Coffee Cake Muffins with Streusel Topping

This easy Coffee Cake Muffins recipe is moist, flavorful and a great start to your day. Cinnamon Streusel Muffins are perfect for the weekend, these light and fluffy muffins can be enjoyed any day of the week. This is an easy coffee cake recipe turned into your new favorite breakfast brown sugar cinnamon muffins.

I love making the best muffins ever! It might have been one of the first recipes I made in my life, but I doubt it. I think my first jab at solo baking was a batch of cookies, and I think they turned out ok.

Before then I was a pro at making boxed mac and cheese and following whatever orders my mom yelled my way. I was, I guess, her sous chef.

But muffin recipes were a part of my early on in my baking experience. I’m now such a muffin fan! I love the individual cakes! And it’s fun experimenting with the different delicious muffins flavors!

When I went vegan, baking took on a whole new meaning in my life. It was a new challenge. It was so intriguing!

These vegan coffee cake muffins, my friends, maybe the pinnacle of my baking experience. At least so far.

Why is it called Coffee Cake?

I’m not a big fan of coffee (I have a specific medical condition that limits caffeine), so I’ve often wondered why it’s called “coffee” cake. Does it have coffee in it? Is it supposed to be served with coffee? It turns out both answers can be correct. Coffee cake “is intended to be eaten with, or flavored with coffee.”

You can learn more about the intricacies of coffee cake, but here’s my summation:

• Flavor it with coffee to make coffee muffins (or not)
• Serve it with coffee (or not)
• Prepare it as a one-layer cake (or not)

Obviously, there’s a lot of room for creativity with a coffee cake recipe.

The original coffee cake was an import from Germany. Maybe that’s why the best coffee cakes are made with a streusel, crumbly topping.

How to Make Coffee Cake Muffins

This is an easy muffin recipe. Just follow these steps:

Step One: Crumble Topping

For the Crumble Topping: combine the sugar, cinnamon, a pinch of salt, peanut butter, and molasses in a bowl. Stir to combine. Add the oats and stir until combined. Set aside.

Step Two: Add Muffin Wet Ingredients Together

To make this best muffin recipe, cream together the vegan butter, agave, and Swerve in a bowl. Stir vigorously until light and fluffy. Add the applesauce, milk, ground flaxseed, cornstarch, and apple cider vinegar. Stir to combine.

Step Three: Combine Dry Ingredients

In a medium-size bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir to combine. Add the flour mixture to the milk mixture. Stir until just combined.

Step Four: Pour Batter into Muffin Tins and Bake

Pour the batter into prepared muffin tins. Evenly distribute the crumble topping across the muffins. Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the muffins, comes out clean. The crumble topping should be nice and golden brown as well.

When done, remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before serving.

Store yummy muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Refrigerate these muffins, but know they may not stay as moist. Refrigerate for up to 7 days or freeze for up to 1 month.

Healthy Coffee Cake Muffins

The goal with this cinnamon crumb muffins recipe is to create a moist, delicious, and yet healthy muffin. That seems like an impossible standard. And yet when Shawn had one of these muffins he exclaimed how hard it was to stop at one. He has more discipline than me, which is why I had to have two.

I’ve added a little bit of healthiness to this coffee cake muffin recipe by doing the following:

• used oats in the crumble topping
• streusel needs fat to hold it together; I used peanut butter and it worked
• added applesauce to keep the muffins moist
• used a combination of agave and Swerve to keep sugars minimized
• whole wheat pastry flour adds some fiber
• ground flax seeds add Omega-3s

Finally, a way to add delicious healthiness to an indulgent breakfast treat with crumb cake muffins.

Love Healthy Muffins?

If you love healthy, vegan muffins, be sure to try these:

• Everyone loves these Vegan Blueberry Muffins!
• These Vegan Banana Muffins are a real crowd-pleaser, too
• Make these Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins today
• You’ll also love this Healthy Carrot Cake recipe, too
• If you’re looking for something more indulgent, try these Cinnamon Muffins — they’re so good

Coffee Cake Muffins

I took the very best vegan coffee cake and turned it into Coffee Cake Muffins. You'll love these tender, crumbly-topped muffins for breakfast, for brunch, for snack time, and even for dessert! 

