You can put basically any fruit you want into these muffins. You can use fresh fruit or dried fruit or frozen fruit. Apples, blueberries, cranberries, dates, mangoes…anything goes.

Basic Vegan Fruity Muffins

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1 1/4 cups soy milk
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 Tablespoons vegan yogurt
• 1/2 cup (4 oz) fruit of your choice

Ginger and cardamom go great with most fruits, but feel free to experiment with cinnamon, allspice, fennel, nutmeg, cloves, chili powder, or whatever else takes your fancy.

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 400º F.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and spices.
3. Combine the soy milk, oil, lemon juice, and yogurt in a separate bowl or a large pyrex measuring cup.
4. Pour the liquid mixture into the flour mixture. Stir with a rubber spatula until just mixed.
5. Gently fold in the fruit of your choice.
6. Line a muffin pan with 12 paper cups. Divide the batter evenly between them, filling about 3/4 of the way full.
7. Bake for 20 minutes.

For Glazed Muffins:

• Combine 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 T lemon juice, and 1/2 cup powdered sugar in a ramekin or measuring cup.
• Whisk until all the lumps are gone.
• Drizzle over the muffins once they have cooled.