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Vegan Orange Cranberry Muffins
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I have used a lot of dried cranberries while baking but am picky about the fresh ones. So far I have tried only one recipe using fresh cranberries. It is this cranberry bars recipe from the Joy of Baking website. Although it did come out well and tasted good, somehow I did not develop a liking for this beautiful red fruit. I think part of the reason is my quirky food likings. I usually don’t like sweet and sour or sweet and spicy together. A dish has to be either fully sweet or fully spicy. So its obvious that I do not like the combination of tart cranberries and sweet in baked goods. Anyhow I decided to give it a shot once again this cranberry season.
Lately I have been seeing a lot of Indianized cranberry recipes. Cranberry rice, cranberry pickle, cranberry dal, etc. just to mention a few. So I decided to try at least that if at all not baking with cranberries. Recently I also got hooked to the Taste of Home website. I have got a baking book published by that magazine and am a fan for those recipes. I have had a 100% success rate with those recipes. I don’t know what stopped me from visiting their website all these days. A couple of days back I borrowed a Taste of Home Cookies book from the library. It has 623 recipes and I was so tempted to get one for myself. That’s when I decided to check out their website to see if they have free recipes online and I was overjoyed to find the same. I looked for some cranberry recipes in there and bookmarked this cranberry muffins recipe. It was a simple straight forward recipe and the egg substitution was easy too. I decided to use flax seed meal as the egg substitute like I used for the vegan cranberry quick bread recipe and it turned out great.
For the past couple of months I have been incorporating a lot of whole grains and whole grain flours while baking. So I decided to used plain all purpose flour this time. Partly the reason being, my phobia for cranberries. Since I was not sure if I would like cranberries I didn’t want to use whole wheat flour and mess it up further. Surprisingly these cranberry muffins did not fail me. It tasted pretty good with mild sweetness, occasional tartness from the cranberries here and there and a nice crunch from the pecans. I would definitely try this recipe again but would increase the quantity of sugar a little bit.
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- 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 3/4th to 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 cup Chopped Pecans
- 1/3 cup Canola Oil
- 2/3 cup Orange Juice (Freshly Squeezed)
- 2 teaspoons Flax Seed Powder
- 1/2 cup Water
- from 1 orange Orange Zest
- 1 cup Coarsely Chopped Fresh Cranberries
- Preheat the oven at 375F/190C for 15 minutes. Grease or line a muffin tin with paper liners.
- In a large bowl mix together the dry ingredients and keep it aside.
- In a blender/food processor blend together the flax seed powder and water until its nice and frothy.
- Measure orange juice in a liquid measuring mug, add water until you reach 1 cup measure in the mug. To this also add the flax seed mixture, orange zest and stir together well.
- Pour the liquid ingredients to the flour mixture and mix until just moistened. Fold in the cranberries too. Do not overmix.
- Spoon in the batter in the greased muffin tins. Bake for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Move the muffin tin to a cooling rack and let it cool for just 5 minutes. Then remove the muffins from the pan and cool it completely on a wire rack.
- The quantity of sugar mentioned in the original recipe was 3/4th cup and I used the same, but felt that the muffins could have been a little more sweet. So you can increase the quantity to 1 cup.
- I always prefer freshly squeezed orange juice in baking recipes. I have found out in my experience that the store bought orange juice is slightly bitter and the bitterness reflects in the baked goods too.
- If you wish to use frozen cranberries, do not thaw it. Use it directly from the freezer otherwise the berries will start bleeding turning the batter red.
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hi
I tried this reciepe with whole wheat flour
and fresh cranberries and almonds. it came very good my kids
love it. I was wondering what could we use instead of
baking powder. is it possible to bake without it?
what did people do when there was no baking powder in early days
or they did not bake at that time?
Baking powder is a complete mixture that provides both the acid and the alkali needed to produce CO2. This gas is needed for leavining in the batter. Results obtained with baking powder are more reliable than those obtained by use of separate acid and alkali in a recipe. When baking powder is used to supplement the leavening provided by air and steam in fat containing batters, or doughs, the leavening is far greater. You don’t need it for reciepes that use self rising flour because it is already in there. Yeast breads rely on yeast for leavening. I belive baking powder has been around for over a hundred years. Check me on that.
I tried this receipe 3 times. The first time it was good. The second time it was great. My co-workers loved it. I questioned the sweetness, but they all said it was a perfect breakfast muffin with coffee. The third time I tried it with lemon instead of orange. Epic fail. I’ll stick to the original recipe.
Thanks!
You’re welcome Punam. Thanks for letting us know that using lemons did not turn out good.
I used 1 cup of the fresh orange juice, added a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract and omitted the oil. Absolutely amazing muffins! Best vegan muffin I’ve ever had, best muffin i’ve had period!
Thank you very much Megan. Please rate the recipe.
Hello Madhu
Can i use 9 inch springform pan ? I don’t have muffin tin. I would like to try with avocado instead oil. I will let you know.
Thank you
You can try it steven, I guess the baking time will be a little more though. Maybe 20-30 minutes. So keep an eye on it.
Hello Madhu
I tried with one small avocado. the cake came out little dense and little sticky but taste is good. I used all purpose Bob’s Redmills Gluten Free. The ingredients Garbazo beans flour, potato starch, tapioca flour,white sorgum flour and fava bean flour. Do you think little dense and little sticky from Flour or because I don’t use Oil?
Thank you
It could be both, Steven. I have tried neither so I’m not able to tell the exact reason.
I am very thankful to have found this recipe! I had trouble juicing my oranges and gave up on getting the required amount of juice. I peeled several oranges and put the segments into a blender with a little water. A very frothy, pulpy juice emerged. I used this as a replacement for the water and orange juice in the recipe. I also omitted the flax seed.
I had dried cranberies that I chopped up and added to the batter. I was skeptical about the batter raising during baking without eggs or egg replacer, but they were beautiful. The taste was awesome and was even better the next day.
Thank you for this website and my son with egg allergies thanks you! I will be back to try more recipes.
You’re welcome Sheila. You got it right even without the flaxseed meal? That’s great to know.
Hi Is it possible to bake this muffin without using the flax seed powder? Thanks for sharing
Try replacing the flax seed powder and water with 1/2 cup yogurt or buttermilk.