Pumpkin Gut Chocolate Chip Muffins

Pumpkin guts are the stringy flesh bits surrounding the seeds; put them to good use in these moist spiced muffins with mini chocolate chips.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 20 mins
• Total Time: 40 mins
• Calories: 495 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups miniature semisweet chocolate chips
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 ½ cups brown sugar
• 4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
• 1 tablespoon clarified butter (ghee)
• 1 ¾ cups pumpkin guts
• ½ cup butter, cubed and at room temperature

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin with ghee.

Step 2

Separate the seeds from the stringy pumpkin guts. Place guts into a blender or food processor; pulse until pureed.

Step 3

Mix brown sugar and butter together in a bowl until combined. Add pumpkin puree and eggs; whisk until well blended.

Step 4

Sift 3 cups flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a bowl. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and stir until absorbed. Add as much of the remaining 1 cup flour as needed to create a batter that is moist but thick enough to stand a spoon in. Stir in chocolate chips.

Step 5

Divide batter evenly between the 12 muffin cups.

Step 6

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick poked into the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.