Vegan Gingerbread Muffins
Vegan gingerbread muffins - these easy eggless muffins are super soft, moist and fluffy with a rich spiced treacle (molasses) flavour. They are great any time of year but especially good around bonfire night and Christmas!
Servings 8 muffins
Ingredients
- 115 g (½ cup) neutral oil (I use olive)
- 180 g (½ cup) black treacle or molasses
- 90 g (6 Tablespoons) unsweetened non-dairy milk (I use soy) hot
- 160 g (⅔ cup) plain soya yogurt
- 125 g (½ cup + 2 Tablespoons) light brown soft sugar
- 1 Tablespoon vinegar
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 300 g (2 ½ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- demarera sugar for sprinkling
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 ideally space them across two muffins trays if you have an extra one).
- Whisk together the oil, treacle and hot milk in a large bowl until well combined then whisk in the yogurt, sugar and vinegar.
- Whisk in the ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda followed by the flour. Be careful not to over-beat the batter, just mix it until no streaks of flour remain.
- Divide the batter between the muffin cases, filling them right to the top. An ice cream scoop is handy for this. Sprinkle the tops with demarera sugar.
- Bake for five minutes then turn the oven down to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/gas mark 4. Bake for a further 15-20 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- 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.
- USE SCALES. As with all of my baking recipes I really do recommend using the metric measurements with a digital scales rather than the cup conversions. 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!