Healthy Pumpkin Muffins

Easy one bowl healthy pumpkin muffins that are bursting with chocolate chips for the best healthy fall dessert! Filled with real pumpkin and completely gluten free, these pumpkin spice muffins are the best sweet treat!

Come September 1st (let’s be honest, I started pulling a Starbucks move and searching for pumpkin recipes August 20th haha!), my mornings, afternoons, and evenings have been filled with one thing.

Pumpkin.

I’m a lover of all things fall: the sweaters, the cozy boots, the apple picking, pumpkin carving, pumpkin pie making, leaf pile jumping, the whole nine yards. So naturally, I needed to whip up a healthy pumpkin recipe stat for the Banana Diaries because I can’t have you thinking I’m not about fall. So I give you: HEALTHY PUMPKIN MUFFINS!

After all, I’m pretty sure Brittany is synonymous with autumn and the best time of year in the dictionary 😉

Trust me, you’re going to be making these every week 😉

Why are these the best pumpkin spice muffins?

It’s literally like autumn just wrapped up in the most perfectly chocolatey and warm spiced bite!

Can that be a thing?

Seriously though, these healthy pumpkin muffins have the perfect ratio of pumpkin to gluten free flour, making them incredibly moist and decadent without that normal cardboard taste you associate with things being gluten free.

Not one of my taste testers (I’ve now assembled an army of them haha!) thought these gluten free pumpkin muffins were “healthy,” not to mention vegan. That’s a pretty dang good turnout, if you ask me.

Plus, you only need one bowl! Forget your pumpkin mix and just use the real stuff!

Healthy pumpkin muffins ingredients

What’s really cool about these one bowl vegan pumpkin muffins is that the ingredients are extraordinarily simple, and you’ll have a few options if you don’t have every ingredient on hand.

For these muffins, you’ll need:

• Pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
• Gluten free flour: I recommend Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1-to-1 baking flour (not their regular gluten free flour), but this recipe also works with cassava flour for a Paleo version, and regular all-purpose flour for a non gluten free version.
• Coconut sugar: you can use cane sugar here if you don’t mind it not being refined sugar free.
• Maple syrup: for a fall flavor
• Pumpkin spice blend
• Cinnamon
• Olive oil or unsweetened applesauce (for a low fat version)
• Chocolate chips

How to make one bowl pumpkin muffins

Well, the kicker here is that these healthy pumpkin muffins really don’t need all that much instruction! Start by whisking together the dry ingredients in a large bowl.

Then add in the wet ingredients and combine it all together until it’s a thick and consistent batter. Fold in the chocolate chips (if you’re making chocolate chip pumpkin muffins, which I highly recommend).

Scoop the batter into muffin liners and bake!

Now, this whole process comes in handy because these pumpkin muffins are even easier to eat, so it won’t be a hassle making them again!…and again…and again 😉

Trust me, people will be knocking down your doors, so just be prepared if you’re sharing these!

Tips & Tricks

I always love these sections of posts because I feel like you can make a recipe your own in this section. I have a few notes that I would like to add that will really make these vegan pumpkin muffins just knock your boots off (get it? Because FALL!):

1. Don’t feel the need to limit yourself to just chocolate chips! If you like nuts in your muffins, go for it! I would recommend using walnuts or pecans- that would be an amazing combo! If you’re nut free, you could even add in pumpkin seeds for double the pumpkin 😉
2. This recipe works well with a few different flours. So I’ve tested two others flours, aside from my beloved Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1-to-1 baking flour (aka bae. Not sponsored, but boy do I wish it was haha! I love them!): cassava flour works great here for the Paleo crowd, as does regular flour, if you’re just looking for a lightened up vegan pumpkin recipe without needing it to be gluten free.
3. For oil free, use unsweetened applesauce. I’ve tested this with both olive oil and with applesauce, both are delightfully delicious!
4. These muffins are more than just breakfast! You can make these pumpkin spice muffins as mini versions and pack them for a healthy snack or treat, warm them up with a little nut butter, or even crumble up with a scoop of coconut milk ice cream (which I had as a recent dessert- amazing!).

I hope you loved these healthy pumpkin muffins as much as I do! They seriously are so fun and easy to make, so if you give them a go, let me know in the comments below!

And of course, I’d absolutely love to see your beautiful creations on Instagram and Pinterest, so be sure to tag me there (and thank you to all that do! I really love seeing them, you guys are so creative and GREAT bakers!).

Happy baking and pumpkin eating!

More recipes you’ll love:

Baked Gluten Free Cinnamon Sugar Donuts

Apple Pie Overnight Oats

Gluten Free Apple Crumb Cake

Healthy Zucchini Bread

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