Recipe- Easy To Bake Pumpkin Streusel Muffins

There are pumpkins everywhere. Literally. Yesterday I went to Trader Joe’s and all I could see was pumpkin and pumpkin products. There was pumpkin butter, pumpkin bars, pumpkin chai, pumpkin cereal, pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin granola, pumpkin oatmeal and 10,000 other stuff which I can’t seem to remember! Didn’t I say there are pumpkins everywhere! There’s no escaping them during this time of the year. And so it was obvious that I couldn’t have stayed away from a pumpkin recipe for too long.

Ingredients

Streusel Topping

3 tablespoon butter unsalted, melted
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup rolled oats

Muffin

1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1.25 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup greek yogurt
1 cup pumpkin puree [not pumpkin pie filling]
white chocolate chips to sprinkle on top [optional]

Method

Make the streusel

* In a bowl mix together all purpose flour, oats, light brown sugar and cinnamon powder.

* Melt butter in the microwave till completely melted.

* Add the melted butter to the dry ingredients and mix till the mixture resembles bread crumbs. Set aside.

Muffin

*Line a muffin tray with liners or spray with a non-stick spray. Set aside.

* Preheat oven to 425 F degrees.

* In a bowl whisk together all purpose flour, cinnamon powder, pumpkin pie spice, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside.

* In the steel bowl of your stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment or using your hand mixer, beat together eggs and granulated sugar till well combined, around 2 minutes.

* Add in the vanilla, greek yogurt and oil and mix till everything is well combined.

* Add in the pumpkin puree and mix.

* Start adding the dry ingredients into the wet. Add the dry ingredients in 3 parts, mixing after each addition.

* Mix in till the batter is just combined. Do not overmix.

* Pour batter into the liners/muffin pan and fill it all the way to the top.

* Sprinkle each muffin with around 1 tablespoon streusel. Also sprinkle some white chocolate chips [if using].

* Bake at 425 F degrees for 5 minutes, lower the temperature to 350 F degrees and bake for another 15-17 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Mine were done in 15 minutes.

* Let the muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring them onto a wire rack to cool completely.