Ingredients

  • 1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 Tbs. baking powder
  • 2 tsp. grated orange peel
  • 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg or mace
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 23 cup soymilk
  • 1/2 cup brown rice malt syrup or pure maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 cup fresh raspberries

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350F.
  • Fill 8 to 10 standard muffin cups with paper liners or coat with vegetable cooking spray.
  • In large bowl, stir together both flours, baking powder, orange peel, nutmeg and salt.
  • In medium bowl, whisk together soymilk, syrup, oil and vanilla until combined.
  • Add soymilk mixture to flour mixture and stir with wooden spoon just to moisten ingredients; do not overmix or muffins will be tough.
  • Gently fold in most of raspberries; reserve a few berries to sprinkle on top.
  • Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling almost to rim.
  • Sprinkle with reserved berries.
  • Fill any empty muffin cups halfway with water (this creates steam for moister muffins and also helps prevent pan from warping).
  • Bake until muffin tops are just firm and golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.
  • Let cool in cups 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.