When pumpkin season rolls around, you can always find me in the kitchen making pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin bars, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin cheesecake bars or these amazingly delicious pumpkin muffins. The muffins taste like they came straight from a fancy bakery! If you’re a fan of pumpkin baked goods, you’ll definitely be in love with these pumpkin muffins. These treats have the perfect amount of sweetness and pumpkin spice, and the streusel topping adds so much flavor and texture. It’s my favorite of all the pumpkin muffin recipes, and it makes for a great dessert or breakfast option.
Pumpkin Muffins Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need eggs, granulated sugar, pumpkin puree, oil, flour, baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla extract, salt, brown sugar, butter, powdered sugar and heavy cream.
How Do You Make Pumpkin Muffins?
Place the eggs, sugar and pumpkin puree in a large bowl, then whisk until smooth. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, then stir until a smooth batter forms. Pour the batter into a 12 cup muffin pan. To make the streusel, combine flour, brown sugar, butter and pumpkin pie spice until coarse crumbs form. Sprinkle the streusel evenly over the muffins, then bake. Cool the muffins completely, then prepare the glaze by whisking together powdered sugar, cream and vanilla. Drizzle the glaze over the muffins, then serve and enjoy.
Tips For The Perfect Muffins
Watching your calories? You can substitute unsweetened applesauce for half of the oil with good results. If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice in the house, you can use cinnamon with a pinch of ground ginger, cloves and nutmeg mixed in. You can either use paper muffin liners, or simply spray the muffin tin with cooking spray before pouring in the batter. The batter and streusel can be made in advance and refrigerated for up to one day before use. Store the batter and streusel separately until you’re ready to combine everything to bake. Be sure to use pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling. They are two different products but the cans look similar.
Pumpkin muffin variations
These muffins are absolutely delicious as is, but you can change up the flavors to suit your tastes.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese: Mix together 8 ounces of softened cream cheese with 1/4 cup sugar, 1 egg and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Place a dollop of the cream cheese mixture into each muffin cup of pumpkin batter and swirl with a toothpick. Proceed with the rest of the recipe as directed. Chocolate Chip: Add 1 cup of chocolate chips to the batter, proceed with the rest of the recipe as directed. Pumpkin Nut: Add 3/4 cup of chopped nuts such as walnuts or pecans to the batter, proceed with the rest of the recipe as directed. Pumpkin Banana: Add 1 mashed banana to the batter, then proceed with the rest of the recipe. Nutella: Swirl 1 teaspoon of Nutella into each muffin cup of pumpkin batter, then add the streusel and glaze as directed.
I make these sweet and delicious muffins all year round, they’re just that good!
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