Paleo Pumpkin Spiced Muffins
October 17, 2012 
Primally Inspired 
I know, I know, another pumpkin recipe! Bear with me, but this one is so worth it. I love cooking and baking with local in season foods and right now I can get pumpkins, sweet potatoes and all kinds of winter squash fresh and at great prices at my farmer’s market. Plus you all know how much I love pumpkin flavors – Fall all year around in my little world 
This is my all time favorite muffin recipe and I’d put them in a contest for best pumpkin spiced muffin any day of the week – that’s how good they are. I can hardly wait until they are done baking and the aromas that will come out of your oven are delightful. This recipe is great for breakfast or for a snack. Whenever I make a batch, I add in dark chocolate chips to half the batch and keep the other half plain. I can’t decide which way I like them best.
Paleo Pumpkin Spiced Muffins
Makes 10-11 muffins
Ingredients:
4 free-range eggs
1 cup roasted pumpkin, sweet potato, butternut squash or canned pumpkin
1/3 cup maple syrup
¼ cup melted coconut oil or melted grass-fed butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup coconut flour (do not substitute another flour – it will not work)
1 T pumpkin pie spice or make your own: 2 tsp cinnamon and ¼ tsp each: ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp sea salt
optional add in’s: ½ cup dark chocolate chips, ½ cup raisins, pecans or other nuts
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Whisk eggs, pumpkin, maple syrup, coconut oil and vanilla together in a large bowl. Stir in coconut flour, pumpkin spice, baking soda and salt. Add any optional add-in’s now. Mix until combined. Pour into paper lined muffin tray. Bake for 30 minutes. Enjoy!
This recipe is also featured on the Real Food Holiday Carnival found here!
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I couldn’t resist making these tonight. I had all the ingredients on hand so I popped them in the oven and oh my lanta. I agree, they could win a contest. Another amazing recipe that my family loves thanks to you.
Thanks so much for the comment, Gina! These don’t last long in my house either. I’m lucky if any are left after 20 minutes
Glad you all like them!
Made these over the weekend and the whole family loved them. They are already asking me to make them again. I’m loving the recipes on this site. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words, Monica! I’m really glad that I can share them with you
Great recipe! They were delicious!
These were delicious! I’ve already made them twice in the last week. We all love them.
We love these! I’ve been making them twice a week since you posted them!
These look great! I have a question about a possible alteration. Where I live I can’t get my hands on pure maple syrup (everything that says Maple Syrup here is actually imitation – sugar water with Maple flavoring). I was thinking of substituting honey, but what would you suggest? I wonder if I should do a 1-1 exchange, or more or less honey than the amount of syrup in the recipe? What would you suggest? Thanks for sharing the recipe!!
Hi Meghan! I use honey and maple interchangeably a lot and I think honey would be delicious in these. It is a 1-1 substitute. I haven’t tried honey in this recipe yet so I’d love for you to write back and let me know how you liked them with honey
thanks for the comment!!
Hi this is our new favorite muffin recipe!
I love pumpkin! Thanks for the recieps. I’ve been making pumpkin pie oatmeal lately. I froze some pumpkin puree in an ice cube tray. For every serving of oatmeal I add one pumpkin cube and then some cinnamon and nutmeg.
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I thikthese look great too. We arent nto ultra sweet and pumpkins already sweet. What are your thoughtson omitting the sweetener altogether?
Hi Sarena, thanks! I think it’d be worth a shot to try them without any sweetener. If I remember correctly, when I was experimenting with this recipe, I used only 1 T maple syrup at first. While it still tasted decent to me, it seemed adding a little bit more really brought out the pumpkin spice flavor. The 1/3 cup doesn’t make these ultra sweet, but if your taste buds are really sensitive to sugar, I’d maybe try 1 T maple syrup or go ahead and omit it. If you do, let me know how you like it!
Thanx i may just do that!
We love these! A lot of the paleo pumpkin muffins don’t have as much flavor as these. These are great and by far my favorite paleo pumpkin spiced muffin.
I’ve made my family a lot of different paleo pumpkin muffins, but these are the best ones! Thanks for the great recipe!
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how do you think these would do if you subbed banana for the pumpkin? I have had great success with the recipe as is. Thanks for sharing! The banana bread muffins I have found in paleo recipes are not sweet at all and I thought this might work.
I think that’s such a great idea! I think it would turn out really yummy!
Thank you for responding (-:
Did you ever try sub banana????
I just whipped up a batch and they are almost gone between us, including a very picky 3 year old! Thank you so much for this recipe!, it looks like I will be making another batch this afternoon
haha! So awesome!!
Just made these and I don’t think they turned out right. Seem too moist almost like they didn’t cook enough. I put them back into the oven but still don’t seem right. Did anyone else have trouble???
Margaret, after they cool, put them in the fridge for a few hours and they should firm up nicely. These are really moist muffins but if you are finding they are too moist, putting them in the fridge will help. Hope that helps!
Mine were like that at first. I baked them a lot longer than called for. When the tops were done I took them out of the oven and out f the tins immediately. Then I left them out overnight. They are perfect now. I keep them in the fridge.
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I love these muffins. I have given the recipe to many of my friends and there is a whole group of families eating these for breakfast every morning!! Your recipes are awesome, please keep em coming!!!
Woohoo! Thanks, Kari
Love hearing that!
Can anyone please tell me why my paleo muffing come out raw/gooey in the middle? I always need to cook them longer than stated and they end up icky in the middle. I appreciate any suggestions.
Aw man, not sure, but sounds like you may need to cook them longer until they are done in the middle. Just pop some foil over the top so they don’t burn and can continue cooking.
g\Great idea! Thank you!!!
Just an FYI,
the ingredients include vanilla but it is missing in the directions…I just added it with the eggs.
Thanks, Laura! I’ll update it now!
Just curious… How many is too many to eat at one time? I added chocolate chips and pecans and I can’t stop eating them. I’ve had 4 today!!!!!!
LOL! I hear you!!! I usually eat 3 or 4 at a time, too
One batch of these is gone in less than a day at my house!