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Spiced banana crumb muffins

Spiced Banana Crumb Muffins

Tatyana
Fluffy and moist banana muffins topped with spiced streusel make these fragrant and irresistible. And if you’re not feeling the spices you can simply omit them and still have a delicious muffin.
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Course Dessert
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

Banana Muffin

  • 100 g ripe banana, mashed
  • 105 g all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 45 g neutral oil, (grapeseed, canola, vegetable...)
  • 90 g granulated white sugar, make sure it’s vegan
  • 25 g plant based milk
  • 20 g chickpea flour
  • 30 g water
  • 1 tsp rum, optional

Spiced Streusel

  • 20 g old fashioned rolled oats
  • 25 g brown sugar
  • 15 g all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp ground clove
  • 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
  • pinch of salt
  • 20 g coconut oil (refined or not), very soft

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 180°C or 350°F and line a muffin pan with paper or silicone cups.

Streusel

  • In a small bowl, mix together the oats, sugar, flour, spices and salt until even.
  • Add the coconut oil and stir until everything is well coated and you have an even mixture. You can go in with your hand, pinching the streusel together.
  • Stick the bowl in the fridge while you make the muffin batter.

Muffins

  • Mash the banana on a flat plate with a fork and set aside.
  • Whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and set aside as well.
  • Whisk together the oil, sugar, milk, chickpea flour, water and rum until no lumps of chickpea flour remain.
  • Add the mashed banana and whisk until smooth.
  • Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and fold together but don’t overmix so as to prevent gummy muffins.
  • Fill the cups about 3/4 of the way up and sprinkle the streusel on top.
  • Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of one of the muffins comes out clean.
  • Let them cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Notes

  • *Disclaimer: I have a tiny not-so-great oven, so your bake time may vary from mine.
  • I strongly suggest making recipes by weight, if you make them by cups I can’t guarantee that you’ll get the same results.
  • You can omit the rum or replace it with vanilla extract.
  • You can easily modify these muffins to your liking - omit the spices in the streusel, omit the streusel all together, add nuts to the muffin batter...the world is your oyster (vegan oyster).