Whole Grain Pumpkin Spice Muffins Recipes

HEALTHY WHOLE WHEAT SPICED PUMPKIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
• Place dried cranberries in a bowl with hot water to cover. Let stand to rehydrate, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, mix flour, 1/2 cup sugar, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves together in a large bowl.
• Whisk egg whites together in a separate bowl. Gently fold in pumpkin puree, applesauce, honey, molasses, and vanilla extract.
• Create a well in the flour mixture and fold in pumpkin mixture. Mix until just combined. Drain water from cranberries and fold into the batter.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each almost full. Top each muffin with additional cranberries, a sprinkle of sugar, and a dash of pumpkin spice.
• Bake muffins in the preheated oven until tops are no longer sticky and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out mostly clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.

PUMPKIN WHOLE GRAIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F and grease 18 1/2-cup muffin cups.
• In a bowl whisk together applesauce, pumpkin, greek yogurt, eggs, molasses, honey (or agave) and vanilla.
• Into a large bowl sift together flour and oats, baking powder, spices, salt, and baking soda.
• Make a well in center of flour mixture and add pumpkin mixture, stirring just until combined.
• Stir in nuts and divide batter among cups.
• Bake muffins in middle of oven 20 to 25 minutes, or until puffed and a tester comes out clean.
• Cool muffins in cups 5 minutes and turn out onto a rack. Serve muffins warm or at room temperature.

WHOLE WHEAT PUMPKIN-APPLESAUCE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line the cups with paper muffin liners.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice; set aside. Combine the brown sugar, white sugar, oil, applesauce, pumpkin, buttermilk, and beaten eggs and mix until well blended. Pour the pumpkin mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until combined. Fold in the raisins and pecans, if desired.
• Divide the batter evenly in the prepared muffin pan. Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the muffin pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes before removing the muffins from the pan.