Moist Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins

Total Time: 33 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 18 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup dry rolled oats (the regular kind, not the quick-cooking kind)
• 1 (14 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 3/4 cup low-fat buttermilk
• 1/2 cup water
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 3/4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice or 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg or 1/2 teaspoon dried nutmeg, powder
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt or 1/2 teaspoon table salt

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 into a large bowl measure and mix the oats, pumpkin purree, brown sugar, oil, buttermilk, eggs and water. let this mixture sit while you measure the dry ingredients.
• 3 into a medium bowl measure the flour, spices, baking powder and salt. mix together with a wire whisk.
• 4 pour dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixtue and stir together just until dry ingredients are moistened.
• 5 spray muffin cups with spray realease.
• 6 fill muffin cups a little more than half full.
• 7 bake regular sized muffins for 18 - 20 minutes, smaller muffins for 15 - 16 minutes.
• 8 let muffins sit in pans for 3 or 4 minutes then gently turn out onto baking rack to cool completely.