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Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 230kcal

Author: Marly

Ingredients

Crumble Topping

• ¼ cup coconut sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• ¼ cup peanut butter softened
• 2 teaspoons molasses
• ½ cup oats (I used instant)

Muffins

• ½ cup vegan butter
• ½ cup agave nectar (or maple syrup or honey)
• ¼ cup Swerve (see notes)
• ½ cup applesauce , unsweetened
• 1 cup almond milk , unsweetened
• 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
• 1½ cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions

• Heat your oven to 350°F. Line muffin tins with papers or spray with vegetable spray.

Crumble Topping

• For the Crumble Topping: combine the sugar, cinnamon, a pinch of salt, peanut butter, and molasses in a bowl. Stir to combine. Add the oats and stir until combined. Set aside.

Muffins

• In a large bowl, cream together the vegan butter, agave, and Swerve. Stir vigorously until light and fluffy. Add the applesauce, milk, ground flaxseed, cornstarch, and apple cider vinegar. Stir to combine.
• In a medium-size bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir to combine. Add the flour mixture to the milk mixture. Stir until just combined.
• Pour the batter into prepared muffin tins. Evenly distribute the crumble topping across the muffins. Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the muffins, comes out clean. The crumble topping should be nice and golden brown as well.
• When done, remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before serving.
• Store muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. These muffins can be refrigerated but may not be quite as moist. Refrigerate for up to 7 days or freeze for up to 1 month.

Recommended Equipment

Muffin Pan

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Notes

Swerve is a zero-calorie sweetener. Truvia is another good option as it does a mixture between erythritol and stevia.

Nutrition Facts

Coffee Cake Muffins

Amount Per Serving

Calories 230 Calories from Fat 90

% Daily Value*

Fat 10g15%

Saturated Fat 2g10%

Sodium 263mg11%

Potassium 187mg5%

Carbohydrates 33g11%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 16g18%

Protein 4g8%

Vitamin A 360IU7%

Vitamin C 0.1mg0%

Calcium 69mg7%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

The nutrition information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator and should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Could you call these coffee cake cupcakes? Sure! It’s a fine line between muffins and cupcakes. Whatever you call them, enjoy!

National Coffee Cake Day

I think there’s a national food day being celebrated almost every day! Today is not an exception. It’s national coffee cake day. I am celebrating this delicious food holiday with some awesome food blogging friends.

Some of these recipes may not be vegetarian let alone vegan. Feel free to reach out to me if you’d like help veganizing any of these coffee cake recipes.

Traditional Coffee Cake Recipes

• Vegan Coffee Cake comes with a delicious crumble topping!
• Vegan and Gluten-free Coffee Cake by Feasting on Fruit
• Coconut Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake from Creations by Kara
• Vegan Breakfast Cake with Kahlua Frosting by Loving it Vegan
• Moist Coffee Cake Muffins from Pretty Providence
• Vegan Gluten-Free Cinnamon Coffee Cake from Rachel Mansfield
• Sour Cream Coffee Cake by Savory Experiments
• Slow cooker coffee cake  by 365 Days of Slow Cooking
• Cinnamon coffee cake muffins from My Mommy Style
• New York Style Crumb Cake from Epicurious
• Mason Jar Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake thanks to Premeditated Leftovers
• Grandma’s Cinnamon Coffee Cake by Simply Stacie

Fruit Coffee Cakes

• Lemon Rhubarb Coffee Cake by the Crumb Blog
• Blueberry Coffee Cake from Texan Erin
• Strawberry Coffee Cake by Grandbaby Cakes
• Raspberry Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake by Buns in my Oven
• Peach Coffee Cake by Real Mom Kitchen
• Dark Chocolate Raspberry Coffee Cake by Sally’s Baking Addiction
• Vegan Blueberry Coffee Cake Loaf by Sweet Like Cocoa
• Apple coffee cake with streusel topping by Super Golden Bakes
• Lemon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake coming from the Baker Upstairs
• Lemon and Blueberry Coffee Cake by Barbara Bakes

Flavored Coffee Cakes

• Vegan Pumpkin Coffee Cake by Vegan Richa
• Chocolate chip sour cream coffee cake by Ashlee Marie
• Easy Carrot Coffee Cake from An Italian in my Kitchen
• Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake by The Salted Marshmallow
• Gingerbread Coffee Cake by Kristine’s Kitchen

Wow, that’s a lot of coffee cake recipes! You know, that means lots of delicious weekend (and weekday) breakfast treats to enjoy!