Skinny Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Walnut Streusel

Description

These are everything you’d want a muffin to be: moist, dense, bursting with flavor, and topped with a tasty streusel. Optional: drizzle with powdered sugar mixed with milk for a touch of sweetness.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
  • 3 egg whites
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ⅓ cup olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons butter, diced
  • 2 tablespoons oats
  • ¼ cup chopped walnuts
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 12-cup muffin tins.
  2. Sift together whole wheat flour
  3. all-purpose flour
  4. baking powder
  5. pumpkin pie spice
  6. cinnamon
  7. and salt in a large bowl.
  8. Combine pumpkin puree
  9. egg whites
  10. and egg in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until combined. Mix in white sugar
  11. brown sugar
  12. olive oil
  13. and vanilla extract. Slowly add flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture
  14. stirring until just combined. Fill the prepared muffin cups a little more than 1/2 full with batter.
  15. Combine brown sugar
  16. diced butter
  17. oats
  18. walnuts
  19. and flour for the streusel in a small bowl. Use a fork or your hands to combine until mixture resembles rough crumbs. Divide crumbs evenly amongst the muffin cups.
  20. Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed
  21. about 20 minutes.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 40 mins

Servings: 24

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