Food Friday: The Best Pumpkin Muffins

We were having a potluck at the office this week. (We do it as a reward for ourselves the week after zone conferences and two weeks after Transfers.  We need a little something about then...) I was making some vegetarian shepherd's pie and was not too confident it would be well-received.  What to make to go along with that delight?  I had some pumpkin so I looked for pumpkin muffin recipes.  This is what I found: 

The Best Pumpkin Muffins (Ever)

Tonight I am copping out a bit by not putting the recipe here, but on the other hand, I followed the recipe precisely.  Well, except that I used a heaping tablespoon of the homemade pumpkin pie spice I made last week instead of whatever she said in the recipe.

The other reason I am giving you the recipe as a link is that I think lots of people would love her blog.

As you can see, I put the muffins in a silicon muffin pan with jack o'lantern faces on them.  That part was not too successful though the heart pan turned out okay muffins. I will stick to using that particular silicon pan for molding chocolates.

You cannot see the faces here but they worked pretty well, and the messy smaller pan was pumpkins that were pretty much okay when they came out of the molds.  The ones in the orange mold were a little too thick, but then, it was not real chocolate.  It was that nasty candy melt stuff so it was possible to bite into it.  Real chocolate is too hard, in my experience.  At least, the way I do it, it is too thick so it is too hard and you worry about breaking off a tooth when you start to consume it.  Oh well.

Maybe I will go on an all-vegetable-and-fruit with a few beans and grains fast for a while so I won't feel the need to make junky food items like the above.  The muffins tasted pretty good, though, and were nice and moist. I HATE muffins and other things that are supposed to be moist but instead are dry.

And the shepherd's pie was quiet edible, in fact.  Dear One finished up the last of it tonight!  Big surprise.  Happy surprise.