These Simple Vanilla Muffins are vegan and so easy to make. Vanilla flavored and so soft you will love them.
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Why you will love this recipe
- Texture and Flavor: These Simple Vanilla Muffins are soft, moist and tender with just enough natural sweetness from the vanilla and it’s a comfort food you can share with family and friends.
- 9 ingredients: You only need 9 ingredients to make this easy vanilla muffins recipe and you might have it all on hand already.
- Easy Recipe: To make this vanilla muffins recipe, simply mix or whisk together the ingredients, load a muffin tin and bake, it’s the easiest thing to have some homemade tasty vegan vanilla muffins ready.
- You’d never know they’re vegan: This is the best vanilla muffins recipe and it's actually a vegan muffin, it’s a deliciously soft, moist vanilla muffins recipe that’s incredibly tasty and best of all no one will even know it’s vegan.
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Ingredients
Be sure to take a look at the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and quantities to make these Simple Vanilla Muffins.
- Oat Milk and Apple Cider Vinegar: These two combined gives a "buttermilk" affect to the vegan vanilla muffins. Although it won't be as thick as traditional buttermilk because I went lighter on the ACV to avoid having the taste come through, but it still helps to create the affect in these simple vanilla muffins.
- Vanilla: I used two teaspoons, it gives a nice mild vanilla flavor which I like, but if you are wanting a strong vanilla muffins flavor be sure to check the recipe card notes on increasing the vanilla extract.
- Apple Sauce: Make sure it's unsweetened natural.
- Vegan Butter: I have used Miyokos and Earth Balance. Both are great but with Miyokos be sure all the ingredients are room temp to avoid mixing cold ingredients with the melted butter because Miyokos has coconut oil in it and it will harden when it comes in contact with cold ingredients.
- Flour: I have only used unbleached organic all purpose white flour, I have not tried any other flour with this recipe.
Variations
- Vanilla Glaze: Truthfully, these are the best vanilla muffins with the perfect taste just as they are, but I understand if a glaze topping on these Simple Vanilla Muffins will make the muffins feel completed for you feel free to add a glaze. I’d stuck with a thin vegan icing glaze for the topping.
- Make it Mini Muffins: These moist vanilla muffins can easily be made into mini vanilla muffins if you’d like a smaller size muffin, but you’ve got to have a mini pan for muffins or cupcakes, they will bake up faster than the full size muffins. Be sure to check them after 12 minutes and than slowly add baking time, I’d check the muffins by inserting a toothpick in the center of one to check for doneness.
- Chocolate Chips: Yes you can easily add some vegan chocolate chips to this Simple Vanilla Muffins recipe, it’ll add a rich chocolaty flavor, turning these muffins into vanilla muffins with chocolate chips.
- Add a little crunch: This recipe for vanilla muffins is not crunchy at all, but if you’d like to add nuts like hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, pistachios or cashew or any of your favorite nuts feel free to add, it will definitely change the texture by adding a crunch to these easy vanilla muffins, they will still taste great. I would chop the nuts up before adding.
- Ice cream Vegan: If you set one of these plain vanilla muffins in a bowl and add some homemade vegan ice cream right on top it adds to the texture and taste of this tastes amazing muffin.
How to make these Simple Vanilla Muffins
Step 1: Prep: Grease 7 muffins holes and pre heat the oven to 375° F. Add the oat milk and apple cider vinegar to a small bowl and set aside for for 5 minutes.
Step 2: In a large mixing bowl add all the wet ingredients, oat milk and ACV mixture, melted butter (be sure to melt in the microwave first), apple sauce, sugar and vanilla and whisk together.
Step 3: Next fold in the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, salt and don't over mix just fold together until combined.
Batter!
Step 4: Pour the muffin batter into 7 greased muffin holes (add a sprinkle of sugar on top each one if desired)and place on the middle rack in the oven for 22 minutes.
Expert Tips
- Add a Drink: This basic vanilla muffins recipe tastes amazing, but add a glass of homemade oat milk or almond milk and you’ll want to add another muffin to your treat time.
- Double it up: This Simple Vanilla Muffins easy recipe will make 7 muffins, it’s extremely easy to double this recipe which will give you 7 more muffins to enjoy.
- Storing: These moist vanilla muffins can be stored at room temperature for 2-3 days in a sealed container on the counter, refrigerator for 5-7 days or put them right into the freezer in an airtight container and they’ll last for 2-3 months, than just let them thaw out in the fridge overnight.
Recipe FAQs
Muffins can be baked in a cupcake pan, they are actually the same pan just with a different name attached.
Generally cupcakes are sweeter and have more sugar and fat in the recipe, where muffins usually have less sugar and has less fat in the recipe. But it depends on the ingredients added to the muffin or cupcake recipe which one would be better for you. Reading the ingredients in each is the best way to know which one is better or healthier.
A muffin is basically a form of quick bread, while a cupcake is said to be a cake and generally has more sugar added to it making it sweeter.
No a muffin is not the same as a cupcake. Generally a cupcake has more sugar, is a fluffy batter and a soft, spongy texture, muffins generally have less sugar and are a moist and dense texture, but read the ingredients of each because it depends on the recipe followed when making the muffin or cupcake.
More Vegan Muffin Recipes
Simple Vanilla Muffins
Ingredients
- ½ cup oat milk (Unsweetened - 120 ml)
- ½ teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- ¼ cup melted vegan butter (measure then melt - 57 grams)
- ⅓ cup unsweetened natural apple sauce (78 grams)
- ½ cup vegan cane sugar (100 grams - plus extra to sprinkle on top)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (3-4 teaspoons for more vanilla flavor- see notes below)
- 1 ½ cups all purpose unbleached flour (188 grams)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Prep: Grease 7 muffins holes and pre heat the oven to 375° F. Add the oat milk and apple cider vinegar to a small bowl and set aside for for 5 minutes.
- In a large mixing bowl add all the wet ingredients, oat milk and ACV mixture, melted butter (be sure to melt in the microwave first), apple sauce, sugar and vanilla and whisk together.
- Next fold in the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, salt and don't over mix just fold together until combined.
- Pour the muffin batter into 7 greased muffin holes (add a sprinkle of sugar on top each one if desired)and place on the middle rack in the oven for 22 minutes.
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