Jackpot makes Vegan Whole Wheat Spelt Chocolate Chip Muffins

Hello dear readers!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and that you soaked up some of that sunshine that came about on the weekend. I think I had a little bit too much sun on Saturday and am now sporting some severe sunburn marks resembling the colour of cooked lobster. I think I’ll stick to the shade for now ;p

After a weekend of eating to celebrate my last birthday in my 20′s which included one or two food comas, I thought I’d share a new recipe with you since I haven’t posted a recipe in a while. I’ve been experimenting with vegan muffins and vegan chocolate chips and wanted to make the perfect combination of a nutritious and hearty breakfast muffin but utilising some sweetness from some vegan chocolate chips I bought not long ago.

VEGAN WHOLE WHEAT SPELT CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of whole wheat spelt flour
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda
• 1/2 tsp of baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 1-2 tsps of cinnamon
• 3/4 cups of almond milk (or any other type of soy milk)
• 1 tbsp of apple cider vinegar (to make a vegan buttermilk)
• 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup of pure maple syrup
• 1/3 cup of coconut oil melted
• 1/2 cup of mini vegan chocolate chips

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Line a muffin pan with muffin liners or lightly oil a muffin pan if you are making the muffins without the liners and set aside.
3. Combine all your dry ingredients together in a large bowl: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and then set aside.
4. In a smaller bowl, create your vegan buttermilk by adding the apple cider vinegar to the almond milk. Let it sit for a few minutes until it curdles.
5. Add in the rest of the wet ingredients to the vegan buttermilk mixture: pure maple syrup and melted coconut oil.
6. Mix the wet ingredients together and then pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients bowl. Be careful not to overmix the batter.
7. Fold in the mini vegan chocolate chips into the batter.
8. Fill each muffin cup about 3/4′s full using an ice cream scoop or large spoon.
9. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until the muffin tops have browned slightly. I baked mine for 20 minutes as the muffins seemed to brown more quickly.
10. Once the muffins have baked, cool the muffins on a wire rack.
11. Enjoy!

I was really happy with how this recipe turned out, the muffin was slightly sweet from the hint of maple and the chocolate chips and the spelt flour gave it a nutty taste which I quite liked. A great on the go snack or something to have for breakfast when you don’t know what to eat.

I have been making a few variations of this muffin using mashed bananas for added moisture and sweetness which I have found works really well.

Definitely a recipe I will keep working on and experimenting with until I find the perfect balance but this experiment didn’t turn out too badly!

So readers, until next time!

x

Jackie