Tis The Season for Pumpkin

Pumpkin Spice Muffins

Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup each granulated sugar and packed light brown sugar
• 6 Tbsp unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tsp each ground cinnamon and vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp each baking powder and baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 2 large eggs plus 2 large egg whites
• 1 1/4 cups pumpkin purre
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries, halved

Maple Drizzle

• 2/3 cup confectioner's sugar
• 3 Tbsp pure maple syrup

Garnish: toasted pumpkin seeds

Preparation

1. Heat oven to 350F. You'll need 20 muffin cups lined with paper liners. Beat sugars, butter, spices, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl with mixer on medium speed 2 minutes until blended.
2. Beat in eggs and whites. Beat in pumpkin puree on low speed until just combined. Alternately beat in flour, then milk, until just blended. Stir in berries.
3. Put 1/4 cup batter in each muffin cup. Bake 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes in pans on rack, remove from pans and cool completely.
4. Drizzle: Up to 4 hours before serving, stir ingredients in small bowl until smooth. Scrape into a small ziptop bag. Cut a small tip from one corner of bag and drizzle over cupcakes. Garnish with pumpkin seeds.

Yield

20 muffins

Nutritional Information

Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 177
Total Fat: 5g
Saturated Fat: 3g
Cholesterol: 32mg
Sodium: 189mg
Total Carbohydrates: 31g
Dietary Fiber: 1g
Protein 3g