl, measure out the soya milk and add the vinegar to it. Mix gently and leave for a few minutes for the milk to curdle.
In the other mixing bowl, measure out the plain flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder. You can sift the ingredients at this stage, but it is not essential (you could break up any big lumps with a fork).
Add the caster sugar and oil to the soya milk bowl and whisk until the liquid is combined and foaming. Add the dry ingredients into the liquid in two batches, and whisk until you get a smooth batter. Try to whisk out any large lumps, tiny ones are fine. The batter will be runny!
At this stage, you can add the chocolate into the batter or save it to decorate the tops after you have filled the cake cases.
Fill the muffin cases (to about 0.5cm from the top) and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. The muffins will be fairly firm to the touch.
The Verdict
Once you get used to the unconventional method, this recipe is really easy to do and great for baking with your children. The kids (and husband in particular) really loved the taste and texture, and didn’t question anything about them.
With such a focus on vegan and clean eating at the moment, it can’t be a bad thing to make small changes to our diet, and we will definitely be making these again!
13 comments
Tash
Oh thanks for sharing! Definitely going to try on the weekend with the kids. #AnythingGoes
GemAuthor
Good plan! They’re really good for making with the kids, because you don’t have to be 100% with the measurements, and you can’t over mix!
sophie
These look yummy and I think I will try them as they look easy too. I’m very interested in Vegan food and try not to eat too much animal products. Thank you for sharing. #anythinggoes
GemAuthor
They are very easy, and very yummy!
mummy here and there
ooo these look something that I can mange. I shall bookmark it, thank you for sharing X #anythinggoes
GemAuthor
They’re super easy!
Kate
Ooooh I will need to give these a try they look yummy! #AnythingGoes
GemAuthor
They are quite addictive!
This Scribbler Mum
Looks good! Will definitely give this a try! #KidsandKreativity
Kerry
Love the idea of these, i’ve Not tried making anything dairy free if i’m honest, but this sounds quite simple to do. Thank you so much for linking up at #KidsandKreativity I hope you come back next time.
GemAuthor
They’re very easy, and you wouldn’t know that they’re dairy free!
Helena
I’m surprised to see vinegar listed as one of the ingredients in this. #KidsandKreativity
Malin - Sensational Learning with Penguin
Oh my, yum yum! Getting peckish now, reading this 😋x #KidsandKreativity