Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe – Easy Gluten Free Vegan Muffins!
Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe (GF, V): this moist ‘n easy lemon raspberry muffins recipe is gluten free & vegan! A healthy lemon raspberry muffins recipe that’s bursting with raspberry flavor! Gluten-Free, Vegan, Dairy-Free, Refined Sugar-Free.
When I was a kid, I never picked the fruity dessert. Like, ever. I just thought, what’s the point? Where’s all the chocolate? I mean, really! *Huffs*
Now that I’m older and just marginally wiser (maybe), I can see the finer points of fruit-based desserts. That, and Erik is always asking for them. 😉 He’s got a soft spot for lemon-based desserts, quick breads and muffins, so consider today’s Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins recipe his very special request. (As was this Vegan Gluten Free Banana Bread Coffee Cake Recipe)
Easy ‘n Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe
Add to that… y’all have been asking me for non-chocolate (!!) fruit- and lemon-based, gluten free vegan muffins over on Instagram. I’m happy to oblige with today’s delightfully vegan and gluten free easy lemon raspberry muffin recipe! It’s got lemon and raspberry (say what??? Shocker!!!) and is made with all the simple, whole ingredients you love.
If you’re searching for more lemon-based vegan gluten free desserts, try my lemon coconut macaroons, vegan lemon poppy seed muffins and my newest (and favoritest) easy vegan lemon poppy seed almond bread.
Now that you and Erik are grinning from ear to ear, let’s get started! 😉
Are these Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins: Gluten Free, Vegan, Dairy-Free?
Yes to all three! These healthy lemon raspberry muffins are gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free and refined sugar-free. (Not to mention egg-free.) Just be sure to use certified gluten free oat flour when gathering your ingredients for making these healthy lemon muffins.
Can I Freeze these Easy Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins?
I wouldn’t recommend it. These healthy lemon raspberry muffins are best enjoyed the first day. Since we’re using healthy, fresh ingredients, such as fresh raspberries (which are super juicy), the lemon raspberry muffins become moist very quickly and will spoil fast. For a longer lasting healthy lemon recipe, try my Vegan Soft Baked Lemon Donuts with Lemon Glaze! (Gluten Free). 🙂
How do I turn this Vegan Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins recipe into Lemon Bread?
Try my Easy Vegan Lemon Almond Poppy Seed Bread Recipe. Just leave out the poppy seeds (or don’t because: they’re amazing).
Can I Use Orange Juice in these Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins?
Yes! Swap the lemon juice for equal amounts of orange juice, and use orange zest instead of lemon zest. I mean, if healthy lemon raspberry muffins aren’t your thing, try these Healthy Gluten Free Orange Cardamom Muffins or this Easy Orange Muffins Recipe instead.
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What Can I Substitute in this Gluten Free Easy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe?
What Can I Substitute in this Gluten Free Easy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe?- Gluten free oat flour: swap with gluten free all purpose flour or homemade oat flour.
- Blanched almond flour: swap with almond meal, cashew flour or sunflower seed meal.
- Non-dairy milk: swap with your favorite vegan milk beverage.
- Lemon juice: swap with orange juice.
- Lemon zest: swap with orange zest.
- Coconut oil: swap with melted vegan butter or flavorless oil.
- Coconut sugar: sub with organic brown sugar or organic cane sugar.
- Maple syrup: sub with liquid sweetener. Try date syrup, agave or honey (if not vegan).
- Raspberries: swap with your favorite fresh fruit, like blueberries or blackberries, but not, like, a whole orange. Hehe!
- Note: keep in mind that this recipe is made just as written. 😉 So any changes made (small or big) can make a huge impact—it’s risky, folks! So experiment and have fun, but keep ya head up if it’s not perfect. Just try again or ask me for advice. 🙂
Happy Lemon Raspberry Muffins! <— Is it just me or does baking healthy gluten free muffins just brighten your day? Something about homemade can’t be beat. 😉 Especially when we’re baking with our loved ones. Sending you all my gratitude for baking with me. 🙂 I can’t wait to hear what you think!
Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️
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Healthy Gluten Free Vegan Muffins & Breads Recipes
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- Gluten Free Vegan Blueberry Applesauce Muffins (GF, Vegan)
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- Strawberry Lemon Muffins Recipe (V, GF)
- Lemon Glaze for Muffins & Bread
Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe – Easy Gluten Free Vegan Muffins!
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 10-12 muffins 1x
Description
Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe (GF, V): this moist ‘n easy lemon raspberry muffins recipe is gluten free & vegan! A healthy lemon raspberry muffins recipe that’s bursting with raspberry flavor. Gluten Free, Dairy-Free, Vegan, Refined Sugar-Free.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups gluten free oat flour – if using homemade, make sure it’s very finely ground, not coarse
- ½ cup finely ground, blanched almond flour*
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoons water
- ½ cup non-dairy milk
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- zest of 1 lemon (2 tablespoons)
- 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Add-in Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups fresh raspberries, washed & patted dry
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients.
- Add water and milk to a microwave-safe bowl. Heat in 10-second increments until just warm. This will prevent the melted coconut oil from solidifying once mixed with these liquids.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together all wet ingredients: water, milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, oil, sugar, maple syrup and vanilla. Whisk until well incorporated.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Whisk until just incorporated, making sure no flour patches remain. Gently fold in raspberries.
- Pour batter evenly into prepared muffin pan—filling each cup about ¾ of the way for a greater quantity of smaller muffins, or all the way to the top for a smaller quantity of big, domed-top muffins. Bake for 22-30 minutes. Mine took 26 minutes. Insert a toothpick to check for doneness—once it comes out mostly clean, it’s done.
