Frighteningly Easy! {Recipe: Mummy Pumpkin Muffins}

 

This is a fun, quick little recipe that is easy to make with kids for Halloween. The muffin recipe originally came from my daughter's kindergarten class. I volunteered to help the kids make these and it's a great, easy recipe for them to whisk up with a bit of help. 

Making these muffins into Mummy Pumpkin Muffins is also a great beginner recipe. The icing is easy to whip up and the decorating is even easier!

Vegan Pumpkin Muffins

These are a family favorite! Recently we have been making them with less sugar and like them even better. The original with the full amount of sugar is here:  http://motheralwaystoldme.blogspot.com/2019/10/so-easy-even-kindergartener-can-make.html

2 tablespoons flax seed meal
6 tablespoons water
1 cups sugar
1 cup pumpkin
1/2 cup applesauce
1 1/3 cup all purpose flour
1/3 whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 baking powder
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cloves

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line muffin tin with cupcake liners; set aside.
2. In a medium size mixing bowl, whisk together flax seed meal and water. Mix in sugar, pumpkin, and applesauce: set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda cinnamon, salt baking powder, nutmeg, and cloves.  Add pumpkin mixture and stir until well combined, but be careful not to over mix. Pour batter into prepared muffin tin.
4. Bake in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one muffin and comes out clean. 

Makes 12 muffins.

Small Batch Cream Cheese Icing

Once this icing is added, the muffins are no longer vegan. There are vegan cream cheese and butter substitutes that should work as well. 

2 ounces cream cheese, softened

2 tablespoons butter, softened

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup powdered sugar

Pinch of salt

Place cream cheese, butter, vanilla into a medium-size mixing bowl and beat until fluffy. Add powdered sugar and salt, beat until desired consistency is reached. If icing is too stiff, add a little milk 1/2 teaspoon at a time. If icing is not stiff enough, add a bit more powdered sugar 1 tablespoon at a time. 

Makes enough to ice 8-9 muffins. 

To make Mummy Pumpkin Muffins:

You need a piping bag, coupler, flat petal tip, and candy eyeball sprinkles. Fill piping bag with Cream Cheese Icing from above. Make an couple of overlapping criss-cross line at the top of the muffin, place candy eye balls, then continue to add criss-cross icing lines across the top to look like mummy bandages. 

Note: the muffin recipe makes 12 and the icing only covers only about 8-9. There always seems be someone who requests these without icing. 

Happy Halloween!