Pumpkin Oat Streusel Muffins

It’s only November 8th and I am already seeing Christmas EVERYWHERE! No. Not okay. Christmas doesn’t come until AFTER Thanksgiving.  In my mind, it’s still fall, and that means more baking with pumpkins, apples, cinnamon and nutmeg.  I had some leftover pumpkin in the fridge, so I started looking up recipes.  I don’t know if I have said this before, but I get most of my recipes from foodgawker.com.  That’s where the creative cooks live.  It is a website that is very focused on the visuals of food, which is always important.  My favorite part about it, however, is that almost all the recipes are from food blogs.  I am able to find all kinds of creative recipes that I would not normally come across if I just did a Google Search.

I narrowed my search down to two muffin recipes and decided to combine different aspects of them.  The result was this AMAZING muffin that I will absolutely be making again.  Did I mention that the apartment smelled like pure heaven?

Here is the recipe for Pumpkin Oat Streusel Muffins

Ingredients

Muffins

½ cup butter, softened
¾ cup pumpkin puree
½ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
¾ cup quick oats
1½ cups flour

Streusel Topping

1/3 cup oats
1 tablespoon flour
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Dash of nutmeg
2 tablespoons cold butter, cut into chunks

Directions

1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees F
2. Cream butter and brown sugar in a bowl. Add pumpkin and eggs and mix well.
3. In a separate bowl, add salt, baking soda, baking powder, spice, and oats. Add flour and mix until combined.
4. Slowly fold dry mixture into wet mixture.  Stir until just combined
5. For the streusel topping: in a small bowl mix together the oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mix in the butter with your hands until the mixture is crumbly.
6. Divide batter evenly between 12 muffin cups. Sprinkle streusel topping evenly over each muffin.
7. Bake for 22-25 minutes, until lightly browned on top or toothpick inserted comes out clean

Muffin recipe adapted from jensfavoritecookies.com

Streusel topping recipe adapted from twopeasandtheirpod.com

This is the last month to enjoy fall so I suggest you do so by making some of these muffins to share with your friends. They are good, trust me! I am on my third one.  Enjoy!