Thanks to Brenda at Brenda’s Canadian Kitchen for choosing today’s project, Pumpkin Muffins.
I love to bake with pumpkin 
in the fall and often make pumpkin bread and pumpkin cookies. The muffins sounded good. They’re made with yogurt and half whole wheat flour. I did not add the nuts since some family members don’t like them. They were simple to mix up. The recipe says it makes 12 jumbo muffins – I made 24 regular muffins with this. Mine took forever to bake. The recipe says 25 minutes for the jumbo muffins so I thought mine would be done before that, but they actually took about 10 minutes longer.
I liked them, but thought they were a bit lacking in flavor. The recipe uses pumpkin pie spice which I generally don’t like. I think you get a better flavor 
if you use separate measurements of regular spices. I ended up sprinkling some cinnamon and sugar on top of these to make them look nice and to jazz them up. Also – as I was tasting these I realized there was no salt in the recipe which might have been part of the problem too!
I’ll be interested to hear what everyone else thought.
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I’m pleased yours turned out well. Mine didn’t. They all went into the bin! But my results are up: http://www.perfectingpru.wordpress.com.
I’m looking forward to next week’s recipe in the hope of erasing the memory of this week.
Brette, we really liked these but I think adding raisins made all the difference in the world as they added quite a bit of flavour (and a bit of sweetness). I’m not so sure I would have liked them as much without the raisins, I think they would have been a bit bland. My results are up!
Oh, these look nice. I love baking with pumpkin this time of year as well!
Sounds like a good addition. I thought these definitely needed something.
Oh no! I’m sorry it was a disaster.
I really like pumpkin in pie and custard (and its cousin butternut squash as a vegetable) but I’ve not yet found the right spice combination for the pumpkin bread/muffin/cookie equation. thanks for trying this one out.
ps — one that came close — we added a bit of cooked apple or apple sauce. might that work with your muffins?
Interesting idea! I have a pumpkin bread recipe that I think is simply perfect. I’ll bet i could just pour it into muffin tins.
I just posted my results. I had to tweak this recipe!
http://sassysuppers.blogspot.com/2010/10/martha-mondays-pumpkin-muffins.html
It needed some help, I agree!