pumpkin pie muffins

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51 Pinches
Mio, MI
Updated on Oct 26, 2011

This creative muffin seams to be a wedding between a pumpkin pie and a pecan pie. The blessed union created a muffin you just can't stop eating. I top these with this mix before baking for a true bakery experience http://www.justapinch.com/recipe/stormy-stewart/pumpkin-spice-mix/quick-easy-other-sauce-spread

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yield 12 muffins

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon each; ginger and nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon cloves
  • 1/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
  • 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 3 tablespoons molasses
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
  • 3/4 cup chopped dates (optional)

How To Make pumpkin pie muffins

  • Step 1
    Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease twelve muffin cups. In a large bowl,stir together first 9 ingredients. In another bowl, stir together pumpkin, butter, buttermilk, eggs, molasses and vanilla until blended. Make a well in center of dry ingredients; add pumpkin mixture and stir just to combine. Stir in pecans and dates. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in center of one muffin comes out clean. Remove to wire rack. Cool 5 minutes before removing muffins from cups; finish cooling on rack.

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