Recipe
This Butternut Squash Muffin Recipe Brings The Fall Spices You Needed
Along with crisper weather comes sweaters, coffee mugs, candles, and baking all your favorite Fall-flavored treats. While pumpkin spice is the natural fall favorite, it is not the only flavor profile at hand. Warm banana bread, ginger spice muffins, and fall-inspired apple-spice granola are all great ways to incorporate the flavors of fall into your baking. That being said, we have a new seasonal flavor for you to add into your baked goods: butternut squash. I know what you're thinking. Isn't this just another basic, overly-hyped-about, pumpkin recipe? It is well-known that this squash and a typical pie pumpkin have quite a bit in common, but I can assure you that the flavor and texture of these butternut squash muffins are like no pumpkin bread you've had before.
You may have seen this vibrant vegetable cooked into soups and pasta dishes, but you are missing out if you've never mashed it up and mixed it into something sweet. With a zucchini bread-like consistency and a brighter, softer pumpkin-esque flavor than the typical pumpkin treat, these customizable breakfast muffins are a delicious new way to start your day.
Butternut Squash Muffins
- Prep Time: 1 hr
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
- Servings: 15
Ingredients
- 1 butternut squash
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup oats
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp ground flax seeds
- 1 stick butter or 6 tbsp neutral oil canola oil or vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup your favorite type milk or water
- 1/3 cup sweetener choice I used honey and brown sugar
- oil for greasing the pan
- your favorite Fall mix-ins I used pumpkin seeds and raisins
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After removing them from the oven, allow them to cool in the pan for about 5 minutes before digging in. Meanwhile, brew a cup of coffee or find yourself some jam to enjoy with a muffin when it comes fresh out of the oven.
Spread these muffins with apple butter and enjoy them next to a mug of Chai tea on a lazy weekend morning. Smear one with almond butter for a filling snack or grab a butternut squash muffin on your way to an 8am class for a fall-forward energy boost. No matter how you eat them, these butternut squash muffins are sure to give you all the cozy autumn feelings you long for this fall season.