- Place muffin pan on a cooling rack to cool for 20 minutes. Remove muffins from muffin pan and transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely, about 1-3 hours. Enjoy! Storing instructions below.
Adapted from my Healthy Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins.
More Healthy Lemon Recipes
Notes
- Best the first day. If keeping longer, store in the refrigerator for 1-2 more days (but not recommended). Best if eaten on the first day.
- Nutrition Information: is an estimate based on the best-selling, most common brands per ingredient. Also, it’s estimated based on 12 servings per recipe. 🙂
- Prep Time: 25 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Healthy Breakfast, Muffins, Gluten Free, Dairy-Free, Vegan, Refined Sugar-Free
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 muffin
- Calories: 187
- Sugar: 8g
- Sodium: 62mg
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Carbohydrates: 25g
- Fiber: 4g
- Protein: 4g
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Best Tools for Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins (Gluten Free, Vegan)
Click the links below to see the tools & ingredients used to make this gluten free lemon raspberry muffins recipe.
- Muffin Pans – my favorite muffin pans! I use these day in and day out.
- Cookie Scoop – an absolute baker’s essential. Great for uniform scooping and distribution of muffin batter.
- Citrus Zester – so easy to use! Perfect for achieving a fine zest that really brings out the lemon flavor.
- Almond Flour – my favorite almond flour brand. Super finely ground, great quality and taste. Perfect in these healthy lemon raspberry muffins!
- Citrus Squeezer – another kitchen essential when you’re working with lemons. Gets so much juice out of those fruits!
- Gluten Free Oat Flour – use this, or try making your own at home with this homemade oat flour recipe.
- Coconut Oil – an absolute vegan gluten free baking essential.
- Coconut Sugar – great for keeping this healthy muffin recipe refined sugar-free.
Which flour can i use instead of almond? My son is allergic to nuts…
Hi there! You can try sunflower seed meal or cashew meal. Hope this helps!
Really good. I swapped the coconut oil for almond butter to make it healthier and they were absolutely delicious. The kids loved them too and the entire batch disappeared quickly!
Fantastic! Oooh, I love that swap–it’s ingenious! Bonus: you got to sneak in healthy and delicious almond butter! I’m so glad to hear that you and your kiddos loved my recipe. Thanks for taking the time to let me know. Enjoy!
Can you substitute the oat flour with another gf flour?
You’ll be able use gluten free all purpose flour with variable results. I’ve noticed that all GF all purpose purpose flours work differently, depending on brand. Let me know how it turns out for you and what brand you tried! 🙂
Oh my! I made these last night and they were amazing even the next day. I ran out of coconut oil, so I subbed it with avocado oil instead. I also used rice milk as my milk option. It was perfect. I get excited when I find tasty gluten-free, vegan breakfast options. I will try with this blueberries next! Hopefully you can create a nut free version of this too.
Yay!!! Isn’t it the best when your baked goods are even better the next day? 🙂 Loved hearing about your subs and how they turned out. Nut free: not to worry, I’m working on that as we speak. Enjoy. 🙂
I was wondering if you had a replacement for the almond flour? we have a nut free household but I really want to bake these delicious looking muffins
Hi Allegra, unfortunately no. I know a few readers have tried subbing the almond flour with half the amount of additional GF oat flour with some luck—but I’m currently working on a nut-free muffin batter and I wasn’t satisfied with the texture when I did so. It’s up to you if you want to give it a shot. Good luck! I’ll be sure to share the nut free version as soon as I can. 🙂
Would agave work instead of the maple syrup?
Hi Brittany! I haven’t tried it myself, so I can’t say for sure. It should be fine, but let me know how it goes!
Oh, these look perfect! . Can I use frosen rasberry instead of fresh? ..
Hi Maria! I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve had readers use frozen berries in other muffins with good results. Let me know how it turns out! 🙂
Raspberry and lemon are THE spring/summer combo! Love these muffins, I can east as many as I want with no guilt! Thanks for the recipe!
Couldn’t agree more Eden! . Happy spring baking!
I just wanted to come back and let you know I made these the other day and they turned out great! Followed the instructions and no issues. Great recipe!
Woohoo! I’m so happy to hear it Heidy! .
Looking forward to trying these fresh muffins for breakfast all week along side some fresh fruit…yum!
Yay! I think you’ll really love them Kathi! .
I was always a sucker for apple-based desserts as a kid but not other fruit-based desserts. These muffins look amazing though and perfect for an easy breakfast morsel!!
Oh you’ve totally got that right Luci! .
Terrific photos. Love the raspberries peek through the top of the muffins. I definitely want to try these.
Thanks Jill! Hope you enjoy.
These Muffins look so cute. Love the Berry option to these amazing looking Muffins. Delicious
Thanks Veena! .
These were so good! I loved it!!
Woohoo! So glad to hear it Toni!
What a great muffin recipe! I love how you have turned it into a healthy recipe. I don’t have to feel guilty if I eat two of these one morning. Yum’d to save for later.
Nope, no feeling guilty here! . Thanks Heidy!
These are just perfect! I love lemon and raspberry together so I know I’ll love these, and the fact that they are healthy is a bonus!
Haha the best kind of bonus! 😉 Thanks Michelle!
These muffins look like the perfect combination of fresh flavours! Such a great idea to combine lemon and raspberries. Can’t wait to try them!
Oh yes, so wonderfully fresh and tasty! Hope you enjoy them Tania! 🙂