When I say pumpkin, you say how much?
To say I’m obsessed with pumpkin would be the greatest understatement ever made. I have been consuming so much within the past month or so that my skin has adopted an orange hue. (And I don’t fake and bake or use Jersey Shore bronzer, so that’s ruled out as a reason.)
The past week has hit my sweet tooth especially hard. I am a huge fan of giving into any craving you may have, as long as it doesn’t involve a timed eating contest.
I decided to actually use my brain, take a walk on the wild side, and instead of grabbing for a dark chocolate bar, I whipped up these little bebes instead:
Vanilla Protein Pumpkin Muffins
Ingredients:
Into the blender went…
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 scoop Garden of Life Vanilla protein powder
- 1/2 cup sweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1 egg
- 3 handfuls of rolled oats
- 3 tbsp. pumpkin butter
- dash of nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger
- pinch of baking soda and baking powder
- 1/4 cup of vanilla cake mix (optional)
*The pepitas were thrown on in muffin pan before baking*
Simply pour into muffin molds and bake!
(I used Babycakes mini muffin/cupcake cooker- so these cooked approximately 24 mini muffins and took about 45 minutes to complete.)
In a regular oven, set to 350 and bake for 15-18 minutes.
The outcome: Most of the time I shy away from baking with protein powder because the taste is a bit overpowering, but these were the perfect mix of both protein powder and other ingredients! The vanilla taste blends well with the pumpkin.
Tips:
- I would say use 1/2 a scoop of the powder if you aren’t thrilled by lots of vanilla.
- Add in the cake mix if you like a fluffy muffin. They will be extremely moist and pancake batter-like if you don’t.
Do you like to bake? Please tell me you love pumpkin as much as I do?
Peace, love, and pumpkin!
~C.C.D.
These sound delicious!! Do you think they’d work well without the egg too? I have an open can of pumpkin right now and these would be perfect!
Thanks for reading! They probably wouldn’t stick together well, but possibly if you added the cake mix in it would make up for the egg!
I love how pumpkin crazed we all are right now!
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