PUMPKIN MUFFINS
PUMPKIN MUFFINS
PUMPKIN MUFFINS

Ingredients
  • 60ml/2fl oz vegetable oil
  • plus extra for greasing
  • 180g/6½oz self-raising flour
  • 130g/4½oz wholemeal flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • pinch salt
  • 3 fresh rosemary sprigs
  • finely chopped
  • 2 free-range eggs
  • lightly beaten
  • 100ml/4fl oz plain yoghurt
  • 275ml/10fl oz milk
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 240g/8½oz cooked pumpkin
  • cut into ½cm/¼in cubes
  • handful pumpkin seeds
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Oil a 12-hole muffin tin and line with 12 squares of baking paper. Push the squares down into each hole so that the paper sticks up.
  • Sift the flours
  • baking powder
  • and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl. Stir in the salt and rosemary. (Reserve any wholegrain left in the sieve.)
  • Meanwhile in another bowl
  • mix the eggs
  • yoghurt
  • milk
  • honey and vegetable oil until well combined.
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and fold the ingredients together
  • but be careful not to over-work the mixture. Stir in most of the pumpkin
  • reserving a little for the top of the muffins. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases.
  • Sprinkle the reserved wholegrain
  • pumpkin and the pumpkin seeds over the muffins. Bake in the centre of the oven for 20–25 minutes
  • or until the muffins are well risen and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.