Afternoon tea time special: Pumpkin muffins
With Halloween coming soon, I decided to soak in the festive mood by cooking with pumpkin, starting with these adorable pumpkin muffins. Because I don’t really have a sweet tooth, I always like the idea of having a savoury ingredient like pumpkin in something sweet like a muffin. If you want to prepare this in advance before Halloween, you can freeze the muffins in the freezer and toast them for about 5 minutes in the oven to warm them up before serving. This is always a huge time saver for me when I want a quick and fuss free breakfast.
I’m pretty inexperienced at baking. For those who are experienced, could you tell me honestly if my muffins look ok? Are nicely baked muffins supposed to look like that? Also, they rise nicely when they are in the smaller cupcake cases as shown in the photos, but if I use the taller and bigger muffin cases, the batter do not cook well, and they will sink in the middle and then collapse. Does anyone know the reason for this? Your expertise is much appreciated.
On to the recipe now, if you still dare to follow a recipe shared by a noob hehe 
Pumpkin muffins (with pumpkin smoothie in the background)
Ingredients
(Makes about 16 small muffins)Adapted from 500 Cupcakes & Muffins by Fergal Connolly
- 200g plain flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 250g caster sugar
- 110ml vegetable oil
- 2 lightly beaten eggs
- 110ml milk
- 150g pumpkin flesh, blended to a pureeDirections
1. Flour mixture: In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar together, and mix well.
2. Pumpkin mixture: In a large bowl, beat the oil, eggs and milk. Stir in the pumpkin puree.
3. Combine the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture. Stir until just blended (and lumpy). Be careful not to over mix as it will result in a tough texture.
4. Place baking cases in muffin tins. Spoon the mixture into the cases (each slightly more than 2/3 filled).
4. Bake for about 20 minutes in preheated oven of 175C (350F). Remove the muffins and cool on a rack for several minutes before serving.
Just for Fun:
I baked a mini one for my hamster Mario.
And he seemed pretty happy about it 
Read about it here.
More pumpkin recipes:
- Pumpkin Chawanmushi
- Steamed Tofu with Pumpkin, Prawns & Ebikko
- Pumpkin Rice
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Beautiful muffins!!! Want to grab them all and put in my fridge. LoL. I never can make beautiful cakes…
Girl, I really feel your meals are more beautiful than mine
yeah!halloween is coming …i love pumpkin dessert.Your muffin looks perfect to me.I don’t see anything wrong with it.Hmmm maybe you overbaked it when you use the bigger muffin cases.I don’t know but seems funny eh!I will try this.
I was thinking maybe it’s underbaked in the bigger cases, and perhaps the proportion of ingredients cannot hold the weight if the batter is placed in the bigger cases heh. Try it try it! And let me know how it goes hehe
Haha… your hamster looks great in photo. if you muffins taste good, whether it’s ups or downs in seconds, does it matter? really?
It matters. Those that are downs in the bigger cases, have to be thrown away coz the batter isn’t cooked, haha
Those u see in the photos are the correctly baked ones coz they are in smaller cases 
Your muffins look great! They must be delicious because Mario seems to love his.
Nice muffins!! I have never used pumpkin in my cooking, this is a great way to eat pumpkin!
Haha I know it, I know it that hamsters has sweet tooth too
Any sweet leftovers to share? Yum yum!!
Cheers!
Gera
They look delicious! No need to worry about how they look. They look perfect!
How sweet of you to make one for your hampster. I love the last pic.
Thanks Rosabela! glad to hear that they look all right.
They look YUMMY! All hamsters have a sweet tooth, especially mine. The muffins look perfect! Do you mind if I post the recipe on my blog? I will remember to give you credit when I do post it.
-Sonia, Allie, Lola
Sure! Feel free to post the recipe on your blog. A link back to the original recipe will be appreciated
Wow.. we love it we love it… nw rey’s fav veg is PUMPKIN, he just love anything that is with pumpkin
Your hamster is so cute……
Your muffin looks gorgeous…and I love the last shot of Mario feasting. So cute!
Love the last picture!!!!! He is so cute.
I’m lovin those pooh cups..
Smell of cinnamon ,pumpkin, hamster all smells mighty delicious to me! haha! If it were up to me I would be too lazy to do all the work of pureeing fresh pumpkin, I’ll just go look up good ole Libby’s.
hamster smells delicious? He has a “pee” smell sometimes lol
Yeah u can use canned pumpkin puree too. I may try that next time, though I find it quite fuss free to puree it on my own – with a blender, hee
Aww.. that’s so cute!
I would love to have tasted one! I have only tasted pumpkin muffins once-with curry leaves and pepita seeds! Different isnt it?
Yours looks so cute-and i love the photos. I wondered with the larger case that more baking powder or perhaps just more batter is needed? Just a thought…
wow I totally love the sound of the pumpkin muffins you have – with curry and pepita, love the unique asian flavours … You should post the recipe one day
Yes it seems like with a larger case, the batter is unable to hold itself. So I think what you said made sense, that perhaps more baking powder is needed? I should just stick to the smaller cases
So cute with the hamster! One of the reasons the cake sink in the middle is overbaked. So, don’t know leh since you used a bigger muffin cup.
but weird hor, because they look perfect when baked in the smaller cases, and only sink when they are in the bigger cups ?_?
Oh I’m dying with cuteness! How sweet of you to bake a mini one especially for Mario.
I’m not experienced with baking muffins, but am very very experienced with eating them……so I’ll tell you those muffins look like perfection! Great job with baking, perhaps you should bake more often.
And beautiful photo set too.
haha, I know you are the person with the right experience to consult
Thanks for your kind words girl
Oh! Your pumpkin muffins look so yummie, love the way you too the pictures, so cute, specially the one with the hamster
To me, your pumpkin muffins are perfectly baked though I haven’t hands on to bake muffin.
Mario is cute!!!
oh oh ohhhhh so cuteeeeeeeeee! i want your pumpkin muffins, i recently failed some T_T, i left it baking when i took pictures of another dish…and they turned rock hard. sad sad…
haha, this has happened to me before too
The things we go thru to keep a food blog 
They looks good to me! I have to send a link to this to my girlfriend, she loves hamsters.
hi 5 to your girlfriend! hehe
Your little hammy is just so adorable…!:) I also have two at home, only the bigger version – I have two bunnies :). Your food styling is cute as usual!
Oh I love bunnies too, all animals fluffy actually. Thanks!
O your muffins look good!!!
I recently tasted store-bought pumpkin muffins & they were good!
They taste a little spicy (as in it’s got spices such as nutmeg, cloves, & probably ginger), which I like. Maybe you can try that next time, since you don’t have sweet tooth the spiciness might balance out the sweetness.
Yes I think I will like the spices too. That’s a great idea and something I’m writing in my future to-try list. Thanks!
I think your muffins look great! Don’t worry too much about it! Yeah and pumpkin is known to go very well with the mix of some fall spices.
You celebrate Halloween in SGP? ;p
hmm depends on whether eating pumpkin is counted as celebrating Halloween hehe
Pretty muffin.. pretty picture.