Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

Today I stayed home and baked. It seems Thursdays work well for baking. Last Thursday, I made bread, and this Thursday I made muffins. I had the kids bring their schoolwork upstairs to the kitchen table so I could oversee things while I made the muffins. I’ll just say right now, they were AMAZING!! (that is, the muffins!)

I am not a Pampered Chef distributor, so there is no personal gain when I say, Pampered Chef muffin tins are hands down, THE VERY BEST pan out there for baking muffins. I do spray them with a bit of Pam, but the muffins just fall out of them when they’re done.

Another tool that I cannot say enough about is my “scooper”. I have these in all kinds of sizes and use them as much as I possibly can. I love the uniform size and shape that I get when I use a scooper!

Somewhere I’ve read that if you have any extra spaces in the muffin tin, fill it with some water before baking. I guess this is better for your pan. I’m not sure of the technical reason, but it sounded good to me, so when I doubled this recipe, and there was only enough dough/batter for 23 muffins, I went ahead and filled the last space with water before I baked it.

The finished product! I thought these would be too sweet with the chocolate chips, but they are amazing! I will definitely make these again. Since I had all the ingredients out, I decided to try another Pumpkin Muffin recipe, which I’ll show in my next post.

RECIPE

(I got this recipe from More Muffins by Jean Childress p. 25)

Ingredients

1 1/2 Flour
1 Cup Sugar
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Cloves
1/4 tsp Allspice
1/4 tsp Salt
2 Whole Eggs
1 Cup Cooked Pumpkin
1/2 Cup Butter (Melted)
1 Cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Directions

Preheat Oven to 350. Grease or line muffin tin. Combine dry ingredients & set aside. In large bowl, beat eggs. Stir in pumpkin, melted butter & chocolate chips. Blend well. Add dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened. Spoon into muffin tins. Bake 20-25 minutes. These are really sweet and yummy. Can almost be a dessert.

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