These muffins come out very moist and creamy, which is down to the peanut milk. I made a pint of it last night specifically for these.
If you like the taste of Reese’s Pieces, you will love these muffins! The peanut milk compliments the chocolate much more than my usual oat milk, and it brings back some of those candy flavors we usually can no longer taste as vegans. Using peanut milk is also much more healthy than using peanut butter.
1 cup peanut milk
3/4 cup vegan spread
2 tsp of vanilla essence
3/4 cup of unrefined caster sugar
150g bar of vegan milk chocolate
100g bag of dark chocolate chips
1 cup of rice flour
1 cup of oat flour
2 tsp of xanthan gum
1 tsp of baking soda
2 1/2 tsps of baking powder
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit)
Mix the peanut milk, vegan spread and vanilla essence together.
In a separate bowl mix the rice and oat flours with the xanthan gum, baking soda, baking powder and sugar.
Mix the wet and dry ingredients together with a wooden spoon before adding the chocolate chips.
Melt the vegan milk chocolate in the microwave and then fold into the mixture.
Line a 12 muffin tin with cases.
Spoon in the muffin batter.
Place in the oven for 20 minutes (rotating tin after 10)
Let cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack where they will cool for a further 10 minutes.
Enjoy digging into these yummy muffins-they go well with coffee in the morning or tea in the afternoon.
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July 15th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I love the pics! So cute! Peanut Milk, still don’t know about that. The idea may work for me.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
The pictures look delish…yummmm
July 15th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Very nice too – these are much moister than ordinary muffins and go well with my afternoon cuppa. The peanut flavour is unusual in a cake but I enjoyed it.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
What a wonderful recipe. How or where do you get oat flour?
July 16th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Beautiful pics once again. Peanuts with chocolate are delicious.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
The last pic looks sooo good, nice work
July 17th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Hey good looking muffins
July 17th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
look so so yummy! I want to taste them!
July 17th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Thanks for your comments. I wanted to point out that I only had these jumbo muffin cases on hand, and so it makes the muffins look like they didn’t rise, when they did! I promise! They just look teeny tiny in those giant cases.
Macroman, I make my own oat flour with an attachment on my Kenwood Chef. I got the Kenwood Chef as an early bday present a couple weeks ago, and it is soooo much fun. I couldn’t believe I used to do all that stuff by hand before. I do believe they sell oat flour at most health food stores like Whole Foods.
Jen Jen, the peanut milk is great. I am so happy to have discovered it, I mean I know I didn’t invent it, it is just nice knowing I can make peanut milk instead of using oat milk all the time. It really makes anything I am baking moist and extra yummy!
July 18th, 2009 at 1:57 am
How interesting about the peanut milk. The tops of these muffins remind of those classic chocolate crinkle cookies rolled in powdered sugar.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Dia, those muffins of yours are simply beautiful…love the idea of peanut milk
July 19th, 2009 at 2:34 am
Thank you
July 20th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Hey girl,
you know I’ll always love your cakes.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:34 pm
MMM can’t wait to try them
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
They look delicious.
July 27th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Happy Birthdayyyyyyy!!!!!!
Thanks for telling me about that bad restaurant you ate at. Make sure to write about it here when you get back! Miss ya!
July 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
These are gorgeous! I’m going to have to get (or make!) some peanut milk so I can try this recipe out. Beautiful photography too!