Pumpkin Spiced Muffins

I love the fall, it is my favorite season and always has been. Growing up in the south we always looked forward to the relief from the brutally hot humid weather turning crisp and cool, football and all the fall festivities. And even now living in the Pacific Northwest, I can't stop my love affair... It is so beautiful to watch the leaves turn colors, my children get so excited about their Halloween costumes and baking anything with pumpkin! So today I am posting my first round of pumpkin...

These muffins were gone before the end of the day. My kids literally gobbled them down, which my husband wasn't too happy about since he hadn't had his share. Poor guy, there will be more!

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups of gluten free flour or regular flour (my recipe for the flour I use is here in this post http://5loavesofbread.blogspot.com/2011/09/almond-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies.html)
2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 can of pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup almond milk, soy milk, or regular milk
1/3 cup of safflower oil, or whatever vegetable oil you have in your pantry
1/4 cup of molasses
2 eggs
A few tablespoons of sugar in the raw for sprinkling over the top of the muffins

These are such easy muffins to make... Here's how

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Combine the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, ginger and salt in a medium or large mixing bowl. Stir these ingredients together. Make a well at the center of mixture.

In another bowl, combine brown sugar, canned pumpkin, milk, oil, molasses, vanilla extract and eggs stirring well with a whisk.

Add the wet mixture into the dry mixture slowly whisking until just combined and moist.

Spoon batter into 18 muffin cup lined with paper liners. Sprinkle with the sugar in the raw. Bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. They are super moist and are great warm with a little earth balance butter spread, or real butter in the center. So good!