Egg Free Confetti Mini Muffins

Confetti mini muffins are a cute, festive snack for any age! It starts with a simple egg-free vanilla muffin base, with rainbow sprinkles added to the batter for color and fun.

My easy egg free confetti mini muffins are vanilla flavored and slightly sweetened. They’re inspired by the Little Bites party cake muffins (or Funfetti cake). However, my homemade egg free version is made with simple ingredients and far less sugar (without sacrificing flavor!).

In fact, my favorite thing about these confetti/funfetti mini muffins is that they’re less sweet. The packaged varieties taste more like a cupcake than a muffin to me. These soft vanilla muffins are slightly buttery with just the right amount of sweetness.

This recipe also easy enough for young helpers to lend a hand in the kitchen, too. My 4 year old daughter loves helping with these!

Try some of my other egg free muffin and bread recipes pictured below!

We were browsing Costco recently, and my son spotted some of the Little Bites party mini muffins. With his food allergies, I always pause when it comes to store-bought goodies. I checked the (very long) label, and decided we’d come up with our own egg free confetti muffins at home!

We’re definitely not opposed to store-bought snacks in our house. However, with food allergies, it can be hard to tell which ones are safe. Many of the allergy label warnings are discretionary (such as the “may contain” statements). I send these egg free confetti muffins to school for my son’s snack, and feel better about my simple ingredients.

These egg free confetti mini muffins would also work as a quick weekday breakfast! It can easily be rounded out by serving with fruit and a protein. They taste better fresh, so we eat ours within a couple of days of baking (which isn’t a problem). 😉

What You’ll Need

For eggless confetti mini muffins, you’ll need a simple list of ingredients:

• Granulated sugar
• Butter and Vegetable oil (or other neutral flavored oil) – the combination of fats gives these muffins a fluffy texture with the flavor of butter
• Milk provides the liquid content
• Applesauce (plain, unsweetened) provides moisture and works as a binder
• Vanilla extract for flavor
• Dry ingredients: all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt
• Last but not least: sprinkles! I’ve tried both classic “jimmy” style sprinkles, and nonpareils, and both worked out great.

How to Make Eggless Confetti Mini Muffins

1. Preheat oven to 400F, and spray mini muffin tin with cooking spray.
2. Stir together all wet ingredients (including granulated sugar) in a mixing bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, stir together all dry ingredients, including the sprinkles.
4. Stir dry ingredients into wet, just until ingredients are combined. Do not over-stir batter.
5. Immediately spoon batter into mini muffin tin, filling each about 2/3 – 3/4 full. You’ll get around 24-30 muffins.
6. Bake muffins for 9 minutes, or until tops are rounded and muffins are baked through.

A Note on Sprinkles

A note on the sprinkles: I’ve tried both the classic “jimmy” style sprinkles (think of the ones you see on donuts) and nonpareils. Both turned out great! The nonpareils didn’t dissolve as well as the classic sprinkles, but both gave the mini muffins that fun confetti/funfetti look.