Cinnamon Sugar Mini Pumpkin Muffins 🎃🍁 are FAST, EASY, and bursting with warm fall flavor. Each soft, bite sized muffin is coated in cinnamon sugar for a sweet, slightly crisp finish. They’re perfect for breakfast, brunch, snacking
Easiest Recipe for Mini Pumpkin Muffins
- Mini food is my downfall. It’s so cute and easy to pop, one after the next. The cute and easy factor, combined with pumpkin, and look out. Impossible to resist.
- These mini pumpkin muffins are soft, moist, fluffy yet pleasantly dense, and packed with fall spices. They’re so flavorful and make your house smell amazing. I’d scratch-and-sniff the walls if I could while they bake.
- A nice bonus is that they’re on the healthier side, at least that’s what I tell myself. There are no eggs, dairy, or butter. Perfect if you happen to run out one of those ingredients, too. I used my favorite, easy, and accidentally vegan pumpkin quick bread recipe because it never lets me down. I’ve made it as full-size muffins, as a cake, and as a loaf.
- The muffins are great on their own, but I can’t resist tossing them in cinnamon-sugar. I find the cinnamon-sugar sticks just fine without dipping the muffins in melted butter, which keeps them lighter. As I ate 5 in about 5 seconds.
Ingredients in Mini Pumpkin Muffins
- All-purpose flour, baking powder, spices, and salt: These dry ingredients give the mini muffins structure, help them rise, and add cozy pumpkin spice flavor. You can adjust the spices to taste or use just pumpkin pie spice if you do not want to measure multiple spices. To make the muffins gluten-free, use a gluten-free all-purpose baking flour, not almond flour or coconut flour.
- Granulated sugar, light brown sugar, pumpkin puree, molasses, and vanilla: These add sweetness, moisture, and rich fall flavor to the muffin batter.
- Coconut oil: Coconut oil keeps the muffins moist and springy without making them taste coconutty. Vegetable oil or canola oil can be used instead.
- Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk : I use Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk often for baking because it tastes great and keeps this recipe dairy-free. Any unsweetened dairy or non-dairy milk will work.
- Optional mix-ins: Mini chocolate chips, finely chopped nuts, or dried fruit can be added. Keep the mix-ins small since these are mini muffins.
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Mini Pumpkin Muffins
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, spices, and salt.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the sugars, pumpkin, oil, milk, molasses, and vanilla.
- Pour the pumpkin mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. The batter is quite thick, but if yours is seemingly too thick, add a splash of milk to thin it out.
- Divide the muffin batter between 24 mini muffin cups and bake until the tops are set, springy to the touch, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Once the muffins are out of the oven, roll them in cinnamon sugar as soon as they’re cool enough to handle.
Cinnamon Sugar Mini Pumpkin Muffins
Ingredients
Muffins
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¾ cup pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling
- ⅓ cup coconut oil, melted (vegetable or canola oil may be substituted)
- ¼ cup Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk, other milks may be substituted including coconut, soy, rice, cow
- 2 tablespoons mild or medium molasses
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Cinnamon Sugar Coating
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Spray two 12-count mini muffin pans (or use one Non-Stick 12-Cup Regular Muffin Pan) very well with floured cooking spray or grease and flour the pans; set aside.
- Muffins
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and optional salt; set aside.
- In a separate large bowl, whisk together the sugars, pumpkin, oil, milk, molasses, and vanilla until combined.
- Pour the wet pumpkin mixture over the dry ingredients, and stir until just combined; don’t overmix. Batter is quite thick and if yours is seemingly too thick, add a splash of milk to thin it.
- Divide batter equally among the cavities of the prepared pans. Each cavity will be just under 3/4 full (don’t exceed 3/4 full or they could overflow).
- Bake for about 11 to 12 minutes (start checking at 8 minutes and keep a very close eye on them because mini muffins cook quickly and all pan sizes and ovens vary), or until tops are set, springy to the touch, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs dangling but no batter (if making full-size, baking time will be similar to this recipe).
- Allow muffins to cool in pans for about 10 to 15 minutes before removing and placing on a rack to cool completely. They can be dipped in the cinnamon-sugar coating as soon as they’re cool enough to handle.
- Cinnamon Sugar CoatingIn a medium bowl, add the sugar, cinnamon, and stir to combine.
- Gently roll each muffin through cinnamon-sugar until evenly coated. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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More Pumpkin Recipes:
If you haven’t already pre-ordered it, Cooking With Pumpkin: Recipes That Go Beyond the Pie is my second cookbook and the official release date is October 6. There’s over 50 pumpkin recipes including sweets, savory, drinks, and a photo for nearly every recipe. I’d be super grateful if you headed over to Amazon.
