Himself informed me at the weekend that this week is, in fact, National Chocolate week. Every week seems to be National something week but chocolate is something to celebrate right? (Well actually no, I’m a freak who doesn’t like chocolate, it makes me cough. It used to make my nan cough, but we all thought she was mad. Now I have turned into her. She also used to have days when her legs “didn’t work”. Again we laughed and again I get days like that.)
Moving on.
So Himself asked if I could make chocolate muffins. I thought I would experiment with a different recipe. I have heard that mixture of white vinegar and orange juice works as a raising agent instead of eggs. So I tried it. It raises alright. It just doesn’t cook.
Himself valiently ate the crispy bits and put the rest in the compost. And I went back to a tried and tested recipe with added chocolate. I’ll give you that one. Avoid vinegar and orange juice.
Sift 6oz/175g self raising flour into a bowl and add 1.5oz/40g of sugar and 2oz/50g cocoa powder.
Stir in 8fl oz/250ml soy milk and 20z/50g melted vegan margarine.
Stir the soy milk in slowly checking for the right consistency. You may need a little more, you may need a little less.
Finally, the most important thing, stir in about 2oz/50g plain chocolate chips
Then pop your mixture into muffin cases and bake for 30 minutes at 180/350/Gas Mark 4.
That’s better!
(apologies for rubbish photography – by the time I finally managed to get something decent cooked it had gone dark and the artificial light in this house is beyond awful – make your own muffins if you want to see what they really look like!)
I love chocolate but it does make my throat itch sometimes if I eat too much at a time. BTW do you have a good vegan cookie recipe? something that can be rolled and cut with cookie cutters? I’ve tried some recipes and they just never turn out good.
@ Nikki – I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe coming soon but it isn’t one that you cut with cookie cutters as I tend not to make cookies that way. However also soon there will be a gingerbread extravaganza and that involves cookie cutters
Poor muffins! I’ve never heard of the vinegar-OJ trick before, apparently for good reason.
Instead of eggs, I normally use ground flaxseeds or Ener-G powdered egg replacer (which I think is basically potato starch). That second batch looks lovely, though! Glad you did not have to go muffin-less.