Here comes another amazing vegan recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking. I can assure you that this is the best eggless/vegan blueberry muffins one can bake.
It's as light as an angel food cake made with only egg whites. You can imagine how light that cake would be.
So these eggless blueberry muffins which use vinegar as an egg substitute are also equally light and airy.
I used apple cider vinegar this time and got no aftertaste or smell from the vinegar. I personally feel that white vinegar has an aftertaste and smell.
I have made this vegan blueberry recipe a couple of times with many variations in using different flavors and ingredients, yet the recipe yields perfect muffins every time. I have used lemon zest, orange zest, orange juice, rice milk, and almond milk for flavorings and the liquid portion. I prefer these eggless blueberry muffins with orange flavoring the most.
I have always loved the combination of blueberry and orange. This orange blueberry bread is another best example of how lovely this combination is.
In my early days of venturing into vegan baking, I have used soy milk as a vegan substitute for dairy milk and have always felt that soy milk tends to give a rubbery texture to the baked treat. I don't know if it's just me or if others have felt it too.
That's the reason I have stopped using soy milk and these days mainly use rice milk and almond milk. Bot these non-dairy kinds of milk don't affect the texture.
I have another version of these muffins which uses whole wheat pastry flour, flax meal, maple syrup - healthy vegan blueberry muffins.
How to make vegan blueberry muffins?
Here is the step-by-step pictorial recipe on how to make fluffy vegan blueberry muffins from scratch:
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Recipe
Vegan Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups Unbleached All Purpose Flour (I used bleached)
- 1 and ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Lemon/orange Zest
- ¾ to 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup any non-dairy milk
- ⅓ cup any oil with neutral flavor
- 1 teaspoon vanilla/lemon/orange extract (optional)
- 1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 and ½ cups Fresh OR Frozen Blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F/200C (see My Notes) for 15 minutes. Lightly grease a muffin tin.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and orange zest.
- Combine the sugar, milk, oil, extract, and vinegar in a large bowl. Mix well.
- Add the dry and wet ingredients to stir until just combined. Don't over-stir.
- Gently fold in the berries using a rubber spatula.
- Fill the muffin tins about ⅔rds full.
- Bake at 400F for about 15 minutes, reduce the temperature to 375F and bake for another 7-8 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
- 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.
Taste & Texture
Nutrition
Recipe FAQs
I know that it's easy to get tempted to replace the oil/fat in a baking recipe with applesauce to make it fat-free, but that would result in dense and dry muffins. It won’t be as airy as using oil alone. So I would suggest just replacing half the quantity of oil with applesauce.
Since the acidic content of lemon juice is less when compared to vinegar you might have to double the quantity of vinegar. For example, if a recipe calls for 1 teaspoon of vinegar, use 2 teaspoons of lemon juice.
Lemon zest is nothing but grating the skin of the lemon. Care should be taken so that the inner white sheet from the skin does not peel away because it will be bitter. Lemon extract is like vanilla, and almond extract is in liquid form.
I wouldn't say that it's compulsory, but it will give these blueberry muffins a nice flavor without baking powder. You may choose to use orange zest/extract instead of simply vanilla extract will be good too.
Opening the oven door quite too often while it is baking makes cold air enter the oven and might be the reason for the muffins to sink. Another reason is that you used too much batter for each muffin.
No it doesn’t work like that. You would have to use Xanathan gum. I haven't baked this recipe gluten-free and have read that simply substituting the all-purpose flour with gluten-free flour would not work especially in baked goods that have to rise, like muffins, cupcakes, and cakes. Brownies and cookies should not be that much of a problem to bake gluten-free and can be done without xanthan gum.
Gluten-free and egg free is a lot of trial and error methods only. But some of the readers did mention that they tried this recipe gluten-free using rice flour and gluten-free mix (which already has the xantham gum in it). You may try it at your discretion. I will try to bake a gluten-free version shortly and blog about it soon.
Certainly you can. Just use dairy milk and if you prefer butter, melted butter instead of oil. One of the readers suggested that the muffins turn out better if oil is used instead of melted butter though.
