Make pumpkin everything a little more wholesome with these healthy pumpkin muffins! Made whole-grain, vegan, and oil-free.
Fall baking falls right in line with #pumpkineverything. Let’s swap out those overly sweetened lattes and cookies with something a little more wholesome.
How about healthy pumpkin muffins?
With some chocolate chips if you please!
So many of you love the pumpkin chia pudding, pumpkin pie, chocolate pumpkin pie, and the pumpkin custards, I decided to post these healthy pumpkin muffins.
This recipe is originally from LTEV, and I’m posting my oil-free modification today. The recipe had very little oil to begin with, so they were pretty easy to adapt.
The muffins are just as light and tender – and delicious! Bonus: They smell positively enchanting with the spices when baking!
You may find it hard to believe that they are healthy pumpkin muffins. No need to tell anyone. Just serve. 😋
Hope you enjoy these, guys. Do let me know! x Dreena
For more vegan muffins, check out these baked goods!
- Vegan Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Sweet Potato Muffins
- Lemon Cranberry Muffins
- Cinnamon Bun Muffins
- Apple Hemp Muffins
- Vegan Banana Bread
Pumpkin Oat Muffins with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
Topping (optional, not included in these photos):
- 2 tbsp unrefined sugar
- pinch sea salt
Batter:
- 1 cup spelt flour
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp allspice
- 3 tbsp coconut sugar or other unrefined sugar
- 1/4 – 1/3 cup mini non-dairy chocolate chips optional… maybe!
- 3 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 1 tbsp flax meal or 1/2 tbsp ground white chia seed
- 1 cup plain or vanilla non-dairy milk
- 1 cup pumpkin pie mix (see note) I use Farmer’s Market Organic brand
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a small bowl, combine the topping ingredients and set aside until batter is ready. In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients, sifting in the baking powder and baking soda. Stir until well mixed. In another bowl, first combine the maple syrup with the flax meal, and then add the remaining wet ingredients and stir until well mixed. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture, and gently fold and mix until just combined (do not overmix). Let sit for a minute while preparing a muffin pan with liners. Spoon the mixture into a twelve-cup lined muffin pan (filling 12). Sprinkle a little of the topping on each muffin. Bake for 21-22 minutes, until set to the touch. Remove from the oven, let cool for a couple of minutes in the pan, and then transfer the muffins to cool on a cooling rack. Makes 12 muffins.
Notes
images credit: Hannah Kaminsky
JoAnne says
Have these been made gluten free? I am celiac and can’t have spelt.
Dreena says
JoAnne, I haven’t tested them with all oat flour, but if you can have that they should be ok. You might need another 1-2 tbsp of oat flour in place of the spelt, and the muffins might be just a little more tacky with all oat (that’s usually my experience and why I tend to mix). But, overall I think they should be fine.
Andrea @ Vibrant Wellness Journal says
Totally stress bake! I like to think of it as an investment, as in, I can do this now and it will give me more time during the week for … I think it works! Wish I had some spelt flour to make these little guys right now- I’ve got a can of pumpkin that’s just waiting to become muffins! Love your site 🙂
Dreena says
Toooo funny! Andrea, I often bake 2 things one day thinking “I might be busier tomorrow”… but, in the process make myself particularly busy THAT day, hah! Still, I like to be prepared, family always toting snacks on the go. Thanks and enjoy!
Liz says
I am ALL about stress baking. (And cooking.) Whenever I find myself stressed, tense, sad, angry, bored, overwhelmed, lost, confused, I feel the kitchen pulling me in, like centripetal motion. Experimenting and making things up as I go along is my panacea and cure-all. Creating things soothes me and helps both distract AND focus my crazy thoughts. It’s like getting a shot of valium. LOL Seriously, though. As soon as the bowls come out and I start mixing, I can feel everything starting to wash away. It is without a doubt, the best (and CHEAPEST) form of therapy for me. 🙂 (Exercise and getting in the garden/yard are up there, though, too.) I get ANTSY if I have to go more than a couple of days without being in the kitchen. It’s like a SICKNESS; I feel like I’m going through withdrawal or something. LOL
Dreena says
Liz, I often think I need intervention, lol! I am entirely relating to what you are saying. Some of my busiest days are my most creative! It’s just the mess after I could do without. 😉 We should start a support group!
Eve says
I am a procrasti-baker! I should be doing something else but I’m going to bake these right now, as I have the ingredients at home (the overflowing pantry!). Strangely enough, I have not made these yet from LTEV, but your oil-free version makes me want to try these right away since I need to get back on the low-oil/no-oil bandwagon. I’ve been slipping! So, here I go . . . watch IG for a photo!
Dreena says
L O L!! Procrasti-baker! My word, that is the best, Eve – and I do it too!!! Which makes me more stressed which… you get the picture. Going to be using that one. 🙂
Tiffany says
Happy December, Dreena!
These are beautiful! I’ve actually made these and loved them!! I didn’t have pumpkin pie mix so I made them using plain pureed pumpkin and the muffins were still delicious!!
I should try meditation or yoga when I’m stressed but I usually bake and eat chocolate chips instead haha!!
Hope you have a wonderful holiday season filled with love, happiness, laughs and lots of sweets xoxo
Dreena says
Thanks Tiffany, wishing you a beautiful holiday season as well. Always lovely to hear from you.
p.s. I keep dark chocolate in my purse… at all times. That just about says it all! 😉
Tiffany says
Thank you 🙂 xoxo
What a good idea!! I’m going to start doing that!! Chocolate chips are a grt source of energy!
Dreena says
That’s what I’m talkin’ about!!! 😀