Raspberry Lemon Heart Muffins

INGREDIENTS
STREUSEL MIX
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup organic cane sugar
- 2 Tablespoons of chilled butter
- Dash of fine sea salt
- Artificial dye-free red food coloring
MUFFIN MIX
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup organic coconut sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3/4 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 2 brown eggs
- 5 Tablespoons canola oil
- 3 Tablespoons thoroughly melted butter
- 2 teaspoons organic pure vanilla extract (alcohol-free)
- Zest of 1 entire ripe lemon
- 1/2-3/4 cup organic raspberry jelly with or without seeds (I did half and half)
DIRECTIONS
- Pre-heat oven to 400F degrees, convection fan off
- Mix together dry muffin ingredients and wet muffin ingredients separately except for the jelly–leave aside to add last
- Once your batter is mixed, add jelly and gently mix. Do not fully incorporate. You want to see some clumps or lines of jelly throughout the batter
- Mix together streusel ingredients using a fork and your hands to incorporate the chilled butter. You want it to get sandy feeling, but you don’t want the butter to melt
- Add 4 drops of food dye and mix with fork and hands again until pink–doesn’t haven’t to be perfect!
- Spray silicone heart muffin mold with oil
- Fill each heart with batter almost to top
- Then generously sprinkle streusel on top of each
- Bake for 18 minutes, let cool and then remove from silicone mold
When mixing butter for streusel, use a fork and your hands, but continuously stir, covering butter in streusel mix. This helps it not melt from warmth of hands as much or clump together