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Basket of pumpkin muffins with crunchy chopped pecans on top

Pumpkin Muffins - Gluten and Grain free, paleo optional

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Equipment

  • muffin tin
  • 12 Muffin Cups

Ingredients
  

  • 1.5 Cups pumpkin puree sure throw in the whole 1.75 Cup can
  • ¾ Cup cassava flour
  • ½ Cup arrowroot starch
  • ½ Cup almond flour
  • ¾ Cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 Tbs. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. fresh ground nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp. ground cloves
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 4 Tbs. melted butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 Cup Pecans (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 350. Line a muffin pan with 12 muffin liners. Mix all your dry ingredients together – the pro tip is to leave the baking powder out at first and let your mixed batter sit to hydrate 20 mins then add the leaveners - this is better but it isn’t strictly necessary. Add the wet ingredients. Let the batter sit while the oven preheats, add the leaveners if you left them out.
    Gabriel mixing grain-free gluten-free pumpkin muffin batter
  • Fill your muffin cups – they will be quite full – this is ok.
    grain-free gluten-free pumpkin muffin batter filling cups almost to the brim
  • Top with chopped pecans if using.
  • Bake until a toothpick comes out clean or if you are lazy like me until they are just firm to the touch. Frost with cream cheese frosting, sprinkly with pecans, or just eat them as is – they are maybe the fluffiest muffins you will ever have – they might be better than the originals.
    Grain-free gluten-free pumpkin muffins in pan straight out of oven

Notes

Some notes on substitutions: 
Flour: 
You can skip the almond flour and sub in more cassava flour and arrowroot - I'd add an extra quarter cup of both, even all cassava isn't bad.
You can sub potato or tapioca for the arrowroot if you don't have it on hand, and rice flour is a decent sub in for the cassava. 
 
Fats and liquids: 
Sub melted ghee, oil, or melted coconut oil for the butter.  I don't think there is a good sub for eggs or pumpkin here - try my other muffin recipes if pumpkin isn't your thing.  
 
Sugar: 
Maple or coconut sugar work great and with coconut oil, avocado oil, or ghee make these totally paleo