Best Easy Vegan Cornbread Muffins
The best sweet, moist, fluffy, and vegan cornbread muffins. This is the perfect recipe to make during the chilly fall and winter months. It’s also a great dish to share with your family on Thanksgiving.
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Best Easy Vegan Cornbread Muffins
Good morning everyone! Now that November is finally here, I am going to start to roll out some easy vegan Thanksgiving recipes for all of you. I know that many of us have friends and family members who are either vegan, vegetarian, or dairy-free nowadays. So, it’s nice to be able to create a couple of dishes that everyone can enjoy at holiday parties and gatherings.
Today, I am sharing my easy and delicious vegan cornbread muffins recipe. These cornbread muffins are moist, sweet, fluffy, and delicious. The muffins are a Thanksgiving staple in my family. However, they also taste amazing served with my dad’s famous vegan chili. This cornbread muffin recipe is one that I definitely recommend you try out this holiday season.
Now, let’s take a look at a few quick things to note for this recipe. Then, we will dive into the list of ingredients you will need to make this easy vegan cornbread muffin recipe a smashing success.
What Is Vegan Cornbread Made Of?
Vegan cornbread is made of many of the same ingredients that you will find in traditional cornbread. My cornbread muffins specifically contain yellow cornmeal, a mix of flours (oat flour and bread flour), as well as some leavening agents (baking soda and baking powder). In order to ensure these muffins come out nice and moist, we use applesauce, olive oil, maple syrup, and non dairy milk. Finally, there are a few key sources of sweetness that I included in the muffin batter including the maple syrup and applesauce mentioned above, as well as a bit of coconut sugar. With this combination of ingredients, along with a few other add-ins (like canned corn), you end up with delicious vegan cornbread muffins that are moist, light, fluffy, sweet, and absolutely delicious!
Now that we have covered a few quick things to note for this recipe, let’s take a look at the ingredients you will need to make these delicious, light, and fluffy vegan cornbread muffins.
Best Easy Vegan Cornbread Muffins – Ingredients
- Yellow Cornmeal – The first ingredient you will need for this recipe is the yellow cornmeal. You really can’t make any cornbread recipe without this key ingredient, so it should come as no surprise. It is a dry base ingredient that adds a ton of flavor as well as that classic yellow color to your muffins.
- Quick Oats – The quick oats will be blended up to form a fine oat flour. This ingredient combines perfectly with the other dry base ingredients. If you don’t have quick oats, you can easily sub rolled oats.
- Bread Flour – The bread flour adds to the dry base to achieve the perfect muffin texture that is light and fluffy on the inside.
- Canned Corn – The canned corn adds both flavor and texture to this delicious cornbread muffin recipe. You will want to drain the liquid from your corn before you fold it into your muffin batter. The corn adds texture, flavor, and sweetness to this delicious vegan cornbread muffin recipe.
- Coconut Sugar – The coconut sugar adds a ton of sweetness to this vegan cornbread muffin recipe.
- Baking Powder – The baking powder is an essential leavening agent which helps these muffins rise.
- Baking Soda – The baking soda is the other important leavening agent which helps the muffins achieve a light and fluffy texture.
- Nut Milk – This ingredient adds creaminess to the cornbread muffins. It helps turn the flour mixture into a smooth muffin batter. I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk, but you can use whichever kind of non-dairy milk you prefer or have on hand.
- Pure Maple Syrup – The pure maple syrup adds a ton of sweetness as well as some moisture to the cornbread muffin batter.
- Unsweetened Applesauce – The unsweetened applesauce adds even more moisture and sweetness to the cornbread muffins.
- Olive Oil – The oil adds richness and moisture to this vegan cornbread muffin recipe.
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Best Easy Vegan Cornbread Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1/2 cup quick oats (blended into a fine oat flour)
- 1/4 cup bread flour
- 1 cup canned corn
- 2 tbsp coconut sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp nut milk (I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk)
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350° F.
- Add the cornmeal, oat flour, bread flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, and baking soda to a large bowl.
- Mix thoroughly to combine.
- Make a well in the center of the bowl, then add the nut milk, maple syrup, applesauce, and olive oil.
- Mix the wet ingredients to combine, then slowly mix the wet into the dry to form a smooth muffin batter.
- Gently fold in the corn.
- Evenly distribute the batter between 10 cavities of a lined or greased muffin pan.
- Bake the muffins for about 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let the muffins cool completely before removing them from the pan.
- Dig in and enjoy!
Notes
As you guys can tell, this recipe is super easy to make. These cornbread muffins pair especially well with chili and vegan butter. And don’t worry, this recipe is only the first in the series of Thanksgiving recipes I plan to release in the coming weeks :). Anyway, that’s it for this post. As per usual, I will be back with another blog post very soon.
-Alyssa 🙂
