I have three teen-agers who obviously have their own lives and interests, but the one way to insure they spend an hour of their day in my company is our afternoon coffee and cards ritual. It doesn't have to be coffee, sometimes we have tea or hot chocolate. And we don't have to play cards; they got Rummikub for Christmas, and we're having a lot of fun with that. But I do have to offer them something sweet to eat, and feeling as I do about artificial ingredients and preservatives, I try to make it homemade as often as possible.
These were quick and easy to bake, and tasty to eat, with a distinctive pumpkin flavor.
These lovely muffins contributed to a very cozy hour in a stormy winter afternoon. Not too sweet, and not too heavy.
I made 7 kinds of Christmas cookies this year, providing a break from my baking-with-pumpkin experiments, but now we're back at it. Today we tried Cinnamon-sugar Pumpkin Muffins.
These were quick and easy to bake, and tasty to eat, with a distinctive pumpkin flavor.
Cinnamon-sugar Pumpkin Muffins
Dry ingredients:
1 cup plus 2 tbsp flour
2 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp Ground cloves
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1/2 tsp Allspice
Wet ingredients:
3/4 cup Sugar
1/4 cup Light brown sugar
3/4 cup Pumpkin puré
1/4 cup Milk
2 tbsp Molasses
1/3 cup Vegetable oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl, and all the wet in another. Then add the wet mix to the dry and stir until just blended. Fill muffin tins 3/4 full, and bake at 200*C (400*F) for 19 minutes. Easy right?
When they have cooled enough to handle, you can roll them in 1/3 cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp cinnamon.
These lovely muffins contributed to a very cozy hour in a stormy winter afternoon. Not too sweet, and not too heavy.
This recipe was adapted from one found on Averiecooks.com. Averie's recipe was vegan, and required things like coconut oil, almond milk and mini muffin forms, that I didn't have, but still the credit goes to her for the creative ingenuity.
Still lots of pumpkin in the freezer, so let me know if you have any great recipes!
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