If you make these muffins around the holidays, stir a handful of dried cranberries or 1/4 cup chopped walnuts into the batter. You can also make pumpkin muffin tops with this recipe — just use a muffin-top pan and bake for about 10 minutes.

Ingredients

Topping

  • ¼ cup store-bought gluten-free flour blend
  • ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 4 tablespoons all-vegetable shortening
  • Confectioners’ sugar, for sprinkling

Muffins

  • 1 ¾ cups store-bought gluten-free flour blend
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs, at room temperature
  • 1 cup canned pure pumpkin puree
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

    12 muffins.

    Preparation

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
    2. Prepare the crumble topping. Whisk together the flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl. Add the shortening and, using your fingers or a fork, blend together until coarse crumbs form.
    3. To make the muffins: Whisk together the flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice and salt in a large bowl.
    4. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, pumpkin puree, granulated sugar, oil and vanilla until smooth. Add to the flour mixture; stir until just combined.
    5. Fill each muffin cup almost full; top each with crumble topping. Bake until the muffins are springy to the touch and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool in the pan, set on a wire rack. Using a sieve, sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar.

    45 minutes

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