Orange Pumpkin Muffins
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 21
- Yields:
-
12 muffins
ingredients
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Streusel Topping
- 2⁄3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 cup icing sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 cup pumpkin seeds, raw
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Muffins
- 1⁄2 cup pumpkin seeds, raw
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg, ground
- 1⁄4 teaspoon allspice, ground
- 1 orange
- 1 egg
- 1 cup pumpkin puree, canned
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
directions
- For the streusel: stir flour with icing sugar and baking powder. Add melted butter and vanilla & mix lightly with a fork until moist crumbs form. Set aside with 1/4 cup of pumpkin seeds.
- For the muffins: preheat oven to 375°F Spread 1/4 cup of pumpkin seeds on a cookie sheet & toast 5 to 7 minutes - until a few begin to brown & they smell good - watch them closely. Cool them off the cookie sheet.
- Grease a 12 muffin tin, including the top (make big muffin topps release easily too).
- Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl.
- In a second bowl, grate the zest of the orange. Squeeze 1/4 cup orange juice in with the zest. add the egg & beat lightly. Stir in pumpkin puree, buttermilk, juice, vanilla and butter.
- Fold wet pumpkin mixture into flour until mostly moistened. Then stir in toasted pumpkin seeds until well mixed; divide batter among cups, heaping slightly in centre (batter completely fills cups). Sprinkle with raw pumpkin seeds; then top liberally with streusel crumbs. Press seeds and crumbs gently into muffin tops.
- Bake in center of preheated oven for 25 to 28 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into muffin centre comes out clean and tops are lightly golden.
- Rest on cooling rack for 5 minutes; then lift each muffin out of pan onto rack. Cool completely; to serve, lightly sieve a spoonful of confectioner's sugar over muffin tops, if desired.
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<p>First about Buster: Buster moved onto whatever comes next on February 26, 2008. He was just shy of five years old. I miss him terribly. <br />He came into our lives when he ran out in front of my car late one night as I was driving home. A just under 4 pound ball of kitten fluff, complete with an ostrich boa tail that stayed straight up as he assessed his new domain. He became a 19 pound longhaired beast who guarded our house (he followed any new guests or servicepeople the entire time they are on the property) & even killed copperheads (among other things with his hunting buddy, Fergus the short-tailed)! Friends never saw his formidible side as he smiled at them & uttered the most incongruent kitten-like mews as he threaded legs! He liked to ride in the car & came to the beach. <br />There are Buster-approved recipes in my offerings - however, HE decided which he wanted to consider - Buster demonstrated he liked pumpkin anything - ALOT -LOL!!! <br /> <br />Copperhead count 2006 - Buster 2 <br /> (10 inchers w/yellow tails) <br /> 2007 - Buster & Roxie 1 <br /> (a 24 incher!) <br />Buster woken from beauty sleep - <br />http://www.recipezaar.com/members/home/62264/DSCN0335.JPG <br />Big whiskers - <br />http://www.recipezaar.com/members/home/62264/DSCN0333.JPG <br /> <br />For those of you who gave kind condolences - thank you so very much. <br />http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewtopic.zsp?t=250301 <br /> <br /> <br />I love to cook & incorporate techniques from Southern/Mid Atlantic roots (grits, eastern NC BBQ shoulders, Brunswick stew, steamed crabs & shrimp & shellfish, hushpuppies, cornbread, greens, shad roe, scrapple) with Pacific Rim foods & techniques aquired while living in Pacific Northwest, fish & game recipes learned while living in Rocky Mountain region & foods/techniques learned travelling to the Big Island & up into BC & Alberta & into the Caribbean. The Middle Eastern/African likes I have are remnants of my parents who lived for many years in North Africa & Mediterranean before I was thought of. Makes for wide open cooking! <br /> <br />Since moving back east we try to go annually in the deep winter to Montreal (Old Montreal auberges & La Reine) & Quebec City (Winter Carnival & Chateau Frontenac)- for unctuous foie gras & real cheeses, French & Canadian meals prepared & served exquisitely, fantastic music & wonderful people - with the cold helping burn off some of the calories! <br /> <br />I love putting in our aluminum jonboat & heading across the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) to the barrier islands for foraging & exploring! Bodysurfing is a lifelong sport for me - one that a person's body never seems to forget how to do, once the knack is learned (thank goodness!) <br /> <br />I especially miss cool summers & foggy/drizzly days & fall mushroom foraging/anytime of year hot springing in WA, OR, MT, ID, BC & Alberta.</p>