24.May.2007 Double Chocolate Muffins

You will find it nearly impossible to differentiate this take on a muffin version of the popular wacky cake from a non-vegan version. These muffins are free of cholesterol, and rather low in fat, especially if using the nondairy milk instead of the creamer version.

Double Chocolate Muffins

Non-stick cooking spray if making jumbo muffins
1 cup (120 g) white whole-wheat or whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup (63 g) all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 cup (120 g) powdered sugar
1/4 cup (20 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon (76 g) unsweetened applesauce
1 tablespoon (15 ml) apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup (235 ml) plain soy creamer or any nondairy milk
1/3 cup (58 g) nondairy semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C, or gas mark 4).
Line a standard muffin tin with paper liners, or lightly coat a jumbo muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, sift together flours, salt, sugar, cocoa, and baking soda. Set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk together applesauce, vinegar, vanilla, and soy creamer.
Fold wet ingredients into dry, being careful not to over mix. Fold in chocolate chips.
Divide batter equally into muffin cups. Bake 16 to 20 minutes for standard muffins, 25 minutes for jumbo muffins, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack.

Yield: 6 jumbo or 12 regular muffins

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  • Celine says:

    yeah I’ve had that happen to me too. I’ll ask the obvious, although I usually blame the recipe in question: your baking soda/powder are all fresh and stuff, right? right.

    the apple sauce and/or pumpkin are used as the binder, but mostly to lower the amount of fat in this particular recipe. you could use oil instead. I haven’t tried it myself, so I cannot guarantee the results.
    the thing is, using apple sauce in these doesn’t make it taste healthy at all, so if you have access to the stuff, I’d go for it instead.

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  • Teresa says:

    Yep, my leavening ingredients are fresh. They’re working fine in my other recipes…(didn’t hurt to ask).

    ***No baking powder in this one?

    I’m looking forward to trying them, and when I do, I’ll let you know if they were round ;)

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  • Celine says:

    apparently not, T, no baking pow. :)

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  • Teresa says:

    Celine, they were a success!

    My kids and their omni friends (and my friends—the kids’ moms) loved it. The best way to test a recipe is on little kids because they’re brutally honest, and they don’t even know it.

    The muffins did NOT flatten out on me (though they weren’t as round-topped as your photo). They were cute, moist, and delicious. There might be a few reasons for that. For one, I chose to make 36 mini muffins instead of 12 regular size. Also, I decided to use 1/4 canola oil instead of the apple sauce. Switching to all ww pastry flour worked fine. In case it needed more umph, I put one egg equivalent of ener-g replacer, but I’m not sure if it really needed it.

    Changing a recipe the first time you bake something isn’t really fair to the original when judging the outcome. I’ve promised myself to make it the way you posted as well.

    Thanks so much for sharing the recipe and your additional input.

    Wonderful!

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  • mihl says:

    I am so making these again. Like now!

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