Pumpkin Muffins with Maple Butter Filling
You know what I love about quick bread recipes? If you have time to mix up the batter but not to bake it into bread (which usually takes close to an hour) you can just make it into muffins!
Yay for shortcuts!
These use the same batter as my pumpkin bread, which is what I intended to make, but since I didn’t get it done yesterday as I had planned but still wanted to eat pumpkin bread for breakfast, it ended up in the form of muffins.The beauty of it is the recipe makes two loaves of bread so I made one loaf and one tray of muffins.
As I was getting some pumpkin out of the fridge I came across the maple butter I had made a couple weeks ago and thought, hmmm, I bet that would go nicely with these. So I put a dollop on each muffin before baking them and it did turn out rather nicely.
FOR THE MAPLE BUTTER- ¾ cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup water
- 3-4 tablespoons pumpkin puree
- 1-2 tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp nutmeg
FOR THE MUFFINS - 2½ cups flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1½ teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 cup oil
- 4 eggs
- ⅔ cup water
- 2 cups pumpkin
- chopped pecans (optional)
- Start with making the maple butter so it can cool a bit before you use it.
- Melt butter in a skillet over low heat.
- Stir in remaining ingredients, whisking until smooth and sugar dissolves.
- To make the muffins preheat the oven to 350º. Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray or line with paper cups.
- In a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer combine, both flours, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, stir to combine.
- Mix in the oil, water, eggs and pumpkin and stir, scraping down the sides until smooth.
- Add the nuts if you want to.
- Scoop the batter into each muffin tin so they are about ¾ of the way full. Spoon about a tablespoon worth of the maple butter into the center of each muffin, pressing it into the batter a little as you scoop it in.
- Bake about 18 minutes. Allow to cool for a few minutes in the tray, then run a knife around the edges and remove from tray to cool or to eat.
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