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Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze

November 22, 2016

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com
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These Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze are amazing. And this is mostly because they are created from my most favorite pumpkin bread recipe EVER from Cooking Light (November 2008): Pumpkin-Honey Beer Quick Bread. After I first made it, I never tried another pumpkin bread recipe again because I love this one so much. Everything is on point: spices, texture, and moisture-EVERYTHING. Also, I really wanted to share ONE pumpkin recipe. I am a food blogger. Jump to Recipe

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com

Even though I make the pumpkin bread every year, last year was the first time I added chocolate chips to the batter and it came out a little funky. Parts of it were overcooked and other sections were practically still batter. So this year I set out to make them into muffins, thinking maybe it would turn out better. I also used miniature chocolate chips. I felt like the regular sized chocolate chips really affected the baking time, moisture content, and texture of the final product.

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com

I also decided to get more precise. ¼ cup of the batter went into each muffin liner to ensure an equal baking time. I reserved about a third of the miniature chips so I could sprinkle them on top of the muffin batter. This made sure that the muffins didn’t have dense packets of chocolate chips in one area and it also made them look prettier.

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com

The Tahini Glaze came about from Instagram inspiration. I kept seeing all these posts pairing tahini with chocolate and I just had to try it. Glazes are really simple, making it the perfect jumping off point for my mad scientist experiments. And of course it goes amazing with the chocolate chips, pumpkin, and spices. It adds a little savory goodness to everything that I absolutely love.

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com

And surprisingly, these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze go really well with this Chocolate Liqueur Maple Peanut Butter Latte.

This Chocolate Liqueur Maple Peanut Butter Latte is a great after dinner digestif drink. The sweet maple and peanut butter syrup and chocolate liqueur pair extremely well with espresso or strongly brewed coffee, and creates the sweet end that every meal needs. This post is sponsored by Drizly. | www.megiswell.com

So perfect! Treat yourself. You deserve it! I hope you all have an amazing Thanksgiving around a groaning table full of fabulous food with the people you love the most. I’m actually all finished with Thanksgiving. My family celebrated it yesterday so I’m chillaxing, stretching my legs, massaging my feet, and sleeping.

Also I categorized these under breakfast because muffins and quick bread I always instinctively think of as breakfast. But these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze also work as a snack or dessert (they taste pretty damn good with vanilla ice cream).

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com
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Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! 
Course Breakfast
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 22 muffins
Author Megan Wells

Ingredients

Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips

  • 3 and 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/3 cup ground flaxseed
  • 2 and 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2/3 cup canola oil
  • 2/3 cup honey beer, at room temp*
  • 1/2 cup egg substitute*
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 and 3/4 cups pureed pumpkin* or a 15 ounce can of canned pumpkin
  • 10 ounces mini chocolate chips

Tahini Glaze

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 4 tablespoons tahini
  • 4 tablespoons water
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt

Instructions

Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips

  1. Place muffin liners in two 12 cup muffin tins. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

  2. Combine flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl and stir with a whisk.

  3. Combine water and flaxseed in a small bowl and set aside.

  4. Combine sugar, canola oil, honey beer, egg substitute, and eggs in a large bowl and beat with a mixer at medium-high speed until well blended.

  5. Add the flaxseed mixture and pumpkin and beat on low speed until just blended.

  6. Add the flour mixture and beat until combined.
  7. Fold in the chocolate chips, reserving 1/3 for later.

  8. Fill each muffin liner with 1/4 cup batter. Sprinkle each muffin with the remaining chocolate chips.

  9. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

  10. Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan before taking out and cooling on a wire rack.

Tahini Glaze

  1. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix until smooth. Pour or brush onto the muffins. This frosts a dozen muffins.

Recipe Notes

*Honey Beer: I've used various different beverages for this ingredient (mead, pumpkin ale, mead style beers, etc.). Try to use beers that use honey in the fermentation process or have honey flavors. But really any beer will do in a pinch. Beer acts as a leavening agent in baking so it actually does do some work in the recipe.

