These vegan chocolate muffins are so deliciously moist, intensely chocolaty and downright delicious that they’ll knock your socks off! Seriously. And nobody will ever guess they’re vegan unless you tell them. They’re very quick and easy to make too.
This is one of the first recipes I tried veganising and they came out perfect the first time, straight off the bat! I must admit I was very surprised because there were no less than 5 ingredients that I had to substitute with vegan alternatives. That’s a lot. But luck was on my side for once. Even the photos came out fairly decent and I didn’t have to retake any. Well, they’re not perfect but I think you can see from the photos how delicious these muffins are!
If you want to transform these chocolate muffins into a showstopping dessert, make a hot cherry sauce or a hot berry sauce and pour it over each muffin just before serving! Chocolate and cherries or berries go so well together – your guests will be floored! Hot cherry and hot berry sauces are super quick and easy to make, and if they’re not in season you can make them with frozen cherries or berries.
My daughter came home from school one day with a chocolate muffin recipe that a friend had given her. She made them of course and they were an instant success, which thrilled her to bits. It was one of the first recipes that I veganised and it’s definitely a recipe worth sharing!
So here I am, writing my first post for something sweet for my new blog. Well, I have something to confess. I’m a bit embarrassed to tell you this, but… well, I don’t like sweet things very much. In fact, if I eat too much sweet stuff, I end up feeling sick. By too much I don’t mean a whole cake, I mean I slice or two. I’ve been that way all my life. I won’t hold back if there’s a bag of crisps open and I won’t stop until they’re all gone (that’s why I never buy them). I love savoury things! But desserts…
I was probably one of the weirdest kids ever. I mean, kids adore sweets. Not me. Growing up in England in the 60s, my mum used to make super delicious meals. I loved them. I would get home from school, walk into the kitchen and immediately know what was for dinner from the aromas wafting around the house. In those days we didn’t have the enormous variety of dishes that we have today. Mum had a repertoire of tried and tested recipes, handed down from one generation to the next. So it was pretty easy to guess what was for dinner. My mum was a great cook, fortunately. Most of my friends weren’t that lucky. She went on a World Cookery course and learnt to make the most amazing dishes.
After dinner there was dessert. By the time it appeared on the table, I was already blissfully full. In those days, there was no question of whether you wanted it or not, or whether you even liked it. What was put on the table, you ate. Full stop. So after a wonderful dinner, I had to force down a dessert. Those days are long gone, but even today I rarely order a dessert at a restaurant.
My kids grew up deprived – they rarely got to eat sweet things because I never made any. I never walked down the biscuit and chocolate aisle at the supermarket. As soon as they were old enough, they used to sneak out and go and spend their pocket money on sweets and stuff from the local shop! Smarties, Twix, Snacketti hearts and other goodies (well, goodies to them at any rate, haha).
Consequently, my culinary skills at making desserts are sadly lacking I’m sorry to say. I do have a few signature desserts that I really enjoy making and eating from time to time, though, and these chocolate muffins are one of them!
My blog is very new so there’s not much content on here at the time of writing. But I have hundreds of recipes in pdf that I can’t wait to upload and share with you. Over a period spanning more than four decades, I’ve collected recipes from all the places I’ve visited, guessing the ingredients and method when folks don’t want to give away their secrets, which is most of the time, and I love being inventive in the kitchen and writing my own recipes. It’s always been a dream of mine to write my own cookbook.
Since the beginning of 2020, I’ve veganised practically all my recipes. 95% of them are savoury of course, but I promise to deliver something really delicious stuff in the desserts category from time to time!! I make great vegan ice creams by the way! And rhubarb crumble! Not to mention my raw vegan cheesecakes…
How to make vegan chocolate muffins
These vegan chocolate muffins are very quick and simple to make.
In the recipe card at the bottom of this post, you’ll find an ingredient list with exact quantities and step-by-step instructions with photos.
I hope you enjoy these chocolate muffins as much as we do!
If you do make them, drop me a line or leave a comment below – I’d love to hear from you!
chocolate muffins
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minutesIngredients
160 g all-purpose plain white flour
30 g unsweetened organic cocoa powder
1 pinch salt (omit if using salted butter)
8 g baking powder
125 g brown demerara sugar (fine grind)
50 g good quality dark vegan chocolate
60 g vegan butter
1/2 ripe banana
125 g/ml soya milk
Directions
- Sift the flour, cocoa powder, salt (if using) and baking powder into a bowl.
- Add the sugar and mix all the dry ingredients together.
- Break the dark chocolate up into pieces and put them into a small saucepan. Melt the chocolate and vegan butter together on a very low heat.
- Mash the banana with a fork until smooth and creamy. Add the soya milk and stir.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
- Add all the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well with a wooden spoon or a manual hand whisk. If the mixture is still lumpy after mixing, use an electric whisk but don’t whisk it longer than is absolutely necessary.
- Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases.
- Bake the chocolate muffins in the centre of the oven (on a solid rack – not a grid) at 165 ºC for 25 – 30 mins.
