Paleo Pumpkin Muffins
Looking to offset the flood of refined sugar coming your family’s way this Halloween? Grab the kiddos and bake up a batch of these muffins—put one in every backpack Halloween morning and hope for the best:)
Makes 12 muffins
What you need
1 1/4 cups almond flour
½ cup coconut flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
¼ teaspoon salt
2 eggs, lightly beaten
¾ cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup Tessemae’s Mayonnaise
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup chopped pecans
What you do
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with liners or oil lightly.
- Stir together flours, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice and salt.
- In another bowl, stir together eggs, mayonnaise, pumpkin, vanilla and honey. Add pumpkin mixture to dry ingredients and mix until just blended.
- Stir in pecans, then divide among muffin liners so each is about ¾ full (about ¼ cup each).
- Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center tests clean. Cool muffin tin for 5 minutes on a wire rack, then run a thin knife around each indent and turn muffins out; cool completely before eating.