Blueberry corn muffins

[miss_pryss]

For rossetti.

Priss's tasty vegan blueberry corn muffins

1 1/4 cup white flour
3/4 cup yellow corn meal
1 Tbsp baking powder (I use non-aluminun)
1 pinch salt
~1/4 cup white sugar (to taste)

1 cup soy milk
1 cup apple sauce (unsweetened -- I use the Mott's "natural" variety)

2 cups blueberries (I buy them frozen and defrost them to room temperature before adding them to the batter)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and grease muffin tin or set up muffin papers. I use PAM!!! (And a cheap teflon muffin tin.) Separately mix dry ingredients together and wet ingredients together, then combine dry, wet, and berries all at once and stir only until everything's just damp. (Since these things are vegan and lack eggs it's really important that the baking powder is given every chance to puff.) Pour into muffin tin and bake for 15 minutes.

These were a little squashy in the middle 10 minutes after I pulled them out of the oven, but they set up nicely and were just perfect a few hours later. And it's true, I'm discovering, that applesauce really is an effective substitute for eggs and oil.

Comments

[rossetti.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My big problem with most quickbreads is the amount of oil that the recipes call for. I love my mom's zucchini bread, but it calls for a cup of vegetable oil. That's a lot of oil! I don't mind eggs, but it's always good to hvae some non-oily recipes. Also - I have a GIGANTIC bag of frozen bleuberries from Costco, so this is perfect.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

A lot of muffin recipes call for tons of oil/butter too; I often leave a quarter cup of oil in the recipe because I think it makes the flavors seem richer. But it's certainly not necessary, so when I'm feeling health-conscious I leave it out. But you might try your mom's zucchini bread with only a quarter cup of oil and see how it turns out -- it may be that the recipe really requires that much shortening, but it may just taste slightly blander.

Speaking of which, I'd love to see your mom's zucchini bread recipe -- I've been meaning to try my hand at zucchini bread but I lack a good base recipe for my psycho veganizing experimentation.