This is my amazing vegan cornbread made into tasty muffins with plump juicy blueberries added. I recently had a cornbread on vacation with blueberries so I decided to make my popular cornbread recipe as muffins and I’m so glad I did as they’re spectacular. Moist, tender, with a firm yet spongy texture. They’re everything you want in a corn muffin and no one would ever know they’re vegan. Early May is blueberry season here in Florida but you can make these year-round with frozen blueberries too!
I knew I wanted to try and make this without any special egg replacers but eggs add fat and flavor. My original recipe included sour cream that added that element of fat but I also used flax eggs originally and I wondered would just going with sour cream work? I was about to find out and spoiler alert – it totally does! I prefer a thick variety of vegan sour cream but I think a thicker plain vegan yogurt might work as well although I haven’t tested it. I also originally used cream of tartar and it worked well as a leavening agent but I know most didn’t have it in their pantry so I swapped it out to traditional baking powder but also added a pinch of baking soda to help with browning and to offset the acidic nature of the sour cream.
After researching hundreds of recipes I also found out that vegetable oil and not melted butter would be the better choice to use because oil doesn’t contain water like vegan butter does. I also came to find that contrary to rational thought, more oil won’t make the cornbread moister it will just wind up making it greasier so only 1/4 cup was needed here since we also have fat from the sour cream for tenderness.
Since I wanted these cake-like and sweet I would have used cake flour for a more refined texture but since most don’t normally have that on hand we’re adding a little cornstarch to lighten things up and keep with the corn theme. These bake in a hot oven and they all can vary. I use a convection oven so things tend to bake faster. If these start to brown too quickly, you can always place a piece of aluminum foil loosely over the top of the muffins so that they don’t burn.
This batter is so easy to assemble. You just whisk the dry ingredients together then do the same with the wet then fold the dry in and mix just until combined. Fold in blueberries then just pour the batter into your prepared muffin pan, sprinkle some sugar on top and bake. So simple even kids will love to make this recipe. In fact, this would be the perfect recipe for kids to try who are interested in baking!
I hope you enjoy these corn muffins as much as we do. They’re great on their own but also good slathered with vegan butter. Enjoy!
Yum. I’ve made these twice-first time recipe as written. The second time I didn’t have the v sour cream so I subbed 50/50 vegan Greek yogurt and vegan cream cheese and they came out great.
Great substitutes! Thanks so much for letting me know and the kind review!