Smells Like Fall Y'all! Our Favorite Muffins

Our favorite breakfast muffins: chocolate chip pumpkin spice muffins (yes,  I know, that's a long name for a recipe. That's why I call them favorite muffins!)

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl and make a well in the center. Mix wet ingredients with a whisk in a separate bowl. Pour wet ingredients in well of dry ingredients. 

Stir with rubber spatula just until incorporated. Don't stir too long! Then spoon into muffin tins.

Thought you might want to see the chocolate chips up close!

These are our favorite breakfast muffins. I'm in the mood for autumn foods, probably because it has gotten down into the 40's at night lately. Autumn is my absolute favorite season! I don't know if it's because of the food: loaded potato soup, beef stew, ham and white bean soup with cornbread, pumpkin cake with apple cider icing, hot chocolate,  these muffins! Football season! Maybe it's the smell of wood burning on a bonfire, hayrides, tailgate cook-outs, the vivid crimson, gold, and orange of changing leaves. Football! Pumpkins, squash, corn mazes. Did I mention football? So enough rambling. Here's my recipe. It's a revision (because I do that a lot) of a muffin recipe in one of those little paperback fundraiser cookbooks. Smells like fall y'all!


Favorite Muffins

Preheat oven 350 degrees

- 3 1/2 c. flour (I use half all-purpose, half whole wheat)
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 2 1/2 c. sugar
-  3/4 c. oil
- 2/3 c. water
- 1 can pumpkin ( 15 oz. NOT pie filling, use solid pumpkin)
- 4 eggs
- 1 c. chocolate chips or nuts

Line muffin tins with paper liners or spray with cooking spray. Mix dry ingredients (including chic. chips and nuts) in large bowl with a whisk. Make well in center. Mix wet ingredients in medium bowl. Pour in well of dry ingredients. Mix with rubber spatula just until combined. Do not over mix.  Fill muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake about 20 mins. The batter may be stored in fridge and used as needed. It makes about 3 dozen muffins.