Any oil that has a neutral flavor. Peanut oil, sunflower oil, (refined) coconut oil, avocado oil, etc could work on this homemade vegan blueberry muffins recipe.
You can try it at 350F but bake it a few minutes longer.
Halving the recipe may not work out always. It's again for you to experiment and see. Another option is to bake all the muffins and freeze the remaining and use it later. If you decide to halve the recipe and use a 12-cup pan, then you will have to fill the rest of the cups with little water so that the muffins will bake evenly and doesn’t get dried out.
You can try a flaxseed meal, but I’m pretty sure the muffins won’t be as airy and light as those with lemon and vinegar. You can blend a teaspoon of flaxseed meal with 3 tablespoons of warm water.
There are a couple of reasons for this:
1) If you try to peel off the wrapper while the muffins are still warm
2) If you make it low-fat or fat-free
3) If you don't lightly grease the liners with non-stick cooking spray.
The temperature does not change, but you need to bake it for a shorter time than you would bake regular-sized muffins. Somewhere between 12-15 minutes.
I have explained it in detail here: Why does fruit sink to bottom of the cake?
Rice milk is derived from cooked white/brown rice. You can use any other non-dairy milk like almond milk, oat milk, hemp milk, etc. I personally don't prefer using soy milk because it gives a sticky texture to the baked goods. For vegan baking, my choice is either rice milk or almond milk.
Yes you can use any other berries or fruits of your choice. Or even add-ons like nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruits, etc.
Swetha says
I tried these eggless blueberry muffins with vinegar. I just added 11/2 very ripe bananas in additiion to the recipe above. Instead of 2 cups all purpose i used 1 cup whole wheat and 1 cup all purpose flour. It still turned out awesome. simply superb and moist and fluffy. How can I ever thank you??? Still thanks a ton:-)
You're welcome Swetha. Thank you for trying the recipe.
Nothing Fancy says
I made these muffins last night and they are simply delicious! My son is allergic to eggs. His class at Preschool is having blueberry muffins for snack today and I didn't want him to feel left out, so I found your recipe and tried it. I just know he'll enjoying having the same snack as everyone else. The muffins are so delicious, I see no reason to bake any other kind again! I froze the rest of the batch, so I'll have them on hand to send to preschool with my son. Thank you!
Thank you for trying out the recipe. You should get Joy of Vegan Baking and try the other recipes too. Most of them are pretty straight forward and don't require a trip to specialty stores to buy the ingredients for the recipe.
Gretchen says
These really are unbeleivable and I'm very picky 🙂
I just used lemon juice and left out the zest. I used 2 cups blueberries because I love my muffins loaded!
Thank you!
You're welcome Gretchen and thank you for trying the recipe and for the feedback.
jayasri says
hi, was this the one you wrote about in my blog..., this looks quite delicious, I must try this and see how it goes! and some of the comments are useful to know that you can substitute and do lot of variations as well, this is so interesting...., I must leasurlily sit and go through all your baking recipes 🙂
Vicki says
What a great recipe. The muffins are so light and delicious and they look beautiful. My son has egg, dairy and wheat allergies so I substituted (1) cup white rice flour, (1/2) cup garbanzo bean flour and (1/2) cup tapioca starch for the all purpose flour and they turned out wonderfully. Thank you so much for this fabulous recipe!
Thanks Vicki for the information. It's great to know that this recipe can be made gluten free as well.
Kalyani says
I tried these muffins and they are so moist and wonderful.. Thx much for all your eggless recipes.. 😀
You're welcome Kalyani.
Elizabeth says
Madhuram, thank you SO much for this recipe! I just made a batch of these muffins (I used oat milk) and they are delicious! My three-year-old is devouring one right now. At our house we recently started avoiding eggs/soy/dairy, which makes baking so difficult. I am so thrilled that now I can make muffins for the whole family again. thank you!
You're welcome Elizabeth. Try recipes from the Joy of Vegan Baking, there are a lot of stuff which you can try with good results.
sai says
Thanks madhu for ur immediate response. where do i get the lemon zest by the way.
Hope u are settled and feel at home in ur new place.
