Bursting with juicy blueberries and a topped with a sweet, crisp crumble, these vegan blueberry streusel muffins are a delightful way to start your day.

One of the (many) joys of muffins is that they make eating cake for breakfast perfectly acceptable.  Throw in some fruit and if don’t pay too much attention we can even pretend they’re healthy.  Not that I’m claiming these blueberry streusel muffins are even remotely healthy.  They do have a whole layer of crumble mix plonked right on top after all.  But they taste too damn good not to indulge in once in a while.  For breakfast, an afternoon cuppa or whenever kinda treat.

How to make these easy vegan muffins

These muffins come together really quickly so start with the streusel topping.  Rub the vegan butter into the flour using your fingertips until you have a sandy texture and no lumps of butter remain.  Then stir in the sugars and cinnamon.  Set that aside while you make the muffin batter.

Whisk the milk, oil and vinegar together in a jug.  Then in a large bowl stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda and lemon zest.

Add the jug of wet to the bowl of dry and mix together, stirring up from the bottom of the bowl so you have no flour ‘pockets’ remaining.  Stir in the blueberries until just mixed in.

Divide the mixture evenly between 12 large muffin cases set in a muffin tin.

Sprinkle over reserved streusel topping then gently press it into the batter.

Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes until well risen and golden.  Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before lifting out onto a wire rack to cool.

Storing these blueberry muffins

Once completely cooled, store your blueberry streusel muffins in an airtight container at room temperature.  They will stay fresh for 5-6 days.

These vegan muffins also freeze really well.  Again, once completely cooled freeze in rigid freezer-proof containers.

Looking for even more vegan muffin recipes?  Try these:

• Carrot Cake Muffins
• Double Chocolate and Orange Muffins
• Raspberry Muffins
• Chocolate Chip Muffins
• Blackberry Jam Breakfast Muffins

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