Pumpkin Muffins for All Mankind
21 Oct
I have learned with each recipe selection in Dorie Greenspan’s Baking From My Home to Yours, that I have a few little choices to make. Whether to forge a path and make a few variations of my choosing or to stick to the written recipe. Bottom line, pretty much stayed with her recipe for the pumpkin muffins. I was able to compare this muffin to the one I make and decide my preferences. [SinglePic not found]
These were pretty good fall muffins. I varied each row in the pan. Mixing up the recipe as written, short of the nuts and dried fruit. This is the point where I scooped enough batter for three muffins into a cereal bowl. The first three muffins were plain, for my only remaining child at home. The second row of batter, I added a handful of chocolate chips, for me. I’m not on a diet today! The third row of batter, toasted pecans and dried cranberries were added. The last and final row dried apple and toasted pecans were added. The remaining batter went to the mini muffin pan. My family loves to pop those little guys into their mouths for snacks.[SinglePic not found]
The muffins are good I thought, however, as I’ve read amongst other TWD bakers who share an affinity for pumpkin, we all seem to like a little “More” pumpkin flavor. Therefore, one might be able to conclude that Dorie provided us the Pumpkin Muffin recipe for all mankind. Do you think? Those who may not be pumpkin eaters and those who are. I like pumpkin and I like goodies in my muffins and so any additions are interesting to me. Whether its chocolate, not the non-chocolate variety (or white), which was delicious by the way, or dried fruits and nuts they all add to the flavor and interest to the muffin.[SinglePic not found]
I didn’t have on hand, nor did I find sunflower seeds on recent trips to the store so they were never topped with a crown of seeds. Maybe I’ll try that sometime when baking some Pumpkin Muffins with Dorie. Thank you, Kelly of Sounding My Barbaric Gulp for selecting this recipe from Dorie Greenspans, Baking From My Home to Yours. You’ll find the recipe for the pumpkin muffins here or here. Either way, Enjoy! As it is a nice time of year to bake pumpkin muffins. A tip from this baking project I learned and will share with you is freezing the remaining pumpkin from your opened can. I haven’t tried freezing mine yet, however I read about it and then googled and found many others who have as well. You’ll find some really interesting suggestions for your remaining pumpkin at ChowHound.
Well, Amy Ruth, did these muffins match up to your favorite? Sounds like maybe not. I’d be interested in your recipe – always looking for pumpkin perfection. I think you’re right – these are muffins for the masses. Nothing to offend anyone, so popular with all.
You could be right. I am not a pumpkin fan but I wasn’t overwhelmed with the pumpkin flavor with these muffins so it appealed to the pumpkin hater in me
Love the pictures of the muffins in the basket and the checkerboard plate. 
Clara @ iheartfood4thought
I love that you made all the different varieties. They all sound delicious. Yum!
Such cute photos! These look very yummy – those baskets are too cute!
I like all the variations – dried apple sounds wonderful. So, did they match up to your favorite, or was there not enough pumpkin?
I agree! I’m not a pumpkin fan, but I loved these muffins. Love all the varieties you made. I chose milk choc chips over nuts and drizzle instead of sunflower seeds. Overall they were wonderful and I will definitely make them again
Your photos are beautiful and I love the variations you tried- great job!
I think the toasted pecan would be deliicous, with cranberries or apples, or even alone. I actually added more pumpkin. I halved the recipe and added 1/2 cup pumpkin, when it should have been half of 3/4 cup. Your pictures are so pretty and what a good idea to separate it into three separate trials.
Amy Ruth, I LOVE how you divided these into three trial groups — what a great way to solve the “what should I put in these?” problem! I totally agree that this is a pumpkin muffin for all mankind! If you don’t love pumpkin/pumpkin spices, this recipe is probably the one for you. If you DO love pumpkin, this one might seem a little tame, but could always be tinkered with to ramp up the spice factor. All in all, I thought this was a good recipe, but I’ll still try others. We thought the minis were pretty “poppable” too! Your muffins look great!
I love all your variations! Great job!
Ah, Dorie the humanitarian. I like the thought of pumpkin muffins for all of mankind! Your variations sound awesome.
Wow! That’s a whole bunch of muffin variations. The dried apple and walnut sounds pretty interesting, actually. I particularly enjoyed the chocolate in mine, too. Yum! Thanks for the compliments and comments on my blog! I appreciate it.
I love it when TWDers test out different variations! I’m always curious about the best combinations of ingredients, but sometimes I just have to force myself to just stick to the recipe or else I’ll go crazy debating just how I might change certain things. Your pictures are really nice!
Great additions and your pictures are wonderful. I love changing the ingredients!
Wow, you get bonus points for trying all of those varieties. And yes, you might be right. These muffins might have universal appeal… not overwhelmingly pumpkiny so as to turn off the pumpkin haters, but pumpkiny enough for the pumkin lovers.
Nice job!
Wow, you tried lots of variations, and they all sound delicious!
so nicely done! I love your pics, Amy! Your muffins look stunning!
They look wonderful.