*Egg Substitute (also known as Liquid Egg Substitute): egg substitutes are liquid egg products sold in cartons and contain about 99% egg whites + a little yolk + some other ingredients that help with texture or add nutritional value. I always use EggBeaters Original for this recipe. If you can't find liquid egg substitutes or if you would rather not use them, substitute the 1/2 cup egg substitute with 2 eggs.

(1 whole egg for every 1/4 cup of egg substitute)

*I always use pureed pumpkin. I know canned is supposed to taste the same but I don't think it does. That being said, it is perfectly fine to use it.

The Tahini Glaze only makes enough to frost half the muffins. I wanted to have a mix of frosted/unfrosted. Just double the recipe if you want to frost all the muffins.

Adapted from the "Pumpkin-Honey Beer Quick Bread" recipe, Kathy Kitchens Downie, Cooking Light, November 2008.

My favorite pumpkin bread recipe gets revamped in these Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips and Tahini Glaze. The tahini glaze adds a little savory goodness and pairs amazingly with the chocolate chips, creating savory-sweet muffin greatness! | www.megiswell.com

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  1. Taylor says

    November 28, 2016 at 10:21 am

    These look so incredibly moist and delicious. And the tahini glaze…seriously?! You have me drooling!!!

    Reply
  2. Dannii says

    November 28, 2016 at 9:45 am

    5 stars
    I have been wanting to try pumpkin muffins for ages and seeing these with chocolate chips is making me want to try them even more.

    Reply
  3. swayam says

    November 28, 2016 at 9:26 am

    That color is just so so pretty!! LOVE these. The tahini dip is certainly inspired!

    Reply
  4. Janette@CulinaryGinger.com says

    November 28, 2016 at 8:58 am

    I’m always ready for a pumpkin muffin, but I am very intrigued by the tahini glaze and I really need to try this. Delicious recipe.

    Reply
  5. Kasey @ Spill the Greens says

    November 28, 2016 at 7:29 am

    5 stars
    Oh wow, these look absolutely divine! I’ve never heard of honey beer, but mead in a dessert sounds so lovely. And I’ll have to try tahini in glazes, it sounds like a great way to get things extra creamy!

    Reply
    • Megan Wells says

      November 28, 2016 at 7:46 am

      Thanks Kasey! I’ve asked around and nobody has ever hear of honey beer! I sometimes wonder if the person writing the recipe meant mead but who knows! Every alcohol I’ve tried so far has worked though. And yes! It doesn’t make things extra creamy.

      Reply
  6. Nila @ The Tough Cookie says

    November 23, 2016 at 4:56 am

    These muffins look amazing! You’ve got some serious food photography skills 😉 I also love the idea of using tahini in the glaze. I normally only use it in savory dishes, but now that I’ve seen this recipe, I’m definitely going to try incorporating it in some sweet recipes. But I’ll try it on these muffins first 😉

    Reply
    • Megan Wells says

      November 23, 2016 at 7:06 am

      Thanks so much Nila! And yes-it goes so well with sweets. I think my favorite pairing is still really dark chocolate but I’ve just started experimenting so we’ll see where it takes me!

      Reply
  7. Mary says

    November 23, 2016 at 12:35 am

    I love Cooking Light, I’ve never had a bad experience with any of their recipes. Pumpkin-Honey Beer Quick Bread sound ds a little too good to be true. These Muffins look like the real deal. I think I will treat myself to a latte 🙂

    Reply
    • Megan Wells says

      November 23, 2016 at 7:04 am

      I know! Everything I make from them turns out great, so these muffins are legit thanks to their genius!

      Reply
  8. Sarah @ Champagne Tastes says

    November 22, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    oh yum.. I think I need this and the latte RIGHT NOW. Noms. I love pumpkin!!!

    Reply

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