Now you can basically go into any cafe (in London at least) and they will have some sort of vegan cake option. A few years back this wasn’t the case and The Whole Foods Market in High Street Kensington started selling vegan bananas muffins. I was so happy, because I liked them so much. I bought them many times. As a snack or dessert or just because. Haha! They also sell blueberry muffins now and they are even better as they are a combination of both. Nowadays, whenever I’m at Whole Foods I still buy one. Only since I moved out of London, this isn’t that often anymore. But.. I’ve been experimenting and after a few fails, I managed to create a recipe that makes basically the exact same muffin. They are sooo good!
MUFFIN STUFF
Makes: 6
1,5 cup self raising flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup butter (room temp.)
1 ripe banana (smashed)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup blueberries
-Preheat the oven at 180C.
-Mix all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
-Add the butter, the banana and the vanilla extract and mix it well.
-Add the blueberries (keep a few to put on the top later on) and mix them in.
-Divide the mixture over 6 muffin shapes and press some blueberries on the top of each one.
-Put them in the over for about 35-45 min. until they are golden brown.
-Let them all cool down before eating them.
It doesn’t matter if you had the muffins from the Whole Foods Market before or not, go and make these. They are so good! Please show me your results on Instagram, by tagging me or by using #planetmanel. Thank you! X
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FEELING BLUE
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