Cranberry Pumpkin Muffins
Author: Slightly altered from Sue Ross
Recipe Type: Breakfast
Serves: 18
- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1¼ cups sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- ½ cup vegetable oil or ¼ cup vegetable oil and ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries, chopped
- Combine flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice and salt in large mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Beat the eggs and sugar in mixing bowl. Add the pumpkin and oil (and applesauce if substituting) and mix well.
- Stir into the flour mixture just until moistened.
- Fold in chopped cranberries. (I left the small cranberries whole and the big cranberries I chopped in half.)
- Fill paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full.
- Bake at 400 degrees F for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool for 5 minutes in pans then remove to wire racks.
Original recipe stated this yields 24 muffins but it only produces 18.
Recipe by Baby Loving Mama at http://www.babylovingmama.com/2011/11/cranberry-pumpkin-muffins-recipe.html
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