Sourdough Red Velvet Muffins
Delicious sourdough red velvet muffins have both goodness of a red velvet and chocolate muffins with extra moistness from the sourdough starter.
Servings: 9 servings
Calories: 205kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup /130g all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup /75g sourdough starter/discard
- ⅓ cup / 35g cocoa powder
- ½ cup + 2 tbsp/ 125g brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon / 1g baking powder
- ½ teaspoon /2g baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup /95g buttermilk
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon 1.5g vanilla extract
- 1 bottle red food coloring (20 drops red food coloring)
- ¼ cup 57g melted butter
- ½ cup 98g chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with liners and set side.
- In a bowl first strain flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda whisk well and set aside.
- In another bowl add melted butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla and mix well. To this add buttermilk and mix once again. Then combine sourdough starter and finally incorporate food coloring. Stir the batter just until combined. Then fold in chocolate chips.
- Transfer the batter into prepared muffin tin and bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool the muffins before serving.
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Notes
This is mildly sweet red velvet muffins, if you want sweeter muffins use ¼ cup/50g granulated sugar along with brown sugar in this recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 205kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 232mg | Potassium: 102mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 270IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 1mg
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