In the fall or winter, you need to try this recipe at least once. Pumpkin muffins are aromatic and bright orange like autumn leaves. With a mug of fragrant herbal tea in one hand and with pumpkin cake in the other, all symptoms of depression instantly disappear.
A little about pumpkin
One of the healthiest vegetables is pumpkin. It can be used to prepare an extraordinary variety of delicious and healthy dishes that will please everyone - from soups to desserts.
Everyone knows that pumpkin contains a huge amount of vitamins and minerals. In addition, pumpkin is a dietary food and a rich source of fiber. Pumpkin dishes energize, improve mood and well-being, help smooth wrinkles, rejuvenate and cleanse the body, and improve skin condition. Pumpkin consists of 90% water, but despite this, it contains a lot of proteins, carbohydrates and amino acids, for example, vitamins A, C, E, K, group B, minerals magnesium, calcium, fluorine, zinc, phosphorus and others. Also pumpkin improves blood condition.
In addition to the pumpkin pulp itself, pumpkin seeds also have useful properties. They are known for their antiparasitic properties, as well as their high content of vitamin E, which helps to slow down the aging process, improve the condition of the skin, hair and nails.
Pumpkin goes well with almost all foods. First of all, these are various vegetables and fruits, then cereals and milk, seafood.
Pumpkin can be prepared in any way - in the form of soups, baked goods, porridge, pancakes, pies, stews, or in pure form.
Pumpkin and cottage cheese muffin
Pumpkin can be used to make a variety of desserts such as charlotte, cake, cookies, pies and more.
One of the easy and simple recipes for delicious pumpkin baked goods is a muffin. Usually, children are not very fond of pumpkin in pure form or in porridge, but such delicious muffins will not leave any child indifferent.
The dough for this dish is made in just ten minutes, and it will take 45 minutes to bake.
To prepare three servings of pumpkin muffins, you will need the following components: 150 grams of pumpkin, 50 grams of vegetable oil, 1 bag of vanillin, one chicken egg, half a teaspoon of baking soda, 150 grams of sugar, 200 grams of wheat flour, 125 grams of cottage cheese and salt on the tip of a knife …
The pumpkin should be chosen in a bright yellow color, without foreign odors. It is also important to choose good cottage cheese - it should be natural, without various additives.
To make the cupcakes puffy, the flour must be of the highest grade.
The pumpkin must be separated from the peel and chopped with a blender until mushy.
Put sugar and eggs in a deep bowl and mix with a whisk or mixer. Then add pumpkin puree there and mix again.
At the same time, the cottage cheese is whipped with a blender until smooth and transferred into a mixture of eggs, sugar and pumpkin. Mix all components well.
Then sifted flour, oil, salt, soda and vanillin are added to this mass and mixed again.
The finished mass is poured into a pre-prepared baking dish or into several small molds. During the baking process, the dough will increase in volume, this should be taken into account when filling out the forms.
Bake the cake for 45 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.
The baking time may vary depending on the characteristics of the oven.
A little trick: in order to find out the readiness of the baking, you need to pierce the product with a toothpick or wooden stick. If the stick is dry, the cake is ready.
According to English traditions, it is customary to drink tea with warm butter cakes.
But at the discretion of the hostess, the cupcakes can be pre-cooled, then served.
Aromatic pastries will amaze all family members and guests with their taste and tenderness.
Pumpkin Milk Cinnamon Cupcake
This recipe for making muffins will amaze you with its simplicity and mouth-watering aroma of cinnamon and pumpkin. The cooking time will not take much - 30 minutes.
To bake eight muffins, you will need: 90 grams of butter, 300 grams of wheat flour, one tablespoon of ground cinnamon, three eggs, one tablespoon of sugar, 200 ml of milk, 200 grams of peeled pumpkin, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt.
First, you need to mix all the dry ingredients in a deep bowl: flour (sift beforehand), baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt.
In another bowl, mix eggs, milk and butter. Pour sugar into them and beat with a blender or mixer. Gently pour the dry mixture into the milk mixture and knead the mass. Next, add pumpkin to the mass, previously grated or crushed into a mushy state.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Pour the mass into the molds, leaving a little space on top so that the cake rises and does not flow out.
Bake the muffins for 25 minutes or until tender, depending on the oven.
After baking, let the muffins stand for ten minutes, then put on a dish and cool. Can be served at the table.
You can decorate the muffins with powdered sugar on top.
Pumpkin muffin with semolina
Cupcake is a complete breakfast. And if it is made on the basis of semolina and pumpkin, then it is doubly useful and can energize for a long time.
The preparation time for the cake is about 1 hour. The calorie content of baked goods is about 230 kilocalories.
Required ingredients: One cup of semolina, 250 grams of peeled pumpkin, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 100 grams of sugar (preferably brown), 100 butter, two chicken eggs, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and one pinch of salt.
The pumpkin must be prepared: peel, seeds and fibers. Rinse, dry and place on a baking sheet. Send the pumpkin to bake for 20 minutes in a preheated oven to 180 degrees. Alternatively, the pumpkin can be boiled in water for 15 minutes, allowing excess water to drain afterwards. After cooking the pumpkin, it must be cooled, cut into small slices. After placing it in a bowl, heat it with a crush until puree.
Then add semolina, sugar, salt, baking powder and cinnamon to the mass. Mix the mass well with the addition of butter.
A little trick: to make the dish even healthier, you can add honey instead of sugar.
Leave the dough for 15 minutes to swell the semolina and then mix again.
Separately, you need to beat the eggs in a fluffy foam and transfer to the dough. Mix everything well. The baking mixture is ready. In consistency, it should resemble thick sour cream.
The dough is laid out in a pre-greased form and sent to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. The cake should be baked for 40 minutes.
You can check the readiness of the baked goods using a wooden stick as described above.
The fragrant cupcake is ready.
Pumpkin muffins
A muffin is a small portioned cake. Usually a muffin can be distinguished from a cake by the presence of cream on top or a variety of dyes.
The renowned chef bakes pumpkin muffins for his kids. They turn out to be incredibly tasty, and the recipe will not complicate any housewife. One has only to observe the proportions correctly and have a little patience.
To make pumpkin muffins, you will need two sets of ingredients: for the muffins themselves and for the cream for them.
Muffin dough: 400 grams of pumpkin, 350 grams of brown sugar, 4 chicken eggs, one pinch of sea salt, 300 grams of wheat flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, one handful of walnuts, 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 175 grams of olive oil.
To prepare the cream, you will need: the zest of one clementine (or orange, but clementine is more tender) and 1 lemon, the juice of half a lemon, half a glass of sour cream, two full teaspoons of powdered sugar, one bag of vanillin.
The pumpkin is cut into small cubes and chopped with a blender. Sugar, eggs, a pinch of salt, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nuts and butter should be sent to the pumpkin puree. Grind all components with a blender until smooth.
Transfer the mass to the prepared molds, leaving about one quarter of the free space on top.
Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.
Next, the muffins should be allowed to stand for ten minutes.
To prepare the cream, the zest of clementine (or orange), lemon, lemon juice, sour cream, vanillin and powdered sugar are mixed in a deep bowl. The cream is ready.
The cooled muffins are decorated with cream on top.
Optionally, you can decorate with the remains of citrus peel or whatever is in the kitchen to your taste and design.
A beautiful and delicious dessert is ready to serve.
Pumpkin muffins are great to enjoy with family and friends with aromatic tea.
