It’s fall and time to start eating pumpkin food! You won’t believe how delicious these eggless pumpkin muffins are and how easy they are to make.
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When September rolls around, I’m ready for fall! I love fall flavors. I add pumpkin spice creamer to my coffee and start making the easiest (and eggless) chocolate chip pumpkin cookies.
This pumpkin muffin recipe tastes fantastic and is light and moist. It’s the perfect pumpkin spice flavored dessert.
I’m allergic to eggs and I’m always working on new recipes that both my family and I can enjoy. My goal is for them to say it tastes like it has eggs or that it’s just as good. This recipe’s a hit. My daughter even warned me to be careful and to make sure I could eat them first! That means this recipe is a winner.
Eggless Pumpkin Muffins
These can be made without the crumb topping too. The muffin has a great taste, but the topping adds just a touch more sweetness and a little crunch.
Ingredients for egg free pumpkin muffins
Cake Mix– I’m using Duncan Hines yellow boxed cake mix. If you are wanting to make this recipe vegan, you’ll want to double check your cake mix to make sure it’s vegan.
Pumpin puree– Make sure not to get the pumpkin pie mix, just the plain canned pumpkin puree.
Cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice– This is what will give your muffins that great fall flavor.
Applesauce– I use applesauce as a binder to help hold the muffin together. You can use sweetened or unsweetened applesauce in this recipe.
Ingredients for crumb topping
- all purpose flour
- brown sugar
- sugar
- butter- If you are wanting vegan pumpkin muffins, just switch this out to Earth Balance. You’ll want this melted, not room temperature.
- cinnamon
How to Make Eggless Pumpkin Muffins
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350F. Make the crumble top by adding sugars, butter and cinnamon to a bowl and stir well. Slowly add in flour while stirring. Set aside.
Step 2
In a large mixing bowl, add in cake mix, pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and applesauce and mix with an electric mixer until combined. I’ve tried doing this with a fork and it doesn’t work well. Get your mixer out!
Step 3
You’ll want to fill the muffin tin halfway with the batter and add crumb topping to each muffin. It’s done when a toothpick inserted comes out clean, about 20 minutes. You can make these into mini muffins too, just reduce your cook time.
Tools to make moist pumpkin crumb muffins.
Silicone cupcake liners– These are my very favorite thing in the world when it comes to baking. I’ve had trouble with eggless recipes sticking to paper liners. Silicone liners pull off your cupcake or muffin so easily and nothing sticks! These are a must-have and you can wash them in the dishwasher!
Handheld Electric Mixer– You can use a stand mixer for this recipe, but you don’t have to get it out if you don’t want to. A simple hand mixer will do fine. I actually use my hand mixer way more than my stand mixer. It’s just easier to get out and clean. Anyway, the hand mixer I linked to above is one I got for a wedding gift over twenty years ago and it’s still going strong and I bake A LOT! I definitely recommend it.
Muffin Pan– This is the one I have, I think it’s a wedding gift too!
Large bowl– I LOVE stainless steel bowls. They are great in the kitchen for all kinds of cooking and baking. They hold up well and don’t need to replace often.
Where to find more eggless dessert recipes
If you are coming to this recipe because it’s egg free, then you’re in luck! I have an egg free desserts Pinterest board. If you like searching for things on Pinterest, make sure to follow that board to get all kinds of dessert recipes. I have over 1000 items pinned now.
I also started and an Egg Free Dessert Facebook page. If you are more of a Facebook person, make sure to like and follow it. I started it about a few years ago and there are already over 1700 followers.
More fall and muffin recipes you’ll like.
- Iced Pumpkin Cookies
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pumpkin Pie Dip
- Strawberry Muffins
- Blueberry Muffins
- Mini Applesauce Muffins– My most popular muffin recipe!
Eggless Pumpkin Muffins with Crumb Topping
Ingredients
- 1 can pumpkin
- 1 yellow cake mix
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons applesauce
Crumb Topping
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- butter melted
- 1 1/4 cups flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a small bowl, add the crumb topping ingredients, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon and melted butter. Sitr with a fork. Slowly add in flour. The mixture will be crumbles.
- In a second bowl, add cake mix to a medium bowl and add pumpkin puree, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and applesauce. Mix using an electric mixer.
- Fill muffin pan 1/2 to 3/4 full and add 1 tablespoon of crumb topping. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until done. Test using a toothpick, if it comes out clean, it's done.