Gluten Free Pumpkin Muffins with Dairy Free Icing
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These gluten free, dairy free and vegan pumpkin muffins are scrumptious by themselves or smothered with icing and decorated for Halloween! Pumpkin is where it’s at during the fall season and don’t forget Thanksgiving!
When my son walked through the door yesterday, after school, he said it smelled like “Auntie Anne’s Pretzels”! Wow, I took that as the biggest compliment, wouldn’t you?
These gluten free pumpkin muffins smell incredible and are made with oat flour, which is a great source of fiber. Try making some homemade oat flour of your own by tossing some sprouted gluten free oats in the blender and turning them on high until grounded into a fine flour.
Our house always has One Degree Organics stocked in the pantry. I purchase it from Costco but you can also order it online here: https://onedegreeorganics.com/products/organic-sprouted-rolled-oats-us/
Pumpkin purée is also used in this recipe. You can easily make it yourself (blog post for that coming soon)! Or you can buy canned pumpkin purée at your local grocery store. Oh, make sure it’s pumpkin purée and not pumpkin pie purée. There IS a difference!
Pumpkin purée is real pumpkin which contains beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, and folate just to name a few of the good things!
You’ll notice I included unsweetened applesauce in this recipe. I love using applesauce in muffins. It gives them such a moist and rich flavor. But it also acts as a sweetener too!
Since this is a bigger recipe, it uses more cinnamon than what you are probably used to. Don’t skimp on it! The cinnamon and nutmeg are needed and is what fills your house with such Auntie Anne’s aroma!
Finally we get to the icing, my favorite part! Now, you can absolutely enjoy these gluten free pumpkin muffins as is. The icing is only optional but does make it more fun if you are making these for a special occasion. As you can see, I decorated mine with some crushed up gluten free graham crackers. Then added some festive Halloween characters on top!
The tulip parchment paper cups are a must for a high rise muffin and the little Halloween characters are so cute! I purchased them on Amazon, linked below:
If you’re looking for some more gluten free bread/muffin recipes, here are a couple more I love for fall!
Gluten Free and Vegan Cinnamon Raisin Oat Bread
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