Vegan Pumpkin Muffins With Maple Cream Cheese

Chewy, soft pumpkin muffins, topped with a sweet maple cream cheese swirl. The perfect healthy and oil free muffin recipe for a delicious fall-inspired breakfast, snack, or dessert! These vegan pumpkin muffins are made with lots of pumpkin puree, spice, and applesauce for a healthy twist!

Before You Begin

Ingredients

Maple Cream Cheese

⅔ cup Tofutti Cream Cheese
¼ cup Powdered Sugar
½ tsp Vanilla Extract
2 tbsp Maple Syrup

Pumpkin Muffins

1 ¾ cups Flour
1 tsp Salt
2 tsp Baking Soda
1 ½ tbsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
½ cup Coconut Sugar
1 cup Applesauce
2 cups Pumpkin Puree
1 Eggcitables Egg (or flax egg)
2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Instructions

Maple Cream Cheese

In a bowl, combine Tofutti cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla, and maple syrup.
Whip with a fork until well combined.

Pumpkin Muffins

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a muffin tin.
In a large mixing bowl combine flour, salt, baking soda, and pumpkin pie spice.
In a small bowl prepare Eggcitables egg (or flax egg).
In a separate bowl combine pumpkin puree, apple sauce, coconut sugar, vanilla, and Eggictable egg.
Combine dry flour mixture and wet pumpkin mixture.
Pour pumpkin batter into muffin tins, about 3/4 full. Leave enough space for cream cheese.
Dollop cream cheese onto muffins, cover with more batter or swirl on top.
Optional: Top muffins with turbinado sugar.

Notes

I used Tofutti Cream Cheese for the maple cream cheese swirl in this recipe. I love Tofutti cream cheese because it’s so neutral! Use your favorite vegan cream cheese!
The cream cheese topping is totally optional, but I highly recommend it since it’s a nice sweet contrast!
I used Eggcitables egg replacer! It’s the best egg sub out there, it works so well for baking! Feel free to use your favorite egg sub.
I had a bit of batter leftover so I made it into a few mini pumpkin donuts. I topped them with the leftover maple cream cheese!

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Author

Alex

Hi I’m Alex, and I’m a potato addict. I’m one half of Chickpea Express, a vegan couple on the East Coast of Canada. We create vegan comfort food and junk food recipes with a healthy, plant-based twist. Oh, and did I mention we love bread and potatoes?