Recipe: Perfect Pumpkin Chocolate Streusel Muffins

Pumpkin Chocolate Streusel Muffins. This recipe for Pumpkin Muffins with Oats and Chocolate Streusel is about all the good and wonderful things I adore in a pumpkin muffin. The muffins are perfectly moist, flavorful with spices, and topped with a salty, buttery streusel of oats and chocolate. A good, crunchy streusel makes most any baked item even better!

Moist and hearty pumpkin-oat muffins are topped with a brown sugar and oat streusel perfect for a quick breakfast or a holiday brunch. These pumpkin muffins are light and fluffy and come with a delicious chocolate streusel topping. Chocolate and pumpkin make a fantastic pairing so it's really worth doing this little extra step. You can have Pumpkin Chocolate Streusel Muffins using 23 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin Chocolate Streusel Muffins

1. Prepare of shortening- to grease the pan.
2. You need of flour.
3. You need of baking soda.
4. It's of cinnamon.
5. It's of nutmeg.
6. It's of salt.
7. It's of ginger.
8. Prepare of butter- softened.
9. You need of sugar.
10. You need of Eggs.
11. Prepare of pumpkin puree.
12. It's of semisweet chocolate chips.
13. It's of walnuts -- finely chopped.
14. You need of Streusel topping.
15. Prepare of flour.
16. Prepare of brown sugar.
17. Prepare of cinnamon.
18. It's of butter.
19. Prepare of Spiced glaze.
20. You need of powdered sugar.
21. It's of ground cinnamon.
22. Prepare of ground nutmeg.
23. It's of milk - you may need to add a little more.

Save about ⅔ cup of chocolate chips for placing on top of the muffins. Grease your muffin pan with butter and fill your muffin pan with alternating layers of the pumpkin batter, chocolate chips, and cream cheese filling. How to Make Pumpkin Crumb Cake Muffins. Instead of using my iced pumpkin coffee cake recipe as the base, I turned to my pumpkin bread.

Pumpkin Chocolate Streusel Muffins step by step

1. Grease the 12 muffin cups and preheat the oven to 350 degrees..
2. Combine flour with baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger..
3. Cream the butter and sugar together with a mixer on high speed approximately 5 minutes then blend in eggs; beat well until incorporated..
4. Mix at low speed and add the dry ingredients, and pumpkin.
5. Add the chocolate chips and finely chopped walnuts and mix until incorporated..
6. Divide into the 12 prepared muffin pan.
7. For the Streusel topping mix the flour, brown sugar and cinnamon together and with a pastry blender or fork cut in the butter until you have a consistent crumbled topping..
8. Sprinkle evenly over the top of the muffins (there may be a little left over).
9. Bake for 15-20 minutes until the tooth pick comes out clean. Cool, and then glaze with spice glaze..
10. Spiced glaze: Combine powdered sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon. Blend in 3 tablespoons milk one tablespoon at a time until the desired consistency is made (should be thick but pour-able if to thin add powder sugar if to thick add milk)..
11. Place the glaze on the muffins and sprinkle powder sugar if desired..

I LOVE using that bread recipe to make pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. All you do here is take out the chocolate chips, reduce the sugar, and use milk instead of orange juice. They wanted pumpkin muffins thus I happily pulled out a can of pumpkin and started baking. You can also try a pumpkin bread , or a spicy ginger muffin. These take my favorite type of muffin - chocolate chip pumpkin - and make them completely junky.