Maple Cinnamon and Brown Sugar Vegan Zucchini Muffins
These Maple Cinnamon and Brown Sugar Vegan Zucchini Muffins will blow you away! Super soft, filled with spices, and you can never taste the zucchini!
Servings: 12 muffins
Calories: 317kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups zucchini (about 1 small zucchini)
- 1 ¼ cups brown sugar
- ¾ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup + 1 tablespoon dairy free butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups flour (use GF if needed - see post for details)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon cloves
- ½ teaspoon salt
Optional Add-ins
- ¾ cup walnuts, chopped
- 1 ½ cups dried cranberries or raisins or chocolate chips, pick one
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Liberally spray a muffin tin with cooking spray or grease with coconut oil.
- Grate zucchini. Squeeze out excess water. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, applesauce, maple syrup, softened butter, and vanilla. Add zucchini and fold in with a spatula.
- Add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Stir just until no dry ingredients remains.
- If adding, walnuts, or any optional ingredients, add now. Fold to combine. Do not over mix.
- Pour batter into greased muffin tins until ¾ full.
- Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and let cool for 10-15 minutes.
- Remove from the tins and transfer to cool completely.
- Store in an air tight container.
Notes
**Nutritional facts are just estimates. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Does include walnuts but not ay optional add-ins.
*See post for Top 8 Allergen Free instructions.
Nutrition
Serving: 1slice | Calories: 317kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 173mg | Potassium: 210mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 46IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 63mg | Iron: 2mg