Vegan Muffins

Hannah, one of the girls that is working with Anna at the moment is Vegan. She is always saying that she can’t find many vegan cake recipes as most cakes contain eggs. We get on well with her and wanted to treat her to some home made cakes so I decided to modify my Oaty Banana Muffins recipe to make them vegan muffins. It didn’t take much modification really. I’d already omitted eggs from the recipe as the mashed banana’s seemed more than capable of filling that role. All that was left to replace was the melted butter with something not from animals. That was easy too. I’m sure just vegetable oil would have been fine but we bought some Trex instead which is a dairy-free butter replacement made from vegetable oil.

Trex

Trex

Other than that, the recipe was just the same and the muffins turned out perfectly. Hannah loved them and can;t wait to make some for herself. The other girls in Anna’s office who all tried one vowed to make some that very night. By the time I went to Anna’s office later int he day I was (affectionately I hope) known as ‘The Muffin man’. News spread fast though and everyone wanted one and the following day Anna was getting emails from people who were off sick saying that they wouldn’t be in but if there were any of Alan’s muffins left he’d have one of them!
Here’s the full amended recipe for my Vegan Banana Muffins.

Ingredients

Vegan Muffins

3 large ripe bananas
150g sugar
75g melted Trex (or 75ml vegetable oil)
150g plain flour
50g porridge oats
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Topping

1 handful of walnuts
1 Tbsp Demerera Sugar
15g melted Trex (or 10ml vegetable oil)

Method

The Muffins

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
  2. Put 12 muffin cases into a muffin tin.
  3. Mash the bananas in a large bowl until they are nothing more than banana puree.
  4. Mix the sugar and melted Trex with the bananas.
  5. Fold in the flour, oats, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Don’t be too fussy here, we aren’t after perfection, just muffins so don’t worry if it’s not that well mixed and a little lumpy.
  6. Spoon into muffin cases in a muffin tin – The mixture should make 12 decent sized muffins.
Ready to bake

Ready to bake

The Topping

  1. Smash up the walnuts into little pieces and place in a small bowl with the demerara sugar.
  2. Add the melted Trex and mix to a walnuty paste

Baking the Muffins

  1. Now just spoon the topping onto the muffins and bake them in a preheated oven at 180ºC for around 20 minutes until they look like this.
Vegan Muffins

Vegan Muffins

3 Responses

  1. Avatar forComment Author Mum says:

    How much fame can one man have lol

  2. Avatar forComment Author Mum says:

    PS, bread pudding works well without eggs too.

  3. Avatar forComment Author Emily says:

    Nice job, they look great!

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Alan Cole

Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.

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