Make a soft and spicy pumpkin muffins recipe with orange when your friends come round this Fall.  It won’t take long I promise! 

We are all so busy these days, it’s always difficult to make time for friends, or those great ‘girlie’ chats that you sometimes need to chew the fat and have a good old moan, or even talk about any nonsense that comes to mind.

Once a month I try to catch up and have a few friends round for coffee in the morning, or a quick brunch, but I do find coffee breaks easier – I can muster up a few muffins or cookies without a lot of effort, and more importantly, not tons of washing up!! 

My Orange Pumpkin Muffins Recipe

Now I have teased you with a picture of these delights you can make your own using the recipe below! I can guarantee you will enjoy these pumpkin muffins as much as my friends and I did! Pumpkin and orange work wonderfully together as I already proved in my gluten free pumpkin bread with orange zest. 

Yield: 15 medium

Pumpkin Muffins Recipe with Orange and Poppy Seeds

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Delicious pumpkin muffins recipe with orange and poppy seeds

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 ½ tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 can pure pumpkin (or use fresh pureed)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3cups sugar (granulated)
• 4 large eggs
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• ½ cup orange juice (fresh or from a carton)
• Poppy Seeds (optional)

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F/180°C/Gas mark 4

Grease or line 2 muffin tins (do try the tulip cases, they give a real professional touch. You can see them below from Amazon).

Mix the flour, pumpkin pie spice, salt and baking soda together. In a separate bowl, combine the sugar, pumpkin, eggs, oil and juice together.

Beat until completely blended, then add the flour mixture and stir until mixed. Add some poppy seeds at this stage if you like. Fill the muffin cases to about ¾ full.

Bake for 25 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted into the centre of a muffin comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes in the tin and then place on a wire baking tray to cool completely.

Notes

You can ice these muffins for children if you want to – for real indulgence, would suggest a coffee and walnut butter icing for adults

Why not have your own coffee morning or afternoon with friends and catch up on old times with some of my delightful pumpkin muffins!

Will you try this Pumpkin Muffins Recipe?