Sweet cinnamon flavor explosion – The Best Easy Snickerdoodle Muffins Recipe is a delicious light muffin with an airy crumb and tons of snickerdoodle cookie flavor!

Toss it all in one bowl, mix, and bake for these snickerdoodle muffins that taste amazing and are so easy anyone can make them!

If you love soft, springy, sweet and cinnamon-y snickerdoodle cookies, you will LOVE these delicious easy Snickerdoodle Muffins!

These muffins are to-die-for delicious, as this special sour cream snickerdoodle muffin recipe stays perfectly moist and delicious for a never-dry muffin that tastes like you just took it out of the oven!

I am including easy tips for how to make healthy snickerdoodle muffins and ways you can take this recipe to the next level – so be sure to not miss all of my notes on making the best snickerdoodle muffins ever in this handy recipe that is sure to be your favorite breakfast treat ever!

If you’d rather skip my (very helpful, i think) tips and tricks, essential cooking info, and similar recipe ideas – and get straight to this easy Snickerdoodle Muffin recipe, simply scroll to the bottom of the page where you can find the printable recipe card.

Snickerdoodle muffins with sour cream stay moist, delicious, and crave-able – they don’t dry out, and keep the just-baked fresh flavor you crave so much longer.

Baking with sour cream not only makes your muffins stay perfect – with a never-dry texture everyone loves, even days after baking (haha, like I could ever keep these tasty muffins around that long!) – but sour cream also has a lot of other benefits when added to a recipe!

Sour cream is packed with healthy fat, and brings a ton of nutrients to a dish, and doesn’t weigh down breads and muffins like more butter can.

It doesn’t get oily, greasy, or separate – just folds in for lovely rich and creamy flavor that is perfect in baked goods.

If you don’t have sour cream on hand for this recipe, swap the same amount of greek yogurt for a delicious and slightly lighter twist.

To make “marbled” snickerdoodle muffins (with pockets/swirls of sour cream), mix the muffins less.

For smooth, perfectly blended muffins, mix sour cream into muffins completely but do not overwork flour.

These snickerdoodle muffins make amazingly fun and delicious snickerdoodle mini muffins – and will result in a lot more muffins!

This snickerdoodle muffin recipe will make about 36 mini muffins – and will need more cinnamon sugar to roll the mini muffins in since there will be a lot more surface area to roll in the sugar.

Add 2-3 tbsp cinnamon sugar to a dish for rolling the mini muffins in if you decide to make snickerdoodle mini muffins with this recipe!

These snickerdoodle muffins REALLY rise – so be sure not to overfill your mini muffin pans.

These muffins are fresh, delicious, soft, and amazing – but can be made even more amazing with some healthy muffin baking swaps!

I am outlining my favorite healthy snickerdoodle muffin ingredient substitutions below:

If you want to lighten up these muffins and find a delicious, easy substitute for butter in muffins, I have you covered! These lighter butter substitutes will help you cut the butter from this recipe.

• Swap Butter for Applesauce. 
  • Swap butter for 1/2 the amount of applesauce in a recipe – so for these Snickerdoodle Muffins you’d use 1/2 cup applesauce.
• Avocado. 
  • Avocado will change the color of these light muffins – but you can swap 1 cup butter for 1 cup mashed avocado for a delicious, creamy, and fiber filled swap for butter in muffins!

• Coconut Oil.
  • While this substitute might give a subtle coconut flavor, you can easily swap coconut oil for a healthier butter alternative. Use a 1:1 substitute ratio.
• Buttermilk. 
  • This isn’t a healthier swap – but if you’re looking for something to use in place of butter when baking, you can use a 1:1/2 ratio of buttermilk. This is handy when you’ve run out of butter but want to bake muffins without oil!

I am working on a keto/paleo version of this recipe, and haven’t quite nailed the texture I want yet for soft, light, and airy keto snickerdoodle muffins.

While you stay tuned for that, and are looking for a gluten-free swap, I suggest an all-purpose gluten free flour (like those from King Arthur Flour or Bob’s Red Mill) that rely on rice and other lighter flours versus heavier nut flour blends, since snickerdoodles really rely on the light, springy, and soft flour texture.

If you love these delicious easy snickerdoodle muffins, you’re going to love these other deliciously easy breakfast ideas. Click the link to head to some of my all time favorite easy breakfast recipes:

Slow Cooker Sausage Hashbrown and Egg Breakfast Casserole

Red Spinach and Mushroom Frittata

Cake Mix Fruit and Yogurt Muffins

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