Vegan Double Chocolate Muffins
Vegan double chocolate muffins - these indulgent jumbo muffins are one for serious chocolate lovers! They are soft and fluffy with a rich chocolate flavour and plenty of chocolate chips. Easy to make and perfect for snacks and lunchboxes.
Servings 8 large muffins
Ingredients
- 225 g (1 ¾ cups + 1 Tablespoon plain (all-purpose) flour
- 60 g (½ cup + 1 Tablespoon) cocoa powder
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- pinch salt
- 180 ml (¾ cup) unsweetened non-dairy milk (I use soy)
- 120 g (½ cup) plain non-dairy yogurt (I use soy)
- 120 ml (½ cup) neutral oil (I use olive)
- 180 g (1 cup) light brown soft sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vinegar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 225 g (1 + ⅓ cups) chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan/425°F/gas mark 7. Line a 12 hole muffin tin with 8 muffin cases. (Or you can just grease the tin if you have a good non-stick one).
- Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a large bowl.
- In a separate jug whisk together the milk, yogurt, oil, sugar, vinegar and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Pour the wet ingredints into the dry and stir with a balloon whisk until no dry streaks remain, a few small lumps is fine. Be careful not to over-beat the batter.
- Gently fold in the chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter between the muffin cases, filling them right to the top. An ice cream scoop is handy for this.
- Bake for five minutes then turn the oven down to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/gas mark 4. Bake for a further 18-20 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean (avoiding any chocolate chips).
- Allow the muffins to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack and leave to cool completely. Once cold store in an airtight container.
Notes
- See post above for tips, details and step-by-step photos.
- All of my recipes are developed using grams, and as with all of my baking recipes I really do recommend using the metric measurements with a digital scale rather than the cup coversions. Cups are a wildly inaccurate measuring system and you will get far better, more consistent results using a scale, not to mention that it is also easier and less messy than cups!