Vegan Lemon Poppyseed Muffins
 
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Recipe by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, from The 30 Day Vegan Challenge.
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Serves: 12 to 16 muffins
Ingredients
  • 3 tablespoons ground flaxseed
  • ½ cup + 1 tablespoon water
  • 3 cups all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1¼ cups organic granulated sugar
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons lemon zest (from the 3 lemons you use for the juice below)
  • 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 15-ounce can full-fat regular coconut milk
  • ⅓ cup fresh lemon juice (from 3 lemons)
  • ¾ cup canola oil or melted dairy-free margarine, such as Earth Balance
  • 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 350ºF and lightly grease 12 to 16 muffin cups.
  2. In a blender or food processor or in a bowl using an electric hand mixer, whip the flaxseed and water together, until you have a thick and creamy consistency. The result should be rather gooey. This can all be done by hand, but a food processor/hand mixer does a better job in about 1 minute.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon zest, poppy seeds, and salt.
  4. Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients, then add the flax eggs, coconut milk, lemon juice, oil, and vanilla extract, and stir mix until smooth, about 1 minute.
  5. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared muffin cups (about 2 tablespoons each). If you’ve already oiled all of the cups of the muffin tin but don’t fill all of the cups with batter, add a small amount of water to each cup that doesn’t contain batter. Baking an empty, greased cup makes for hard cleanup!
  6. Bake the muffins for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Recipe by Go Dairy Free at https://www.godairyfree.org/recipes/vegan-lemon-poppyseed-muffins