The Best Pumpkin Muffins That Make You Happy

Mireille · 10/17/2019 at 3:37 pm

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It is easy and made with this easy homemade pumpkin spice and delicious pumpkin puree. Decorate with your favorite toppings and serve for breakfast. This is fall baking at its best. So, are you ready to learn how to make this pumpkin muffin recipe? Let’s get started!

What You Need For This Recipe

Now be prepared for an extensive number of ingredients to make this recipe. It seems like a lot but just like many baking recipes, you can divide them into wet and dry ingredients. Besides wet and dry ingredients this recipe also has a topping.

Put the following ingredients on your grocery shopping list:

Flour – these muffins are made with Spelt flour but you can also make them with all-purpose flour or wheat flour
Salt – to enhance the flavor of the other ingredients
Cinnamon – adds a warming flavor to the muffins
Baking powder – helps lift the muffins
Stevia – to sweeten the muffins
Eggs – use large eggs
Pumpkin puree – you can easy make this yourself
Coconut oil – gives the muffins a moist texture
Milk – you can use regular milk or plant-based milk
Vanilla sugar or vanilla extract
Flavoring – use pumpkin spice to flavor your muffins. You can make this spice mix from scratch

Topping

Sugar – granulated sugar
Pecans – finely chop the pecan
Spice – pumpkin spice

Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.

How To Make Pumpkin Muffins

To make easy pumpkin muffins start by preheating the oven to 375℉/190℃. You need to combine the dry and wet ingredients separately.
The main reason for this is, that as soon as the baking powder gets wet it gets activated. So you want it in the oven as soon as the batter is done.
By first combining all the dry ingredients you make sure the ingredients are evenly distributed. So put the Spelt flour, vanilla sugar, salt, stevia, cinnamon, and baking powder in a separate bowl and stir well.
Also, add pumpkin spice to flavor it up some more.
Then combine all the wet ingredients, including the milk, eggs, and pumpkin puree. Let the coconut oil go liquid in the microwave or a pan.
Let it cool to the touch before adding it to the wet ingredients. If the coconut oil is too hot it will split the eggs. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and make sure all of the dry ingredients are covered with the wet.
Take an ice scoop and divide the pumpkin mix over a muffin pan.
For the topping, chop the pecans finely and combine them with the sugar and pumpkin spice. Sprinkle the mix on the muffins and put them in the oven.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a bamboo skewer comes out clean. Let the muffins cool and serve.

Delicious Pumpkin Muffin Recipe

Honestly, I’m not a fan of fall or winter. It is cold outside, raining all the time, the days are short and spring seems like a million years away.

But what can you do when you can’t control the seasons? Try to run and hide or embrace fall and get baking with pumpkin.

Because when fall comes around there is no denying, that it is time for pumpkin and pumpkin baking. It is just impossible to ignore pumpkins at this time of year.

Whether you make pumpkin puree from scratch or use canned puree you can use pumpkin in a lot of your recipes. Just as with these pumpkin muffins, it is a basic muffin recipe but with the right ingredients, you get that autumn feeling.

These muffins are warm, soft, moist and delicious. You need quite several recipes but making these muffins is an easy task.

Pumpkin Muffin Topping Options

To make these muffins even tastier I used pecans but you can easily add or substitute for other ingredients like:

Walnuts
Raisins
Chocolate chips
Chocolate nibs
Oats
Brown sugar

Can You Make Pumpkin Muffins Vegan?

You can easily turn these muffins into a vegan version. All you need to do is substitute the eggs for aquafaba.

What is Aquafaba?

That is the liquid that is inside a can of chickpeas or kidney beans. When you put dried beans in water it will turn into aquafaba.

As chickpea aquafaba doesn’t have any color this is the preferable option. You can even whip aquafaba into a meringue.

It has the same light and airy characteristics as egg whites.

See How To Make Muffins With Aquafaba

If you want to see how you can make muffins using aquafaba? Take a look at the video instructions on the recipe card.

It will give you step-by-step instructions and show how easy it is to make these soft and fluffy muffins which are great when you make pumpkin muffins.

More Muffin Recipes

If you love these muffins take a look at these easy recipes as well:

Have fun with this pumpkin muffin recipe!

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Pumpkin Muffins

Mireille

Serves: 12 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes

Embrace the fall and start baking these pumpkin muffins with pecans and pumpkin spice. You can make them vegan or regular.

Ingredients

1½ cups Spelt flour
225-gram pumpkin
½ cup of coconut oil
¼ cup milk
½ tablespoon vanilla sugar or ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs or 6 tablespoons of aquafaba
2 teaspoons baking powder
2-3 teaspoons stevia
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon pumpkin spice
Topping
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon chopped pecans
¼ teaspoon pumpkin spice

Instructions

Preheat the oven 375℉/190℃
Combine all dry ingredients Spelt flour, vanilla sugar, salt, stevia, cinnamon and baking powder in a separate bowl. Add the pumpkin spice. Stir well so the ingredients are evenly distributed
Combine the wet ingredients milk, eggs, and pumpkin. Let the coconut oil go liquid in the microwave. Let it cool before adding it to the wet ingredients
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and make sure all of the dry ingredients are covered
Take an ice scoop and divide the pumpkin mix over a muffin pan
Chop pecans finely and combine with the sugar and pumpkin spice. Sprinkle the mix on the muffins and put in the oven
Bake for 25 minutes or until a bamboo skewer comes out clean
Let them cool and serve

The Best Pumpkin Muffins That Make You Happy

What You Need For This Recipe

How To Make Pumpkin Muffins

Delicious Pumpkin Muffin Recipe

Pumpkin Muffin Topping Options