These muffins are delicious with cream cheese and honey or butter and cheese, the perfect tea-time treat!
Makes 12
Preparation time 15 minutes
Baking time 15 - 20 minutes
You need
• 2½ cups cake flour
• ¾ cup light brown sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• a pinch of salt
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup cooked pumpkin pur e
• 5 tablespoons buttermilk
• 2 extra-large eggs
Here's how
1 Preheat the oven to 200 °C. Sieve the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda and salt together. In a second bowl, combine the oil, pumpkin, buttermilk and eggs. Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
2 Divide the batter between the cups of a greased muffin pan (paper baking cups are optional) and bake for 15 - 20 minutes or until cooked through. Let the
muffins cool down in the pan for a few minutes before you unmould them onto a cooling rack. Serve the muffins with cream cheese and honey or butter and cheese.
