Recipe, pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting

Hi this is chef Rok and today we are going to be making a delicious and special Halloween or autumn treat. So let’s make pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting.

Nutrition facts and health meter for pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting

Nutrition facts for these muffins are Halloween scared, well not all of them, just the sugar part. But what is Halloween without sugar right. With only one muffin you get more 60% of your recommended daily sugar intake.

Nutrition facts and health meter for male

Nutrition facts and health meter for male

Video recipe for pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting

Servings: yield 12 muffins

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1-1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp salt

4 Tbsp butter, cut into pieces

1 cup (heaping) pumpkin puree

1/2 cup of cream half & half or you can also use evaporated milk

1 whole egg

1-1/2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup raisins

Topping:

1 Tbsp sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

For cream cheese frosting:

1/4 cup softened butter

4 oz, cream cheese

8 oz powdered sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

So let’s make these simple muffins:

First sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, vanilla sugar (if you don’t have vanilla sugar, add vanilla extract to wet ingredients) and salt. Mix the ingredient a bit and then add in Cut butter. Press and mix it with a fork until it is incorporated and gets a bit crumbly.

In a separate bowl, mix together egg, pumpkin – don’t forget to clean the cup so you don’t throw away any of this lovely golden pure, than add cream, and also add vanilla extract if you didn’t use vanilla sugar previously. Now mix all ingredients nicely with a whisk until you get a gentle paste like mixture.

Now pour this pumpkin mixture into the dry mixture. Add raisins and then mix to combine the ingredients.

Generously grease 12 muffin tins or put in the muffin cups.

Pour the mixture nicely into the pan and fill the cups 2/3 full.

Topping:

Then take the ingredients for the topping and mix them a bit. Sprinkle with this cinnamon-sugar-nutmeg mixture over the top of each unbaked muffin.

Before you put the muffins in the oven, preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Put the muffin pan in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. After they are done allow them to cool in pan for a few minutes before removing form the pan.  

Now the cream cheese frosting:

To make the frosting, put all ingredients in a mixing bowl (sugar, butter, vanilla sugar or vanilla extract and cream cheese). At first gently mix all ingredients so the powdered sugar doesn’t puff all over. Than take an electric mixture and mix on high until ingredients get soft and whipped.

Take a large star tip and pastry bag. Fill the bag with cream cheese frosting. Now let your imagination do the work and make shapes of your desire on these lovely muffins.

One tip before I finish – the frosting will be a bit soft after you finish mixing. If you want the frosting to get firmer just put it in the fridge for an hour and arrange the frosting topping at later time.

Well we are done. Enjoy