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Mini Pumpkin Muffins with White Chocolate Drizzle & Pumpkin Spice Sugar

These bite-size pumpkin muffins are soft, spiced, and drizzled with sweet white chocolate, then finished with a sparkling pumpkin spice sugar. A cozy fall treat that looks bakery fancy but is easy to make at home.
Makes 24 muffins
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 22 minutes
Servings: 24 muffins
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American

Ingredients
  

For the muffins
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • ½ cup pumpkin puree
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil or melted butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup milk
For the white chocolate drizzle
  • ½ cup white chocolate chips
  • 1 tsp coconut oil or shortening, helps it melt smoothly
Pumpkin spice sugar topping
  • 2 tbsp granulated sugar
  • ½ tsp pumpkin pie spice

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven: Set to 350℉. Line a 24 cup muffin pan with paper liners or grease lightly.
  2. Mix dry ingredients: In a medium bowl whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice.
    mini pumpkin muffins dry ingredients in a bowl
  3. Mix wet ingredients: In another bowl, whisk pumpkin puree, brown sugar, egg, oil, vanilla, and milk until smooth.
    mini pumpkin muffin wet ingredients in a bowl
  4. Combine: Gently stir wet into dry until just combined. Don't over mix.
  5. Fill pan: Spoon batter into dry muffin cups, filling each about 3/4 full.
    mini pumpkin muffins in mini muffin tin
  6. Bake: Bake 12 -14 minutes, or until muffins spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick comes out clean.
  7. Cool: Let muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then move to a wire rack to cool completely.
  8. Prepare drizzle: Melt white chocolate chips and coconut oil in the microwave in 20-second bursts, stirring until smooth.
  9. Decorate: Drizzle white chocolate over cooled muffins with a spoon or piping bag.
  10. Sprinkle: While the drizzle is still wet, sprinkle the pumpkin spice sugar evenly over the tops. Let set before serving.
    mini pumpkin muffins