Hi everyone, happy Sunday!
I have a few updates for you all on the blog front. I’ve updated my recipe pages to include all of my latest kitchen creations. I also updated my workout page, which now includes a new section for my hiking spot posts. Lastly, I added a ‘travel & fun’ page so that all of my travel posts, restaurant and winery experiences, as well as random adventures are in one place. Fun stuff! And now onto food – banana pumpkin muffins to be precise…
After a morning yoga session, running errands, and going hiking with my hubby and puppy yesterday, I came home and decided that a bit of baking was in order.
Since I had an open can of pumpkin and some ripe bananas ready to be eaten in my fruit basket, and I’ve been loving muffins lately, I whipped up some tasty banana pumpkin muffins.
As usual, Harley “helped” me by being underneath my feet the entire time in hopes of catching a good bite of something. 😉
Pumpkin & banana really compliment each other well. I sprinkled a cinnamon & brown sugar topping onto the muffin batter to give it that extra flavor oomph. At only 135 calories per muffin, these babies are perfect as a snack or part of breakfast or lunch.
Banana Pumpkin Muffins with a Cinnamon Brown Sugar Topping
Ingredients
- 1 cup pure pumpkin
- 1 banana mashed
- 1 cup whole wheat all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup white all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/4 cup softened butter
- 1/2 cup vanilla almond milk
- 2 TBSP light brown sugar
- 1 TSP vanilla extract
- 2 TSP cinnamon
- 1 TSP salt
- 1/2 TBSP baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 12 muffin pan tin with muffin cups.
- In a medium bowl, combine flours, 1 TSP cinnamon, baking powder and salt.
- In another bowl, beat the banana, pumpkin, vanilla extract, honey, butter and almond milk with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Mix the wet and dry ingredients together and stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
- Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin cups.
- In a small bowl, combine remaining 1 TSP cinnamon with 2 TBSP light brown sugar. Spoon the cinnamon sugar mixture evenly onto each muffin cup.
- Bake until a toothpick comes out of muffin center clean, around 20 minutes.
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Hope that you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Those look amazing! Happy Sunday!
Thanks, Tara! Hope that you had a great weekend.
What a yummy mix of flavors!
Thank you, Kira!
These look tasty! I love muffins too and will definitely try this recipe.
I know, muffins may be my favorite thing to bake!
I love the new layout!! Doesn’t it feel great to have that done? I always feel so accomplished when I do stuff like that for the blog. These muffins look amazing!!
Agreed, I always feel accomplished when I update/change something on the blog and am happy with it.
Can’t wait to try these!
You’d definitely like them!!
Nicole, these look fantastic. My husbands co workers LOVE banana bread, so it’s only obvious they’d love these treats too. Will have to keep these in mind for next time I have bananas to use up 🙂
I love to make banana muffins or bread when I’ve got overripe bananas to use ASAP! Hope you try em out sometime 🙂