Healthy cranberry orange muffins with a lovely sugar crumb topping, dairy free, no eggs or oil, and a bright citrus flavor made in one bowl in under 30 minutes, a delicious soft muffin perfect for breakfast or brunch celebration!
Grease the top surface of the 6-well cupcake pan (so muffin tops don't stick). Then line the cupcake pan with paper liners.
Toss the cranberries in flour and set aside.
Make Sugar Crumb Top
Make the top first and freeze while you make muffins
To do this, use a fork to mix the flour, sugar, butter and zest together into a crumbly mixture. Don't thoroughly cream it up. Instead, let chunks of flour and butter be visible. Add in the hemp hearts and zest.
½ cup oat flour, ½ cup organic cane sugar, 3 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon orange zest
Put bowl in the freezer (or refrigerator for more than half hour) while you mix up muffins.
Make Muffins
In one large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until combined.
¼ cup butter, ⅔ cups organic cane sugar
Add in the applesauce, vanilla, orange juice and zest.
Fill each cupcake well with batter nearly to the top.
Sprinkle and lightly pack on the sugar crumb topping.
Put the pan in the oven, and lower heat to 350 F. Bake at 350 F for only 20 minutes.
Storage
Store the muffins in a sealed container for 24 hours at room temperature if you want. The tops begin to moisten however. So within a day, put them in the refrigerator for a week or longer frozen.
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Notes
1. Toss the cranberries in flour before putting them into the batter. I didn't slice mine in half, but you can if you want to. It might make your cake a bit pinker even with flouring the berries.2. Make your crumble top first and put it in the freezer while you make muffin batter. If you want to set it aside for longer than half an hour, don't freeze, just refrigerate.3. For the topping, be sure your butter is chilled, not softened, certainly not melted.4. Fill your muffin wells nearly to the top and then add your crumb. To be sure your muffin tops don't stick to the pan, be sure to grease the TOP of the pan.