Mumpkin puffins

18 October 2007

~~Susan Reimer’s~~ My pumpkin muffins are very yummy indeed and are in fact the sole reason I grow pumpkins from time to time. And am I wondering if I can fit a vine … or two … on my patch again next year? Why yes, yes I am.

I’m not a particularly fast baker, preferring to watch pretty colours combine as I stir, or to wait and see if that last drop of milk will ever make it out of the jug and into the bowl. So also stopping every two seconds to take photos of what I was doing didn’t exactly serve to make this the fastest batch of muffins I’d ever made. There was also the Crisis of Oh Crap, This Pumpkin’s Way Too Runny. That young pumpkin I’d rescued from the garden during 7 Days produced enough flesh for a batch of muffins, but it turned out to have far too little bulk to it having been harvested so early. So that got dumped and I used another helping from the freezer … which might have been butternut squash, but whatever, it was orange and mushy.

Pumpkin muffins

255g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp each of ground ginger, nutmeg and cloves
110 – 170g granulated sugar
1 egg
90ml milk
3 tbsp honey
200ml / 1 cup pumpkin
85g butter, melted
85g raisins

1. Prepare muffin tins. Preheat oven to 375-400ºF / 190-200ºC / Gas Mark 5-6.
2. In a large bowl, sift together: flour baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, spices and sugar.
3. In a separate bowl, beat egg with a fork. Add milk, honey, pumpkin and melted butter. Stir well.
4. Pour all of liquid mixture into dry. Stir just until combined and no dry flour is visible. Add raisins during the final strokes.
5. Spoon batter into tins. Bake for 20-25 mins, until tops spring back when pressed gently.

Recipe: “Muffins – Fast and fantastic” by Susan Reimer

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dreamdust » The Great Pumpkin Massacre of 2007
17th December 2007 @ 5:39 pm

[...] trying to fit other things into the drawers. It’s also just enough pumpkin to make 468 pumpkin muffins, which should be more than enough to see us through [...]