Chocolate Chip Vegan Muffin Recipe

These are super easy and super yummy vegan muffins. No body will be able to tell that these are vegan, and uses no butter or eggs. Despite being Vegan chocolate muffin recipes, these delicious mini cakes are absolutely divine and a sure crowd pleaser.

Cooking With Buckwheat Flour

This recipe is somewhat similar to Nigella’s Buckwheat Cookies that I posted earlier, and even the taste is very similar. Both are very chocolate and rich, and perfect with a cup of tea. However Nigella’s cookies are not vegan, so this muffin recipe is an amazing vegan alternative.

Both recipes use Buckwheat flour, which gives desserts a more earthy tone. And this goes really well with chocolate, it adds a bit of depth and more flavour. When baking a normal sponge, I always add some vanilla and cinnamon to mask the natural flavour of buckwheat. In this way, even vanilla sponge is delicious.

Buckwheat flour is a naturally gluten free flour, and it is suitable for people with a celiacs condition or for people who are consciously trying to cut out gluten in their diet.

In this easy vegan muffin recipe, I have given two options, to cook with buckwheat flour or with regular wheat flour. Only because most people do not have buckwheat flour at home, so you can substitute with normal plain flour.

Vegan Chocolate

I believe it hard to find good quality vegan chocolate. Most chocolates you can find in Dunnes and Tesco are filled with sweeteners, and I feel I am better off having normal dark chocolate as I am not a vegan but trying to increase vegan foods and desserts in my diet.

Majority of chocolate uses dairy which makes it unsuitable for vegan recipes. Some chocolate factories will manufacture chocolate free of dairy but because the manufacturing process uses dairy, they cannot guarantee it is dairy free and thus vegan.

However, there are some good organic health shops around Dublin who sell good quality vegan chocolate such as Dark Chocolate Buttons Organic From the Source. Holland and Barret does dairy free chocolate and certainly there are more online stores to order from, The Irish Vegan lists out all the vegan chocolate available in Ireland.

Recipe

150g buckwheat flour (160g plain flour)

175g sugar

50g cocoa powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

250ml coconut milk (from a can)

125ml oil (vegetable or sunflower)

1 1/2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar

75g vegan chocolate chips

Method

1. Preheat oven to 160C
2. In a larger bowl (or your KitchenAid mixing bowl) mix all dry ingredients such as flour, sugar, coco powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
3. Add coconut milk, oil, apple cider vinegar and using a hand mixer, mix on a low speed. Stop and scrape down sides and mix again until well combined.
4. Add chocolate chips and mix with a spoon until all chips are evenly distributed.
5. Place your muffin or cupcake casings in a muffin tin. Fill the casings half way with the batter.
6. Bake 160C for about 25 minutes. After 25 minutes prick a muffin with a wooden toothpick to see if it is done inside. If the toothpick is doughy, give it another 5 minutes and then remove from oven.
7. Allow the muffins to cool before eating.

What flavours do you offer and how many flavours can I have?

Below is our core range of flavours. You can choose a flavour per tier, max 3 flavours per cake at no additional charge.

• Classic Vanilla Buttercream
• Vanilla Buttercream + Jam
• Refreshing Lemon Cake and Lemon Buttercream
• Indulgent Salted Caramel Buttercream
• Traditional Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Chocolate Ganache
• Chocolate Buttercream
• Citrussy Orange Cake with Orange Buttercream
• Summery Berry Compote with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Divine Biscoff Crunch
• Eve’s Special Carrot Cake with Walnuts
• Chocolate Biscuit Cake
• Spiced Honey Apple Cake

Do you do vegan wedding cakes?

Yes, we do a wonderful range of vegan flavours for vegan wedding cakes. Again you can have a flavour per tier, max 3 flavours per cake. All cakes are made with vegan buttercream, and the cake is made with plant milk. Vegan wedding cakes can look exactly like non-vegan wedding cake in most part.

• Indulgent Salted Caramel Buttercream
• Classic Vanilla Buttercream
• Vanilla Buttercream + Jam
• Divine Biscoff Crunch
• Refreshing Lemon Cake and Lemon Buttercream
• Citrussy Orange Cake with Orange Buttercream
• Chocolate Buttercream
• Red Velvet with Vegan Buttercream
• Spiced Honey Apple Cake

Do you deliver and set up wedding cakes?

Yes, we deliver in Dublin and surrounding areas. We have a delivery schedule in Dublin for celebration cakes each week thus the delivery charge for wedding cake is only €10 or €15 in Dublin D1-D24. Outside of Dublin we calculate the delivery charge based on mileage. In general it is €0.7/km round trip. Often we deliver in the morning (or the night before) and the cake is kept chilled at the venue until the wedding reception starts. In this case we do not set up. However, certain cakes require set up at the venue in that case the set up fee is €25.

Do offer wedding cake tasting boxes?

Yes, we do. You can book one on our website. You can choose 5 flavours from the list. These are available for delivery or collection.

Do you do bespoke wedding cakes, or just the ones on the website.

We make bespoke wedding cakes to suit your imagination, style and the wedding. For bespoke styles you can contact us by contact form or email order@evescakes.ie.   We can also tweak the cakes on the website with a different coloured flowers, ribbon, buttercream etc.

What is the design process for bespoke wedding cakes?

What helps us to design a bespoke wedding cake is understanding the style of the wedding, wedding colours and / or any reoccurring elements in the wedding which can be individual to each couple. But if the couple has a vision of the style desired then we focus on this of course. Inspirations pics, mood boards, flower and bouquet colours / style - all of these can be helpful in the design  process. There is a certain element of seasonality that might be relevant too. We then sketch the wedding cake and discuss the different options with the bride/groom.

Example of a sketch

How to secure the date?

Wedding cakes that are less than 6 months away, we take full payment. If it is a cake from our website then it can be purchased online directly on the website. For cakes more than 6 months away we take a €150 non-refundable deposit. The final payment is due 2 weeks before the delivery date.