Pumpkin Muffins @MaddieDayAuthor #Halloween #giveaway

MADDIE DAY here with a yummy pre-trick-or-treating snack. When my sons were much younger, I always tried to get some kind of healthy, non-sweet early supper into them before they ventured out to collect massive amounts of candy. 

These muffins aren't too sweet, are fast to throw together, and can be eaten on the run. Plus, pumpkins are the essence of Halloween, aren't they?

Pumpkin Muffins

Ingredients

The alert reader will notice I forgot to include rolled oats in the photo, but they are in the muffins!

Ingredients

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground ginger

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1 ¾ cups whole wheat flour

⅓ cup old-fashioned oats

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/3 cup oil

½ cup maple syrup or honey

1 cup pumpkin purée

¼ cup milk

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a standard muffin tin.

Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Break eggs into the dry mix and stir with a fork.

Add other wet ingredients and stir in with a fork until just mixed.

Spoon into the prepared muffin tin. Bake about 20 minutes until tops are golden brown. Cool on a wire rack, then remove from pan. 

Enjoy with your breakfast or as an afternoon snack! 

Readers: What's your favorite kind of muffin? Look, I found one more ARC of Deadly Crush to give away, and it even has an orange cover!

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Murder Uncorked, Cece Barton Mystery #1, which released in late October in hardcover and is now in mass market paperback.

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.