Pumpkin muffins

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 400 g pumpkin(s)
• 200 g erythritol (sugar substitute), stevia with powdered sweetener or xylitol (sugar substitute), each in crystalline form
• 100 ml rapeseed oil, refined
• 2 tsp cinnamon powder (Ceylon cinnamon)
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ vanilla pod(s), including the pulp
• 100 g walnuts
• 125 g buckwheat flour
• 125 g flour mix, gluten-free (Mix C from Schär)
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 2 tbsp soy flour
• 6 tbsp water

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 5 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 25 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour

sugar-free, grain-free, vegan

Lightly chop the walnuts so there are still some crunchy pieces in the batter. Grate the pumpkin and place it in a mixing bowl. Add the erythritol, rapeseed oil, cinnamon, salt, vanilla, and walnuts. Mix the ingredients with a hand mixer and let the mixture rest for 5 minutes. This will make the mixture much more moist. Then add the buckwheat flour, flour mix, and baking powder. Mix the soy flour with the water as an egg substitute for two eggs and also add it. Mix the batter thoroughly again with a hand mixer, then fill muffin tins. Place in the oven preheated to 180°C (top/bottom heat) and bake for 25 minutes. Notes: The batter can also be baked as a cake. In a Bundt pan, the baking time is 60 minutes at 180°C (top/bottom heat). Otherwise, the batter will make 12 large muffins. They are very fluffy and moist, made without sugar, grains, or eggs, and smell wonderfully of pumpkin and cinnamon once they’re cooked. There are many pumpkin options. These muffins are excellent with Hokkaido or Atlantic Giant. Both are quite mild and give the muffins a pleasantly light pumpkin flavor. Tonda Padana also works very well, as it intensifies the pumpkin flavor a bit. Pumpkins with nutty or chestnut flavors really bring out the nutty flavor. Just experiment and choose which one you like best. In this case, I used soy flour mixed with water as an egg substitute. It works very well. But there are numerous other vegan alternatives. You can vary and experiment with them. They all work well.