Cinnamon Pear Buckwheat Muffins with Pecan Streusel
 
 
Makes 12 standard sized muffins or 1, 9x5 inch loaf
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Ingredients
Pecan Streusel
  • ⅓ cup spelt flour (or sub with oat flour to make gluten free)
  • ¼ cup packed organic brown sugar
  • ½ cup raw pecans, roughly chopped
  • 2 tablespoons unrefined coconut oil, melted
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • pinch of sea salt
Muffins
  • 1 medium sized pear (I used Bartlett), unpeeled & chopped (or sub with 1 apple, unpeeled & chopped)
  • 1 cup spelt flour (or sub with 1 cup oat flour to make gluten free)
  • ¾ cup buckwheat flour
  • ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons organic brown sugar
  • ½ cup unsweetened almond milk
  • 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
  • ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
  • ¼ cup unrefined coconut oil, melted
  • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
Pecan Streusel
  1. Mix together all dry ingredients then add coconut oil. Stir until coconut oil is well distributed and mixture is clumpy. Set aside.
Muffins
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine flaxseed with 5 tablespoons water and set aside (this is your flax egg). Add 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar to almond milk and set aside. (Make sure almond milk is at room temperature so it will not cause the coconut oil to harden when mixed.) Allow both to sit for at least 10 minutes to allow flax egg to thicken and almond milk to curdle.
  2. Whisk together spelt and buckwheat flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and sea salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl whisk together brown sugar sugar, flax egg, almond milk, applesauce, coconut oil and vanilla extract. Add wet mixture to dry ingredients and mix. Fold in chopped pear.
  3. Place paper cupcake liners in a standard muffin tin. Scoop batter by quarter cupfuls into muffin tin. Top each muffin with roughly 1 tablespoon streusel mixture. Lightly press streusel into batter. Bake for 25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center come out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before serving.
Loaf Cake
  1. To makes as a loaf cake, grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan with coconut oil. ( You can place a long strip of parchment paper overlapping two sides of the pan to help lift the loaf out once cooled.) Pour batter into pan then top with streusel, lightly pressing streusel into top of loaf.
  2. Bake at 350 F for 50 minutes. Allow loaf to cool completely before removing from pan.
Recipe by The Mostly Vegan at https://www.themostlyvegan.com/cinnamon-pear-buckwheat-muffins-with-pecan-streusel/