vegan choc-choc cherry muffins

The other day I wanted to bake but there were no ingredients except cherries and tofu. So I gave it a shot at vegan muffins. I think they turned out pretty goof for a first shot. I quickly searched the net for how one would go about for a vegan version of muffins and I ended up with a mixture of tofu, oil and water. It may sound strange to use tofu for baking sweet goods, but it worked out surprisingly well. I ended up with 10 muffins – and filled up each mold completely. I believe these ones work very well with any fruit – but cherries and chocolate are definitely worth a try! They taste interestingly different. Well worth a try. I will definitely try more vegan muffin recipes soon.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• ⅛ tsp salt
• 30 g tofu
• 3 tbsp oil
• 3 tbsp cocoa powder
• 50 g sugar
• ¾ cup water
• 1 cup cherries, pitted
• 50 g semi sweet chocolate, chopped, or chocolate use chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 180°C / 355°F and prepare a standard muffin dish.
Roughly chop the chocolate, or, if using chocolate chips, just set them aside. Add ¼ cup of the flour to the cherries and carefully mix, so they are all covered by a bit of flour. This will make it easier to
fold them under the dough later on. Mix the rest of the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder and put into a mixing bowl. In a blender stir together tofu, water and oil, then pour into the flour mixture. You can also use a fork if you do not own a blender. Use your stand mixer to stir together the dough quickly. Then, add the chocolate chips and the cherries and just whisk for a few more seconds. Use two tablespoons to pour the dough into the prepared muffin molds. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

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