Vegan Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins

I hope you won’t get too sick of strawberry recipes if I go overboard this spring.  Strawberries are my favorite fruit and when they’re in season, I can’t help but put them in everything!  Yes, this I have other strawberry muffin recipes on this site (like this Yogurt Strawberry Banana Muffin recipe and this Double Chocolate Strawberry Baked Oatmeal Muffin Cups recipe), but one more healthy muffin recipe never hurt anyone, right?

Meghan is constantly requesting that I make her favorite muffin recipe, these Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins.  When she requested them last week, I decided instead of using orange, which is more of a winter fruit, I’d go for strawberries.  I hoped to create another great, healthy muffin recipe that she’d love just as much.  It definitely worked! She said she might like these Vegan Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins even more than her beloved Orange Chocolate Chip muffins.

Why did I make this version vegan?  Sometimes the answer is as simple as I didn’t have enough eggs.  I’ve been working on a recipe that uses six eggs and my boys eat eggs almost every day, so I decided these muffins would go without eggs.  I rarely use dairy in my muffin recipes, so take out the eggs and you have a vegan muffin.

It took three tries to get this recipe just right, but it was worth the effort.  In my second attempt, I wanted to make one little tweak, but in the end I also forgot to add the oil.  I wasn’t laughing at the time, but now I realize it was a bit of a happy accident.  The muffin recipe is definitely better with the oil, BUT if you are watching calories/fat/whatever and want to skip the oil, it works.  Be warned:  the texture and flavor aren’t as good.  But it does work.  No substitutions necessary.  I just plain forgot it and left it out.

These Vegan Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins are moist, sweet, and absolutely delicious.  Yet they are made with whole grains, no refined sugar, and are vegan.  You’re going to love these!  

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