Raspberry Lemon Heart Muffins

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