These Apple Hemp Muffins are hot! These whole-grain, vegan muffins by Dreena Burton are easy to make, delicious, tender, and also nut-free and oil-free.
These Apple Hemp Muffins are hot.
Recipe, I mean. Muffins too, but you know, let ’em cool at least a little before taking a bite.
Who would imagine that hemp muffins could be so popular? Readers have loved this recipe for years now, so much that I revised it for Plant-Powered Families.
The original version appeared in Vive le Vegan back in 2004. Yep, I’ve been using hemp seeds in my recipes for many years, before it was a trendy superfood.
When I started using hemp seeds and talking about them in my recipes, I got that “ohhhh, you are that kind of vegan!” sort of reaction.
People didn’t know that hemp seeds were a highly nutritious food – a ‘superfood’ if you will.
No, instead they thought they’d get high from my brownies. Of course they wouldn’t! Because I saved it all for muffins. #kidding #relax!
Jokes aside, it took a few years for the worth of hemp – high in protein, essential fatty acids, and antioxidants – to be recognized in the world of healthy eating. Thank goodness it has, because it has made these virtuous bitty seeds widely available (and accepted)!
For Plant-Powered Families, I freshened up the recipe and made them oil-free. Even without the oil, these muffins are still beautifully moist and tender. To ensure they don’t stick to the muffin liners, try using these parchment muffin liners. They do the trick!
I make these muffins often for school lunches, because they are substantial, healthy, and of course nut-free.
Apple Hemp Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups whole-grain spelt flour
- 1 cup oat flour
- 2/3 – 3/4 cup hemp seeds
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 1/2 – 1 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground cardamom can substitute freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 cup unsweetened organic applesauce
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 3/4 cup plain or vanilla non-dairy milk
- 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup raisins or chopped raw banana spears use kitchen shears or knife to cut in small pieces about size of raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (176°C). In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients, sifting in the baking powder and baking soda. Stir through until well combined. In another bowl, combine applesauce, maple syrup, non-dairy milk, and vanilla, and mix together. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture, and gently fold and mix through, until just combined (do not overmix). Spoon the mixture into a muffin pan lined with cupcake liners (this will fill 12 muffins quite full). Bake for 21-23 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. (See notes above about cooling to help remove from liner.) Makes 12 large muffins.
Have you tried these Vegan Apple Hemp Muffins? What is your favorite way to eat hemp seeds?
Tiffany says
Yum! These muffins look great! I’m looking forward to your miso scented patties recipe too 🙂
Thank you so much for all your hardwork!
By th way, do you have an easy recipe for vegan yogurt and cashew milk?
I’ve looked into vegan yogurts but I can’t find unsweetened version and the sweetened variety is too sweet.
Thank you, Dreena! Happy Friday and have a wonderful weekend!
Dreena says
Thanks Tiffany. 🙂 I have a vegan ‘yogurt’ recipe in LTEV, it has a base of raw cashews and unsweetened applesauce. As for cashew milk, you can simply soak about 1 cashews for about 4 hour, whiz with about 3-4 cups water, then season if you like with vanilla/sweetener – and if you want to strain you can, but you can also just go with it as is. Hope that helps out! 🙂
JCB says
Kite Hill vegan yogurt has an unsweetened version and it is delicious. Whole Foods and some co ops carry it.
Rebekah says
Whole Foods often has their bags of hemp hearts on one-day sales for $5 or $6. It’s a really good deal if you get there on the right day.
Dreena says
Is that in the US Rebekah? Good to know – thanks.
Linda says
Made them last night, and you’re right, they are the total BOMB! Thanks for sharing!
Dreena says
haha, that’s AWESOME! Thanks for that, Linda!
Marianne says
I love how simple the ingredients for these muffins are, and they are things that I almost always have on hand. They might be my next muffin baking adventure 🙂
Herbivore Triathlete says
These look fantastic! Like others have stated already, hemp seeds are very expensive where I live as well. It’s too bad really because I also found a recipe for hemp seed cookies this week that I would like to make along with these muffins!
Dreena says
You are in the US as well, right? I’ve heard a lot about how pricey they are in the US. I usually buy large containers for a better price, and have bought online bulk from the companies too. Hopefully we can score some hemp seeds at a decent price for you soon, that’s unfortunate.