Saturday, November 19, 2022

Pumpkin Streusel Muffins #Recipe @PegCochran #Thanksgiving

 

We are going to my daughter's for Thanksgiving (technically her in-laws are hosting the dinner.)  She lives outside Chicago about four hours away depending on traffic!  Since I'm not cooking the big Thanksgiving dinner, I decided to make these pumpkin streusel muffins to bring along for breakfast Thanksgiving day.  They are delicious--moist inside with that wonderful streusel top and the sweet drizzle of maple sugar glaze.  I did encounter one problem while making them--I discovered I didn't have any pumpkin pie spice!  Crisis! And what's pumpkin without some spice?  Fortunately I had all the spices necessary to whip up my own--allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.  The maple sugar glaze is optional but it really does add that certain je ne sais quoi, that extra something, that takes these over the top. The recipe (mostly from Sally's Baking Addiction) is supposed to make 15 muffins but I filled my muffin tins really full so I made a dozen. 

** The quantities for the maple sugar glaze made more than enough for another dozen muffins so you might want to cut it in half.

Ingredients

1 and 3/4 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup packed light or dark brown sugar

1 and 1/2 cups pumpkin puree

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1/4 cup milk

 

Crumb Topping

3/4 cup all-purpose flour 

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup packed light or dark brown sugar

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

6 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

 

Maple Icing (optional)

1 and 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar

2 Tablespoons pure maple syrup

2 Tablespoons milk

 

 

Make the muffins:

 

Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees.

 

Mix all the dry ingredients except sugar: flour, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and salt.


In another bowl, mix the oil, sugar, pumpkin puree, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, eggs and milk.  Mix thoroughly.


Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and gently mix until combined.

Spoon the batter into your muffin tins or molds.

 

Make Streusel Topping:

Mix flour, sugars and pumpkin pie spice together.  Add melted butter and using a fork, very gently mix and toss until crumbs form. Don't over mix--be very gentle! Spoon on top of muffins.


 

Bake at 425 degrees for five minutes then lower the temperature to 350 degrees. Bake for approximately 16 to 17 minutes more.

 


Make the Icing:

Mix the confectioner's sugar, pumpkin pie spice, maple syrup and milk together until it forms a glaze that you can drizzle.  Drizzle it over the muffins.


Happy Thanksgiving!

 

I don't know if the British bake with pumpkin but I think these muffins would make a perfect addition to the fare at Figgy's teashop inside the Open Book in my Open Book Series. Of course, they don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but they do have Guy Fawkes Night on November 5, which will be featured in A Deadly Dedication, my fourth Open Book due out in August of 2023.


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6 comments:

  1. The muffins sound so delicious. Thank you for the recipe!
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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  2. Streusal makes everything better. And a maple flavored drizzle? So much more so!

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  3. Oh my! Those muffins look SO good!

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  4. Thank you for the recipe I have pinned it. deborahortega229@yahoo.com

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