Sai, you don't buy it, but make it yourself from the lemon/orange. Simply grate the outer skin of a lemon/orange using a very fine grater. Be careful not to go deep (avoid getting the white layer) because it will be very bitter. Check this video for the how to.
sai says
i dont hv lemon zest. can i use just lemon juice?
Sai you can omit it. I won't recommend using lemon juice as well as vinegar because it would affect the texture of the muffins.
Johnny's Mom says
Sorry about the double post earlier. 😮 Just wanted to let you all know Johnny and i made the muffins this evening.
We did line the muffin tins with papers and used the lemon zest and extract mentioned in the recipe. I used only 3/4 C sugar and the result was absolutely WONDERFUL!! What beautiful muffins they cooked up to be....but even better was the way they taste.The 4 yr old loves them!!! And asked me to hide them from his older brother so he wouldnt eat them all!!Thank you so much again. this recipe is a keeper 🙂
That's ok JM. Thank you very much for the feedback.
Johnny's Mom says
Bought blueberries today..can't wait to make the muffins tonight!
We already use your Chocolate Chip cookie recipe and the whole family loves them! Thank you for the wonderful recipes!! When i bake these goodies its great to know my son is not missing out because of his dairy,egg and nut allergies!
You're welcome Johnny's Mom and thanks as well for the feedback.
Johnny's Mom says
I am so excited to have found this recipe my 4 1/2 yr old keeps asking me for muffins... but he is allergic to dairy, eggs and peanuts. I use your chocolate chip cookie recipe for him all the time and everyone in the house loves them!!
I can't wait to bake these for him and surprise him with them this week.
Thank Madhuram for your wonderful recipes and making my 4 yr old feel like he gets to eat the same wonderful things he sees others eatting! So appreciated 😀
Thank you very much Johnny's Mom. I'm really very glad that your kid need not feel deprived anymore.
Jenna says
I just made these, but I used raspberries, my fav berry, plus I added walnuts as I need the protein ( I am Vegan) so I used soy milk and soy flour. I also used Splenda sweetner in place of sugar (high glucose levels),, They taste delicious,,BUT,,and this has happened to me before with Vegan type muffins,,,; the batter was vey thick, almost a paste, I didnt dare add more milk after it was all mixed. Anyway the appearance is like uneven lumpy dumps,,lol, not the beautiful round, cup cake shape you have! Any hints??
Jenna thanks for trying the recipe. The batter was not as thick as you have mentioned. Maybe soy flour absorbs more moisture than all purpose flour. It's my guess. So try adding 1/4 cup extra liquid while using soy flour next time.
Zankhna says
I tried this recipe and was absolutely satisfied with the results; moist, soft and very flavorful muffins. These are the best eggless muffins I've ever baked. This is a must-try recipe!
Thank you very much for the feedback Zankhna.
Kiran says
Oh, one more thing, I didnt have lemons so I substituted with orange zest and juice. Also added two tbsp more milk as the batter was a little difficult to work with (too thick). Thanks Madhu.. the gorgeous picture made me wanna try baking these.
Thank you very much for the feedback Kiran. I'm so glad that you tried it and liked it. I made one batch with lemon juice and another with orange and liked both.
Kiran says
They are delicious!! YUM! I tried them today and they turned out beautifully. Its so gratifying to see eggless desserts rise like their egg-y counterparts. Yes, I tried the frozen blueberry trick as well. No bleeding there.
Gayatri says
hey Madhuram, love ur recipes 🙂 Thnx for ur comments 🙂 How to register @ FoodWorld?I cudn't find any link in the site.
Gayatri, use the contact page.
Asha says
Happy Women's day sweetie. Arvind has a meeting most of the day today, so I got some movies to watch later.
Yes, hope there is a God to keep all of our young kids safe. He can take people like me instead!! I am scared too but hopefully, incidence like that doesn't happen again at Chapel Hill or anywhere else. Hoping for the best. Anoop says he decided to try new things like taking part in AI after what happened his classmate and realized that life is too short to follow the "norm" and just graduate to get a job. He is doing Master's now.
Enjoy your Sunday. See you next week.