These vegan muffin recipes come together in one bowl and are easy to make. You can skip the trip to your corner bakery and enjoy gloriously tall muffins in the comfort of your own home!
This roundup showcases a range of vegan muffins including those packed with fruit and vegetables (which make them healthy enough for breakfast, right?!). Other muffins are loaded with chocolate and are decadent enough for dessert. I’ve even included a vegan savory muffin recipe!
Tips for making the best vegan muffins
Vegan muffins are easy to make as you often just combine the dry ingredients and wet ingredients in one large bowl. To make the fluffiest muffins with tall muffin tops, these are my top recommendations:
- Make sure you measure your flour accurately. If you’re using measuring cups, use the spoon and level method. If you use your measuring cup to scoop flour out of the container, it can add an extra 50% of flour to the recipe and will lead to dry and dense muffins. Or use a kitchen scale and the grams measurements (you’ll have fewer dirty dishes to wash)!
- Don’t overmix the muffin batter. Overmixing cake batter strengthens the gluten which makes tougher and denser baked goods.
- For the highest muffin tops, bake the muffins in every other cavity in your muffin pan. This encourages more of the oven heat to circulate each muffin which makes them rise taller! I like using a USA muffin pan as the cups are spaced out and each muffin gets even more heat circulation!
Customizing your muffins
I prefer soy milk as it’s high in protein and creates softer and more tender muffins. However, any dairy-free milk will work (such as almond milk or oat milk).
For simplicity, I avoid using special egg replacers in vegan muffins. Instead, I make sure that muffins have enough leavening agents such as baking powder or baking soda, but not enough that you can taste it. You can also add a little apple cider vinegar to the batter, as it tenderizes the gluten and makes softer muffins. If the muffin naturally contains fruit (like banana muffins), I add extra fruit to ensure the muffins are moist.
Using a neutral oil in vegan muffins actually makes them moister and fluffier, compared to using butter. You can see the difference in this helpful post by Handle the Heat. When making crumble toppings, I use vegan butter (which can be replaced with coconut oil).
Vegan Carrot Muffins
My vegan carrot cake muffins have the perfect combination of carrots, brown sugar and warm spices. They have a delicious streusel topping and are perfect if you’re craving a nostalgic treat!
Vegan Banana Muffins
These vegan banana muffins are just like your classic banana bread, but bake in a fraction of the time! The fragrant cinnamon crumb topping is to die for.
Vegan Chocolate Chip Muffins
These vegan chocolate chip muffins are soft and fluffy, and loaded with dairy-free chocolate chips!
Vegan Chocolate Muffins
These vegan chocolate muffins are rich, full of chocolate and soft and moist thanks to the dairy-free yogurt, brown sugar and oil.
Vegan Blueberry Muffins
These vegan blueberry muffins are fluffy, moist and better than your local bakery! Made with just 7 ingredients, in 1 bowl and loads of blueberries.
Vegan Apple Muffins
These vegan apple muffins are made with only 7 key ingredients! They have a glorious crunchy sugar top and will make your home smell amazing.
Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
These vegan lemon poppy seed muffins are the perfect pick-me-up in Spring! They use fresh lemon juice, lemon zest and are topped with a very simple lemon glaze for an extra boost.
Vegan Pumpkin Muffins
Soft and fluffy vegan pumpkin muffins with a crunchy pumpkin seed streusel topping. These muffins use a whole can of pumpkin puree, lots of pumpkin spice and are perfect for Fall!
Vegan Savory Muffins
These vegan savory muffins are moist, packed with vegetables, and come together in one bowl! You can easily customize these muffins to suit your own tastes.
Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
One-bowl vegan pumpkin chocolate chip muffins that use a whole can of pumpkin puree! These muffins are soft, moist and loaded with chocolate chips.
Vegan Raspberry Muffins
These cake-like vegan raspberry muffins are light, fluffy and moist. They have large bakery-style tops and can be baked with either fresh or frozen raspberries!
Vegan Zucchini Muffins
These lightly spiced vegan zucchini muffins are perfect for using up your leftover zucchini!
Vegan Double Strawberry Muffins
These fun vegan strawberry muffins are packed with 4 cups of strawberries and lots of strawberry flavor!
Vegan Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Double chocolate vegan zucchini muffins that are so moist and rich! You can’t detect the zucchini in these muffins which makes them ideal for sneaking in extra veggies!
Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Muffins
These vegan chocolate peanut butter muffins are reminiscent of snickers bars! You can even make them refined sugar-free and gluten-free.
Vegan banana bread, raspberry and white chocolate muffins
Vegan banana bread muffins with raspberries and chunks of white chocolate! Wholesome, refined sugar-free and with a gluten-free option.
Vegan Apple Berry Crumble Muffins
Wholesome vegan apple berry muffins with an oat crumble topping. They’ll make a delicious vegan breakfast or snack.
Vegan Avocado Muffins
Fun vegan avocado muffins that taste wholesome, are loaded with chocolate chips and naturally colored with spinach.
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