18 Jul Vegan Vanilla Chai Banana Bread Protein Muffins (GF)
I’m excited to share that my recipe was featured on Protein Pow for The 2014 Protein Wizard Competition! Unfortunately, I did not win the competition, but hey, that’s not what’s important. I was happy that I was able to share a delicious G L U T E N – F R E E & V E G A N recipe on a site that only has a few of those types of recipes! <3
What I created were these Vanilla Chai Banana Bread Protein Muffins and served them with a Strawberry Protein Jam. You can sub any type of protein powder you would like in this, but I used the Vega One Vanilla Chai for mine. Enjoy!
Vegan Vanilla Chai Banana Bread Protein Muffins
- Prep Time: 8 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 23 minutes
- Yield: 6-8
- Category: Snack, Dessert
- Cuisine: Vegan
Ingredients
- 1.5 tbsp golden flax meal + 3 tbsp water
- ¾ cup spelt flour
- ¼ cup Vega One Vanilla Chai Protein Powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp stevia **see note**
- 2 medium bananas, mashed
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp ginger
- Pinch of cloves
- Pinch of salt
- Chopped hazelnuts and/or toasted coconut chips (I used Dang)
Instructions
- Mix together the flax meal with water to form “flax-egg”. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a cupcake or muffin pan with coconut oil.
- Process/blend applesauce, banana, flax egg, stevia, vanilla, salt and spices.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, protein powder, baking powder and baking soda.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and mix together. Do not to over-mix!
- Fill your pan ⅔ full of mixture and top with nuts or coconut if desired.
- Bake for about 13-15 minutes.
- Top with protein jam and enjoy!
Notes
I have only tried this recipe using stevia. Adding a sweetener, liquid or dry, with more volume or a different texture may result in a different texture in the resulting muffins.
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Posted at 15:43h, 18 July[…] I created were Vanilla Chai Banana Bread Protein Muffins (GF) and served them with the Strawberry Protein Jam below. You can sub any type of protein powder you […]
Alejandro
Posted at 01:47h, 20 AugustYummy! I do have some deep Chai LOVE! <3 =D
Uni snacks here we come! =D
Quick question if i may: If i leave out protein powder do would i need to sub in other chai flavour booster things? (how much flavour does the powder add? should i up the spices? brew some chai tea?)
And should i just up the spelt flour a bit to compensate for less dry ingredients?
Thank you 🙂
Jasmine Briones
Posted at 21:06h, 21 AugustYay, I hope you try these! You certainly will need to add more dry ingredients to make up for the removal of the protein powder. I have never tried this, so I would just use an equal amount of spelt. The chai has a lot to do with the protein, so what you can do is increase the spices in the batter, and/or add in traditional chai spices! I have actually baked chai cookies by simply emptying out a chai tea bag into the batter. It sounds crazy and that it might be strong but it was perfect with the cookies, so I think it will work with this too 🙂
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