Description
Delicious recipe for super moist pumpkin streusel muffins with a crunchy crumble topping (makes 12 - 14 muffins)
Ingredients
Streusel
- 40 g (1/4 cup)Flour - all-purpose
- 40 g (1/3 cup) Almond meal
- 1 tbsp Brown sugar
- 1 pinch Fleur de sel - sea salt
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon ground
- 40 g (1/4 cup) Butter - unsalted and cold
Pumpkin muffins
- 120 ml (1/2 cup) Vegetable oil - grape seed oil
- 100 g (1/2 cup) Sugar - granulated
- 50 g (1/4 cup) Brown sugar
- 2 eggs - room temperature - about 115 g
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 60 ml (1/4 cup) Buttermilk - or yogurt, sour cream
- 250 g (1 cup) Pumpkin puree
- 220 g (1 3/4 cup) Flour - All-purpose
- 1 tsp. baking soda - about 6 g
- 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice - or all-spices
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
Streusel:
- Place in a medium bowl, flour, almond meal, brown sugar, cinnamon ground, sea salt and butter cut into pieces and cold.
- Mix with your fingertips until you have a sandy mixture.
- Gather the dough to form a ball and crumble into small pieces.
- Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge while preparing the muffins.
Muffin batter :
- Preheat oven to 392°F / 200°C and line a muffin pan with paper liners.
- In a large bowl place the vegetable oil with the granulated sugar and brown sugar and mix with an electric mixer for 1 minute until smooth.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and mix again to incorporate.
- Then add the pumpkin puree and buttermilk and mix with a mixer until the mixture is smooth.
- Finish by adding the dry ingredients, flour, baking soda, salt and spices and mix gently with a flexible spatula until the mixture is smooth and thick.
- Pour the batter into the paper cups, filling them 3/4 full.
- Add the streusel on top of the muffin batter.
- Bake in the oven at 374°F / 190°C for about 20 minutes until they are puffed and golden on top.
- Check with a toothpick and it should come out clean.
- Let the muffins cool a bit before turning them out and letting them cool completely on a cake rack.
Notes
Storage: in a storage box at room temperature for one week or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: muffins, breakfast
- Cuisine: American