Easy Vegan Gingerbread Muffins (High Protein)

These easy vegan gingerbread muffins are such a simple last minute treat you can bake for the holidays. The mix of warm spices and Gingerbread Cookie Protein Powder gives these muffins such a delicious flavour. Adding the whipped cream and mini gingerbread cookie on top adds the perfect festive touch!

Ingredients you’ll need to make these gingerbread muffins

• Vegan Butter. You can use any brand of vegan butter, and make sure it is melted before creaming it together with the brown and white sugar.
• Granulated White Sugar. This is what will be mixed in with the melted butter and brown sugar, to help sweeten these muffins.
• Brown Sugar. When mixed with the butter and white sugar, it will make the muffins chewy and add the extra molasses flavour to these gingerbread muffins.
• Almond Milk. You can add any plant milk flavour of your choice, but this adds a nice nutty flavour that mixes in well with the gingerbread.
• Apple Cider Vinegar. Adding this to the plant milk will let it curdle slightly to create a vegan ‘buttermilk’ and create a tender texture to the muffins.
• Spices. I used a mix of cinnamon and allspice, but you can do ginger, cloves, and nutmeg!
• Molasses. This mixed with the spices and protein powder is what gives the gingerbread flavour and colour, and makes these muffins soft and chewy.
• Salt. Just a pinch!
• Baking Powder. To make these muffins extra fluffy.
• Protein Powder. I used Good Protein Gingerbread Cookie, and I love that it adds extra protein to the muffins, along with a pillowy soft texture. If you want to try Good Protein for yourself, you can save with my code RIRI30!
• All-Purpose Flour. I haven’t tried with any other flour, but this works the best with the spoon-and-level method. This ensures you don’t overpack the flour when measuring it.
• Vegan Whipped Cream. You can use any brand and pipe the whipped cream with a piping bag. If you find it’s too liquidy, you can add powdered sugar to make it more firm. You can also use any icing of your choice if you prefer to not use whipped cream!
• Mini Gingerbread Cookies. You can use my gingerbread cookie recipe to make these and use a smaller cookie cutter to add extra cuteness to these muffins.

Tips on making these easy vegan gingerbread muffins

• Cream butter and sugar with a hand mixer. I love using a hand mixer over a whisk for this so you can make sure no clumps of sugar remain in the batter! You can also use a stand mixer if you prefer.
• Let the batter sit for 3-5 minutes before placing in your lined muffin tray. I find the batter gets a chance to rise and become super fluffy, so try not to skip this step!
• When baking your muffins, fill every other muffin cup and leave them empty. You don’t need to do this if you would rather bake the entire batch at once, but this helps the muffins rise and become fluffier because your muffins won’t have a neighbour blocking the heat to give them perfectly round tops.

How to store these high protein vegan gingerbread muffins

Place these gingerbread muffins in an airtight container and store in the fridge for one week. If you want to freeze these, I would recommend not adding any frosting, sprinkles, or mini gingerbread cookies. Once you are ready to enjoy these, let them thaw out and then add your frosting and decorations.

Craving more?

• To finish decorating these gingerbread muffins, you’ll need the recipe for my Chewy Vegan Gingerbread Cookies. All you need is a mini gingerbread cookie cutter and you’ve got the perfect topper for these muffins.
• Another simple and extremely easy holiday cookie you can whip up in no time are my Chewy Vegan Sugar Cookies! Made with only 8 ingredients and easily customizable with your cookie cutter shapes!
• A holiday favourite, my Vegan Hot Chocolate Cookies are so decadent and irresistible. When you bite into these, you’ll have the marshmallow pull of your dreams. Everyone will also be asking you for the recipe by the end of the night.

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