This easy breakfast recipe for Gingerbread Pumpkin Muffins is full of holiday spice flavors and made healthier by using ripe bananas, pumpkin and old-fashioned oats.
I haven’t done as much baking with pumpkin this year as I usually do. I made smitten kitchen’s pumpkin bread a few times {amazing recipe} and one crustless pumpkin pie, but otherwise I haven’t been baking with pumpkin. However, last week I wanted to create a gingerbread-flavored breakfast recipe and adapted it from my recipe for Chai Pumpkin Muffins. The muffins turned out to be really tasty!
Even though this muffin recipe tastes more like gingerbread than traditional pumpkin pie spice, adding pumpkin puree makes the muffins soft and delicious.
For gingerbread spices, I used cinnamon, all spice, nutmeg, ground ginger, and a dash of cloves. I topped each muffin with a mix of cinnamon-sugar before baking. I love the extra sweetness this adds.
My toddler {who turns 2 tomorrow!} loved these muffins and I did too.
Gingerbread Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 ripe bananas {mashed}
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp molasses
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp all spice
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- Dash of cloves
- 1/4 tsp salt
Cinnamon Sugar
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Mix wet ingredients in a food processor or mixer - mashed bananas, eggs, pumpkin puree, oil, maple syrup, molasses, and vanilla extract.
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Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl - flour, sugar, gingerbread spices, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
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Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until combined.
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Add batter to a muffin tin, with each muffin tin 3/4 full.
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Add ~1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon Sugar on top of each muffin.
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Bake for 23-25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
I’m Celia. I live in the Chicago area. I'm a mama of two, runner, business owner and former Iowan. My blog includes recipes, fitness and travel posts, and stories about Chicago.
Made these exactly as directed and they turned out light and fluffy and not too sweet. Keeper recipe. Thanks!
Thank you! Glad you liked the recipe
I loved the flavor of these muffins! Just the right amount of spice and sweetness.
I used applesauce instead of oil and was pleased that they are low calorie, too!
Happy to hear it!
I added fresh ginger but still not enough ginger taste for me. They were light and fluffy. I added nuts and raisins too
Glad you found a good recipe modification!