vegan panettone muffins
These panettone style muffins are a slightly simplified version of the traditional recipes. Yet they taste quite close the original and are vegan and nut free if you use vegan butter instead of cashew butter.
Servings 12 mufins
Ingredients
- 340 g flour
- 50 g coconut or fine brown sugar *
- 40 g apple sauce
- 100 g cashew butter **
- 25 g fresh yeast
- 30 g orange peel ***
- 30 g lemon peel ***
- 80 g raisins unsulfurated
- 1/2 Tsp orange zest freshly grated
- 1/2 Tsp lemon zest freshly grated
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup (240ml) plantmilk (I used soy)
- shaved almonds optionally for topping, leave out if you cannot eat nuts
Instructions
- Gently warm milk over low heat in a small saucepan together with the yeast. Stir until the yeast is completely dissolved, making sure that the mixture doesn't boil. Before moving on, let the milk rest for a few minutes until the yeast starts to form little bubbles on the surface.
- Mix flour, butter, apple sauce, sugar, salt, zests and the milk-yeast mixture in a mixing bowl. Do it by hand or with the dough-kneading attechments of your hand mixer.
- When everything is combined, add the peels and raisins and mix for 10-15 minutes. Form a ball, put it into a bowl dusted with flour, cover with a kitchen towel and let rest for 1h in a warm spot (I left it in the oven, just with the lights turned on).
- After that 1h the dough should have doubled in size. Knead it a few more times and divide it into 12 equal sized balls.
- Put the dough balls into a lined muffin tray, cover again and let rest for another 20 min. in a warm place.
- Preheat the oven to 200C. Brush the risen dough balls with plant milk, sprinkle on some shaved almonds and bake for 15-20 min. until golden. Enjoy!
Notes
* These muffins aren't too sweet, which is perfectly fine in my opinion. However, if you'd like them to be sweeter, use half of the amount of sugar in addition.
**If you want to make these muffins nut free or buttery soft, then vegan butter is the better option. Just use 70g (vegan) butter instead of the cashew butter. I just want to note that the dough is a bit trickier to handle, but also fluffier!
***Not to be confused with zests. Orange- and lemonpeels are like little dried chunks of the citrus fruits.