Jumbo Cranberry Pumpkin Muffins
Ingredients
1 ⅔ cups plus ¼ cup
flour, divided
½ cup plus 3 tbsp.
dark brown sugar, divided
1 ½ tsp.
ground cinnamon, divided
2 tbsp.
roasted and salted pepitas, roughly chopped
1 ½ tbsp.
Kowalski's Unsalted Butter, cold
1 tsp.
baking soda
½ tsp.
ground ginger
¼ tsp.
ground nutmeg (or freshly grated nutmeg)
½ tsp.
kosher salt
2
eggs
1 ¼ cups (about ¾ can)
pumpkin purée (not pie filling)
¾ cup
sugar
½ cup
canola oil
¼ cup
whole milk
¾ cup
Kowalski's Cranberry Sauce or Christmas Jam (from the Grocery Department)
Directions
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together ¼ cup flour, 3 tbsp. brown sugar, ¼ tsp. cinnamon and pepitas. Using your fingertips, rub butter into dry ingredients until crumbly; set crumb mixture aside in the refrigerator.
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together remaining flour, remaining brown sugar, remaining cinnamon, baking soda, spices and salt; set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk eggs with pumpkin purée, white sugar, oil and milk.
- Using a silicone spatula, gently fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients just until moistened (lumps may remain).
- Line a jumbo muffin pan with 6 paper baking cups; fill with batter about ¼ full.
- Add a robust teaspoonful of cranberry sauce to each cup; fill muffin cups about ¾ full of batter.
- Top each cup evenly with remaining cranberry sauce. Using a chopstick or wooden skewer, swirl sauce into batter in an "S" pattern (do not overmix). Let batter rest at room temperature for about 15 min.; sprinkle evenly with crumb mixture.
- Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached (28-31 min.).
- Remove from oven; cool muffins in pan for 5 min.
- Transfer muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.
Note:
- You can use this recipe to make 12 standard-size muffins instead of jumbos; they will take about 7-8 min. less to bake.