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These Vegan Gluten-Free Pumpkin Spice Latte Muffins or cupcakes with the Coconut Whipped Frosting, are also oil-free and grain-free! They are just 8 easy ingredients.

I’ve been cooking since I was a child. I have always loved to cook, but baking is my love. To this day, I stare at the oven while things are baking and just get giddy as a kid seeing the results and rise before my eyes. The smells that fill up my kitchen are such a wonderful, natural high to me. I have always been a natural traditional baker, but it was becoming a vegan, gluten-free, oil-free cook/baker that presented a whole new world.

I also love simplicity and am determined to prove that you don’t need a long list of ingredients to make a delicious meal, or a baked good. I recently tried a chocolate cake slice at Whole Foods, simply out of curiosity, because it had been so long since I had a “regular” (white flour/white sugar/oil) baked good. Well, not only was the list of ingredients 15+ easily, but it was bland as could be and dry. Even my daughter immediately exclaimed “Mommy, you make much better cakes at home!” If a 3 year old can pick up on that, I must be onto something, haha!

This is the season where lots of pumpkin spice latte recipes pop up all over the web. With people wanting healthier versions with less sugar than the Starbucks version, they can easily find one on the internet, and it be much cheaper.

I got an overwhelming positive response of these cupcakes when I showed a teaser photo on Instagram and Facebook…keep the comments coming, that’s the only way I know what you guys like!

I figured I didn’t need to add another PSL to my blog knowing there are plenty great ones already out there to choose from. So, instead I decided to create my own pumpkin spice latte….but in the form of a muffin!

Would you just look at that gorgeous, cloud-like fluffy icing?! I’m telling you, it is like heaven in your mouth…yet surprisingly so simple and healthier than almost any icing recipe out there. I wanted to follow the same style as the Pumpkin Spice Latte Drink with their whipped cream on top, so I created a very light whipped icing. It is a very subtle sweetness..only 1 tbsp of syrup!

They rise up beautifully, not deflated!

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