Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

This recipe used to be one of my favorite recipes to make. And even though the title of the recipe sounds decadent, these muffins are actually not that bad for you. But now I thought I should try and find a way to make these awesome muffins vegan. And I was so close to being successfull...

Ingredients:
2 cups of self-raising flour*
1/3 cup sugar
1 ½ cups dark chocolate bits - It depends how technical you want to get with this. Dark chocolate should be vegan any but sometimes the ingredients will say "made in a plant where products with milk are produced as well". I like to comfort myself and just buy the vegan chocolate from Whole Foods.
1 egg - I substituted 1/2 cup of applesauce since egg is only really used as a binding agent and applesauce works great!!
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
2 tbsp of strawberry jam
2 oz butter, melted - I used 2 oz of vegan margarine, found at your local hip greener- than- thou organic joint like Whole Foods or Trader Joes.
1 cup milk - I used almond milk since it was recommended to use when baking in my Joy of Vegan Baking book but soy milk would work too

(*if you can't find self-raising flour, you can make your own! to each cup of flour you use, add 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt*)

Preheat oven to 350. Brush a 12-hole standard size muffin tin with melted butter or oil.
Sift flour into large owl. Add sugar and chocolate bits; make a well in center. Add combined egg, peanut butter, jam, butter and milk. Stir until just combined. Spoon evenly into every muffin cup. Bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Loosen muffins in the pan and let cool for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.

I was so dang proud of myself for making a non-vegan recipe vegan. As I was cleaning up my mixing bowls and measuring cups I thought I was the bees knees, let me tell you. Until I realized that while I was busy substituting all sorts of things, I forgot to make my non-self rising whole wheat flour into self rising flour. So I got dense little hockey pucks instead of nice scrumptious and fluffy muffins. But I still ate them mind you - there was chocolate in them.