Pumpkin spice is an unmissable ingredient in all sort of autumn related food items. I love everything pumpkin spice! If you’re looking for a slightly less sugary and more healthy pumpkin baking recipe, my Pumpkin Spice Muffins With Cream Cheese Topping recipe will just do. These pumpkin spice muffins contain healthy ingredients such as pumpkin, apple and banana. The only not so healthy thing about the recipe is the cream cheese topping, but you can leave it out. I hope you enjoy this delicious and healthy pumpkin spice muffin recipe!
Ingredients
Pumpkin Spice Muffins
–300 g peeled pumpkin
–150 g wheat flour
–1 packet of baking powder
–25 g (softened) butter
–1 ripe banana
–1 apple
–3 tbsp of honey
–2 eggs
–1 tsp cinnamon
–1 tsp pumpkin spice
–shaved almonds
Cream Cheese Topping
–100 g cream cheese
–100 g (softened) butter
–75 g icing sugar
–1 packet of vanilla-flavored sugar
(–a bunch of walnuts as decoration)
Instructions
Step 1: Firslty, start by peeling the pumpkin and cutting small cubes out of it. Then boil your cubes of pumpkin until they are soft. Drain the pumpkin, add the banana to the cubes and crush and combine them into one mixture. Put the pumpkin-banana mixture in a mixing bowl and stir in the eggs.
Step 2: Secondly, add flour, honey, butter, baking powder, cinnamon and the pumpkin spice and stir to a nice, smooth batter. Further, peel the apple, cut it into small cubes and add to the batter. After that, grease your baking pan or line a 12-hole muffin tray with cases. Meanwhile, don’t forget to preheat your oven at 180ºC. Finally, add the batter to the muffin cases and sprinkle some shaved almonds over the muffins. Bake the muffins in the oven for 25 minutes or until baked through.
Step 3: Remove the muffins from the oven and let them cool off completely. This will prevent the muffins from getting soggy and we don’t want the cream cheese topping to melt off. For the topping, combine the cream cheese, softened butter, icing sugar and the packet of vanilla-flavored sugar and mix it. Do make sure you mix in the icing sugar in little batches. Spread the cream cheese topping on the muffins and finish off with adding half a walnut on top of each muffin.
Healthy And Delicious Muffins!
Now you’ve got yourself some delicious and healthy pumpkin spice muffins with a cream cheese topping! Most important is that by using a recipe with pumpkin and lots of fruits you get all the vitamins you will need. I am enthusiastic about pumpkins because they contain a lot of vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. Muffins made with vegetables do not sound tasty at first, but I promise you these pumpkin spice muffins are very tasty! It’s definitely worth trying this Pumpkin Spice Muffins With Cream Cheese Topping Recipe!
Do you like pumpkin spice?
xo. Gwen
