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These Vegan Bakery Style Cinnamon Streusel Muffins are a beautiful memory to the ones we ate growing up, but don’t have all of that butter or oil. These are dairy-free, oil-free and made with whole grain spelt flour and almond flour.

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BAKERY STYLE CINNAMON STREUSEL MUFFINS

So, I guess a recipe is a success when, while testing these, I promptly ate 3 muffins back-to-back with no shame?? Yes, I think so. They are that good. I use to love traditional cinnamon streusel muffins back in the day, but they were always loaded with so much butter. Even the vegan versions I’ve seen are loaded with butter or oil. Well, these have NO OIL! And I promise you won’t be missing it either. I love proving you don’t need any oil for delicious muffins, like in these 15 Vegan Muffin Recipes Without Oil! These babies are SUPER moist and buttery. A cinnamon streusel muffin without any oil? Has it been done? I don’t know, but today it’s happening folks, lol!! Ok, I’m just a wee bit giddy over these.

OIL-FREE STREUSEL TOPPING

So, typically streusel toppings are made with flour, sugar and butter. The butter is needed to hold the flour together and make that crunchy topping after they bake. Yum, right? Well, my “butter” idea is using almond flour. It has the fat needed to give that buttery taste and it crisps up with the brown sugar beautifully in the oven. I got this idea for my topping based on the fact that I almost always use almond flour in place of oil in my baked goods for the past 4 years.

I used almond flour on top of my Cinnamon Pecan Crisp before, so I knew it would work well here. However, on that crisp, the topping is rather hefty, thick and loaded with oats. I didn’t want a heavy topping like that, so just using almond flour mixed with the sugar and a small amount of milk did the trick.

WHOLE GRAIN VEGAN MUFFINS

I used spelt for a whole grain version instead of all-purpose flour. It has a more earthy taste to it than the all-purpose versions, but it’s still an oh-just-as-delicious version! In fact, I prefer the depth of flavor, as it really brings out the cinnamon more.

What makes these muffins so bakery-ish and incredible?? Well, they are super moist thanks to the almond flour, coconut milk and light brown sugar. Since there is no oil and not a lot of fat, the light brown sugar is pretty important here. The molasses in the brown sugar gives extra moisture and also gives a wonderful hearty texture to these muffins. I really love texture in a muffin. The topping is magical. Think…sweet, crunchy, cinnamon-y and addicting!

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