• 1/2 cup fresh cranberries - chopped discard berries that are not firm-textured
• 2 tbsp Bobs Red Mill egg re-placer if you use a different brand, follow package directions for a mixture that equals 2 eggs
• 4 tbsp water for mixingwith egg-re-placer
• 2 tbsp butter.- at room temp for vegan muffins, use vegan butter of your choice, or (1 1/2 tbsp coconut oil +1/2 tsp water)
• 5 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 cup milk - at room temp whole milk preferred; for vegan muffins, swap with preferred non-dairy milk; if using coconut milk, make a mixture of 1/4 cup coconut mmilk + 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 tsp very thinly slivered fresh orange peel - optional ; if you wish, you can use 1/4 tsp orange flavoring
• 1 1/2 tsp oil - for greasing the paper liners peanut or canola oil preferred; do NOT use olive oil for this purpose;

For Dry Mix

• 6 tbsp Rolled oats - it reduces to 5 1/2 tbsp after crushing crushed to coarse powder with hands; or pulse grind to a coarse texture with an electric grinder - do NOT grind to a fine powder
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour can also use self-rising flour - if so, decrease baking powder to 1/2 tsp from 1 tsp
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tbsp walnuts - chopped coarsely
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon ground
• 1 pinch salt - about 1/2 of 1/8 tsp, or even less do not omit entirely - irt helps to balance the taste

Streusel topping

• 1 tbsp walnuts- chopped
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp butter
• 1 pinch cinnamon ground