So I graduated from Columbia on the 17th but I’m finishing my last eight credits (as well as holding down an internship at Time Out Chicago’s Eating and Drinking guide- woot) starting tomorrow. I’m taking nutrition (I’m hoping to learn that eating cake and ice cream all day is, in fact nutritious,) photography and PR writing.
Where I was going with this bit about school is that my first class starts at 8:30am. Teno’s up at 5am most mornings, so by 8 I’m already thinking about lunch. So I’m packing the most giant, hilarious lunch in the world including but not limited to a Tofurkey and Smart Bacon sandwich, pretzels, carrots and hummus and these yummy vegan lemony lemon poppy seed muffins. I will probably also pack some sort of chocolate and a bottle of water.
The other day I bought a bunch of organic limes and lemons and spent about 45 minutes juicing and zesting them all. I always want to make really citrusy muffins and scones but I hate going to the gross produce market by my house so I thought ahead this time. We had Leek and Bean Cassoulet with Biscuits from Veganomicon for dinner, and that shit took me ALL day to make so I was very happy to only spend five minutes throwing these together. They will sustain my life for approximately 30 minutes tomorrow, but whatever. I froze half the batter in cupcake liners so I can make more next week when I have class again.
This recipe is based on the one in Vegan with a Vengeance, but I’ve found that citrus-based recipes are never as lemony or limey or grapefruity as I had my heart set on, so I pumped up the juiciness with some additions.
Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
By Published: May 28, 2008
So I graduated from Columbia on the 17th but I'm finishing my last eight credits (as well as holding down an internship at Time Out …
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups ap flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 Tbs baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 3/4 cup non-dairy milk
- 6 oz lemon flavored vegan yogurt or plain, if you can't find lemon
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp lemon oil
- 1 Tbs poppy seeds
- 1 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 5 Tbs lemon juice
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees and spray your muffin pan with non-stick spray. You could also use cupcake papers, but those make muffins a little too soggy in my snotty opinion.
Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the oil, soy milk, yogurt, vanilla, and lemon oil. Stir the zest into the wet ingredients.
- Fold the wet ingredients into the dry, adding the poppy seeds half way through mixing. This is a sticky, lumpy batter. be OK with that. don't try to make it smooth, just mix it til it's mixed and step away. Unless you like to eat rocks, then by all means, beat it tl it's smooth.
- Fill each muffin cup, I did it all the way because these don't rise all that much. Bake 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Then you can either eat one right out of the pan like I did, and then say "ss haa," which means "it's hot" in Mouth-full-of-food-ese. Or you can whisk the powdered sugar and lemon juice in small bowl until smooth and spoon the lemon glaze over the warm muffins.
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I’m with you on the citrus thing. I always end up adding at least twice the called for amount of lemon, lime or whatever to all recipes.
i LOVED that damn cassoulet. next time, though less leeky and more potatoe and carrot-y for me.
I’ve been too lazy to make that cassoulet! The muffins look damn good though.
You BETTER find a healthy excuse to eat cake! You’re a smart girl, you’ll figure it out. Also, maybe once you become a Press Release guru, you can help me write one for my Etsy shop. 🙂
Mmmm. These are aamaaazing! I substituted some (about 1/3) whole wheat pastry flour for all-purpose and applesauce for the soy yogurt (b/c I didn’t have any on hand). I also doubled the batch and got a dozen fairly large muffins and a dozen half-size (mini silicone cups). Even the non-vegans in my house liked them. (Although they’re getting used to eating vegan stuff. I think I need to find new guinea pigs…)