Pumpkin Streusel Muffins

Delicious Pumpkin Streusel Muffins made with buttery streusel and pumpkin puree, an ultimate fall favorite breakfast.

As I mentioned earlier I started cooking with pumpkin early this time. This pumpkin streusel muffins was on my to do list for long time. However only I got the time to bake it this weekend. My daughter who is fan of sweet things loved it; however my son who is not keen on trying anything other than his chocolate cake took a bite. I liked these muffins because they are great with cup of coffee in the morning.

Today morning when I woke up around 6.30 A.M I started the computer and it went into updating mode. I did update yesterday night, still it went on updating, and I thought it will be okay and ready within a few minutes. After an hour and half the story was the same, it say restoring the previous windows with blank screen for another hour. I try to switch off the power remove battery nothing happened same story. Finally thought I am going to lose all my pictures which I didn’t backup.  Finally it worked after 30 minutes, I feel normal again. Even though I am telling my hubby I am not stressed reality I am stressed to the core. Because almost lost 4 recipe pictures.

Earlier I made pumpkin quinoa muffins, so this time Pumpkin streusel muffins, recipe is inspired from “Little flower” baking book, I modified it as usual to suit my taste buds.  I think I was little stingy on adding streusels topping. Yes needs to add 1-2 tablespoon each but I used only ½ tablespoon. Still they are delicious. If you want more go ahead add some more.

Fall baking means the spices, yes I used homemade pumpkin spice homemade pumpkin spice  and added extra spices to it, thus this spiced perfectly moist muffin with crispy topping with crunchy Pepitas . You will not stop with one muffin, I can assure that even my daughter asked me to bake it again, and that means it is delicious. You know it is always hard to please a 7 year old. These muffins were soft even after one day.

Why don’t add these delicious pumpkin streusel muffins in your fall baking list. Here comes the recipe

Ingredients to make this delicious Muffin ? 

All purpose flour : For both muffin and streusel

Baking soda and baking powder : Leaveners 

Pumpkin puree : Always use pumpkin puree not the pumpkin pie filling 

Pumpkin spice :  It is easy to make homemade pumpkin pie spice 

Other spices used in the recipe are : All spice 

Ground cloves, ground cinnamon 

Sweetner : Used granulated sugar for the muffin and a combo of granulated sugar and brown sugar for the streusel.,  if you want you can  use a combo of brown sugar and granulated sugar can be used in the mufifn too. 

Oil : I used vegetable oil, you can use your favorite oil 

Water: You don't need any milk  just use water this will help the muffin gives extra pumpkin flavor. 

Pepitas : This give crunch to the buttery streusel made with butter, flour and sugar.  

Butter : which makes this pumpkin streusel muffins. 

Instructions  to make  Muffins ? 

First make streusel topping 

Then make the batter for the muffin

Pre-heat the oven to 375F and line  Muffin tin with liner, if you want you can grease them also. Using liner give extra protection. 

Dry ingredients

Flour and spices and sugar.                                                                                                                   

Sugar 

Egg , Oil , pumpkin puree                                                                                                                 

Mix wet ingredients dry ingreients 

Combine everything 

Transfer the batter to prepared muffin tins                                              

Top with pepitas 

Add streusel on the topp and bake                                                                        

Slice

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5 from 8 votes

Pumpkin Streusel Muffins

Here is the delicious pumpkin streusel muffins, an ultimate fall favorite hard to resist.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time21 minutes mins

Total Time36 minutes mins

Course: Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: #Muffinrecipes, Pumpkin muffins

Servings: 8

Calories: 403kcal

Ingredients

• ¾ cup +2 tablespoon 105g all purpose flour I used unbleached
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt
• ¼ teaspoon all spice
• ¼ teaspoon pumpkin spice I used homemade
• ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 large egg
• ¾ cups 150g granulated sugar
• ¼ cup canola/vegetable oil
• ½ cup 135g pumpkin puree
• ¼ cup 52.5g water
• 2 tablespoon 27.5g Pepitas for garnish
• ¼ cup + ½ tablespoon crumb topping *
• *For crumb topping
• ½ cup all purpose flour
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ⅛ teaspoon seas salt
• ⅓ cup unsalted butter

Instructions

Make crumb topping

• In a bowl add all the ingredients for crumb topping and mix with fork or pastry blender until it form pea size lumps
• .Do not over mix. Remove and store in refrigerator for 2 weeks or use it immediately.

For making pumpkin streusel muffins

• Preheat oven to 375F line muffin tin with 8 liners.
• Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, all spice, pumpkin spice, cinnamon, cloves into a large bowl and set aside.
• In a bowl of stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, mix egg and sugar on low speed until it gets combined well. Scrape the bowl well to prevent settling of sugar.
• Then gradually add oil in stream, after that add pumpkin puree and mix on medium speed for 20 seconds.
• Then add sifted flour mix and water alternatively. And mix well, if it has dry bits of flour that is fine.
• Remove the bowl from the stand mixer and mix well with rubber spatula,
• Fill ⅔rd of prepared muffin mold with batter.
• Then top with pepitas and then top with ½ tablespoon of crumb topping.
• Bake for 15 minutes and then rotate the pan and bake for another 6 minutes or until the tooth pick comes out clean.
• Enjoy with cup of your favorite coffee or tea.

Nutrition

Calories: 403kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 191mg | Potassium: 109mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 2651IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 2mg

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Swathi

This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread.  All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.