Vegan Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins — My favorite pumpkin muffin recipe, and it just happens to be vegan. Today’s muffins are adapted from this recipe.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Chocolate Ganache — It’s a cross between a pumpkin cake with just a bit of the buttery qualities of a yellow cake-mix-cake, but entirely from scratch, and there’s loads of chocolate in every bite.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Brownies — — Rich, fudgy brownies topped with pumpkin and chocolate chips!! An EASY, no mixer pumpkin brownie recipe that’s FASTER than using a boxed mix!
Soft and Chewy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies — The cookies are soft, thick, perfectly chewy and not cakey which is a problem that often plagues pumpkin cookies.
Pumpkin Crumb Coffee Cake — A FAST and EASY no-mixer coffee cake with rich pumpkin flavor!! Super soft, tender, and topped with the BEST crumble topping that you’ll fall in love with!
Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Bread — Super soft, tender, moist pumpkin bread with a slightly crunchy cinnamon sugar topping!! The mini loaves are EASY, brimming will fall flavors, totally IRRESISTIBLE, and accidentally vegan!
Oatmeal To-Go Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins — These pumpkin chocolate chip muffins are essentially baked oatmeal bites. They’re the perfect grab-and-go breakfast or snack!
This conversation is sponsored by Silk. The opinions and text are all mine.
Originally published September 6, 2019 and republished October 7, 2022 with updated text.
These are freakin awesome!!! Made them twice already. 😋
These are freakin awesome!!! Made them twice already. 😋
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad you’ve already made them twice!
Hi, I’ve been following you for quite a while now & I’m really enjoying your recipes. I’m new to using some of the ingredients you use that are healthy. I would like to ask a question about coconut oil. What is the best brand to buy, is it organic and where do you purchase yours? There are so many brands of coconut oil out there!
Thank you,
Johnnie McLaughlin
I have been using coconut oil for about 15 years. I have used tons of brands. These days I buy Trader Joe’s the only one they sell https://amzn.to/2XkoQP1 which is organic. Feel free to experiment with brands. Just melt it momentarily in the micro or in a a kettle if it’s not in liquid form and you can proceed with the recipe. Or you can use another oil as well, canola, vegetable, etc. if you don’t want to buy coconut oil.
Thanks for this wonderful recipe idea – cinnamon is the perfect spice for upcoming fall, and it goes without saying that cinnamon, pumpkin, muffin is a magic combination ;-)
Thanks for this wonderful recipe idea – cinnamon is the perfect spice for upcoming fall, and it goes without saying that cinnamon, pumpkin, muffin is a magic combination ;-)
I totally agree about that magic combination!
So I know this recipe was posted over a year ago, but I was looking for a dairy free pumpkin muffin recipe and came across these on pinterest! Not the first recipe of yours I’m going to try.. I love your coconut oil recipes for cookies! the people at my boyfriend’s work call me Cookie Lady because of your recipes! Huge fan. Anyway, I was wondering if maple syrup could be substituted for the molasses in these muffins? I don’t use molasses all that often so I would hate to have to go out and buy some just for these…
Thanks for trying so many recipes of mine and glad they’ve come out great for you! And that you’re the Cookie Lady now :)
With this one I would just omit the molasses rather than adding maple syrup personally, but you could use maple if you want. The molasses does add that classic fall, homey flavor and I do recommend it. For 4 bucks it’s worth keeping a jar around for me with fall baking season but do whatever you think is best. Enjoy the muffins!
These look so cute and tasty! Great recipe!
I hated breakfast growing up so my grandparents let me eat those little prepacked mini muffins. These look 100x times better. Time to relive those breakfasts!
P.S. I had no idea you had another cookbook coming out. Congrats! Can’t wait to see what other pumpkin creations are in there!
Thanks, Krystle, for the well-wishes about my new book! :)
These look like the perfect treat to bring to my daughters preschool leader day this month. Thanks Averie!
What a perfect little bite of fall!
These look perfectly poppable, love the cinnamon sugar coating!
OK. Those are absolutely darling, and I bet they taste divine. I love your photographs, too!
Thanks for the compliments!
These remind me of pumpkin snicker doodles in muffin form, which must be amazing!
That’s a great description!
These are the cutest muffins ever!!
Mini and Vegan means I can eat as many of these as I want, right?! ;) Congrats on the cookbook, as well. I’m a pumpkin fanatic so I can’t wait to check it out!
EXACTLY!! :)
And thanks for the well-wishes on my book!
Fed ex just delivered your pumpkin cookbook…so excited perfect timing as it’s 45 degrees here this am in CT great weather for baking…
Oh that’s awesome!! LMK what you make! Thanks, Lisa!!!