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Vegan Blueberry Muffins using Apple Cider Vinegar

March 2nd, 2009 Madhuram Posted in Food Blog Events, Muffins/Cupcakes, Vegan Baking | Print This Recipe Print This Recipe | 50 Comments »

Vegan Blueberry Muffins

Here comes another amazing vegan recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking. I’m pretty sure that this is the best eggless/vegan blueberry muffin one can bake. The recipe does have a minor flaw (the oven temperature), which can definitely be taken care of. The texture of this muffin is unbelievable. It’s as light as an angel food cake, which is made purely with egg whites. You can imagine how light that cake would be. So this blueberry muffin which uses vinegar as an egg substitute is also equally light and airy.

I used apple cider vinegar this time and did not get any after taste or smell from the vinegar. I made two batches of these muffins, used dairy milk (2%) and lemon zest for the first batch; rice milk and orange zest for the second batch. Few days back I baked a cake using white vinegar and soy milk and was not at all satisfied with the result. It had a strong smell of vinegar and the soy milk made it sticky too. That’s the reason I chose to use rice milk and apple cider vinegar for these blueberry muffins. I’ve baked using soy milk before and didn’t have this issue. I think the brand of soy milk and the recipe matters for getting the desired result.

Ingredients
Unbleached All Purpose Flour (I used bleached) 2 cups
Baking Soda 1 and 1/2 teaspoons
Salt 1/2 teaspoon
Lemon zest from 2 lemons
Sugar 3/4 to 1 cup
Milk, any (I used Rice Milk) 1 cup
Canola Oil 1/3 cup
Lemon Extract (I did not use it) 1 teaspoon
White Vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar) 1 tablespoon
Blueberries, fresh or frozen 1 and 1/2 cups

Yield: 12 muffins.

Procedure 1 Preheat the oven to 375F (see My Notes) for 15 minutes. Lightly
grease a muffin tin.

2 In a medium bowl, combine together flour, baking soda, salt and lemon zest.

3 In a large bowl, combine the sugar, milk, oil, extract, and vinegar. Mix well.

4 Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, stir until just combined. Don’t over stir.

5 Gently fold in the berries using a rubber spatula.

6 Fill the muffin tins about 2/3rds full.

7 Bake until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 22 minutes.

8 Remove from the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes. After that remove the muffins from the tins and cool on a wire rack.

My Notes 1 I didn’t want to bake 2 batches when I started. What happened was I didn’t read the recipe properly and poured the measured sugar on top of the flour instead of mixing it with the wet ingredients. I continued with it anyway and saw that the muffins began to brown very much around 12 minutes itself. The original recipe had mentioned to bake it at 400F. So I reduced the oven temperature to 375F. I thought that adding sugar to the flour was the reason and so I baked another batch following the instructions correctly. Even then the same thing happened. That’s when I realized that the oven temperature was the culprit. That’s the reason I have changed the temperature to 375F in the procedure. Later I was going through a whole wheat banana muffin recipe in The Joy of Baking website and there it was mentioned that baking that muffin directly in a muffin tin without the paper liner would yield a crusty and brownish muffins but it would soften later. The same thing happened in these blueberry muffins too. So you may also try lining the muffin tins with a paper liner, instead of pouring the batter in the greased molds.

2 Regarding sugar, the original recipe itself mentions 3/4-1 cup. For the first batch I used 3/4 cup because the vegan strawberry cupcakes which I tried earlier from the same book used 1 cup sugar and was very sweet. The sweetness of the blueberry muffins were perfect for us, but it may not be enough for everybody, especially if the blueberries are very sour. So for the second batch (I had already decided to give it to my neighbors, because I didn’t want to have it at home and gain weight) I decided to increase the quantity of sugar. I used little more than 3/4 cup and little less than 1 cup. That was good too.

3 I used frozen blueberries. Thawing is not necessary. Add it to the muffin batter directly from the freezer, but do not over mix, or else it would start bleeding.

These vegan strawberry cupcakes go to Egg Replacement Event – Vinegar hosted by me.

Vegan Blueberry Muffins

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50 Responses to “Vegan Blueberry Muffins using Apple Cider Vinegar”

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  1. 20
    Deepali Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 4:45 am

    Thanks Madhuram. Will check at both supermarket and health food shop. Am planning to try today with milk. Will let you know.

  2. 19
    laci Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Just like mom used to make BUT cruelty-free blueberry muffins, not from the box! :razz:

  3. 18
    Usha Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 8:19 am

    These blueberry muffins look so soft, fluffy and delicious. Would love to try this !

  4. 17
    Nithya Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Its great to see such wonderful muffins without eggs.Loved it:).You have something waiting for you in my post:)

  5. 16
    stephchows Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 am

    These muffins look delicious! I love blueberries :)

  6. 15
    Priya Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 am

    Gorgeous blueberry muffins Madhu…Great work!!

  7. 14
    roma Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 3:20 am

    I love blueberry muffins but am never able to make it as I dont find blueberries around here. Last time I had to settle for black raisins…
    Your muffins look just like the ones we get at cafe coffee day. Good work!

  8. 13
    Priya Sriram Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 1:01 am

    Blueberry muffin is one of my favourite cakes! Your pictures make me want to bake them. :) Perfect pictures Madhu!

  9. 12
    Marcia Says:
    March 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    I tried the ground flax seed for egg substitute in a Blueberry muffin recipe – it worked great! (3 tsp ground flax seed or flax seed meal to 1/4 cup boiling water for each egg, let stand 5 minutes).

    Thanks for sharing this information Marcia. I’ve used flax seed as egg substitute before but have not tried muffins.

  10. 11
    Madhu / Ruchii Says:
    March 2nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Muffin looks great and moist. I am very tempted to try this..

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