Lili’s Vegan Banana Muffins with Pecans & Dark Rum – Recipes

Makes 12-18 muffins

INGREDIENTS

Dry

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
1½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon allspice

Wet

4 overripe bananas, smashed
¾ cup melted earth balance (or vegetable oil)
2 eggs-worth Ener-g brand egg replacer
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon almond extract
½ dram dark rum

To Finish

½ cup pecans, chopped fine

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375Â°F.

Smash bananas with a fork until smooth (little chunks are fine), then add rum and both extracts to the bananas. In a small sauce pan, melt the vegan margarine on medium heat, stopping as soon as it is fully melted while not allowing it to boil. In a small, separate bowl, prepare you egg replacement mixture, then incorporate into the rest of the wet ingredients. You’ve made the wet mix, HOORAY!

For the dry mix, it’s as simple as mixing everything under the “dry” banner together. Make sure you do so thoroughly and evenly, and you’ll be fine. Next, finely chop the pecans until they resemble tiny pebbles. Do not mix the nuts in with the dry, but reserve them for the final step.

Slowly fold the dry mixture into the wet mixture in a scraping motion, making an effort not to just whip it all together, but instead, allowing for some unevenness. There should be a few tiny stripes of flour visible within the otherwise well-incorporated ingredients – this is how rough you can be, and how important it is not to over-mix. Then, evenly fold in the pecans, and as soon as they’re in there, let the mixture rest. Muffin mixture success!

Line a muffin tin with baking cups, and fill the cups to the very brim with your muffin mix with the biggest spoon in the house – it seems like too much, but it will be just right to get a nice top. Slap those beasts in the oven for 18 minutes, after which point a toothpick inserted into a sample muffin should come out perfectly clean. Sit back and admire your fine handiwork. Devour noisily.