Easy Pumpkin Spice Muffins
I have had this recipe for so long that I can’t remember who passed it to me. I am so excited to share it with all of you and I’ll give you all our little secrets to go along with it. These easy pumpkin muffins are usually gobbled right up in our home. They are wonderful when you need to make something fast for school, potluck, work, new neighbor, or even a quick snack or you kids/grandkids.
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The best part is that it all starts with 2 ingredients!
THESE ARE THE INGREDIENTS YOU’LL NEED
For the base you need a box of cake mix and a can of pumpkin pie filling – that’s it!
(I’m using spice cake mix – but you can use yellow cake mix or any cake mix you want.) I love this recipe because it’s easier than other pumpkin recipes. You don’t need all of the dry ingredients and wet ingredients like butter, flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, vanilla extract, salt, you get it the list goes on and on. You could use your own pumpkin puree rather than canned pumpkin.
This recipe could also be turned into pumpkin pancakes, or even a regular cake, and spruce it up with some cream cheese frosting.
Easy Pumpkin Spice Muffins Video
HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS
Stir these 2 ingredients together in a bowl.
It should look like this when you are done mixing.
You can fill your muffin pan up right now or …
We like to add chocolate chips to ours.
You can add so many things to this muffin recipe. Try carrots, raisins, eggs, pecans, walnuts, wheat germ, yogurt, etc.
You can also add additional fall spices to taste, this includes nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cinnamon.
Scoop your pumpkin mixture into a muffin tin. You can make 12 larger muffins or 24 medium muffins. The batter is dense so it will not rise much.
Place your muffins in a preheated oven at 350 degrees.
Bake for 25 minutes. (Ovens vary in times, so be cautious the first time you make them.)
Poke a muffin with a toothpick and if it comes out clean – they’re done.
Other options include: (our secrets revealed)
Pick any kind of cake mix
Use different add ins
Instead of muffins –
Drop them on a greased cookie sheets for cookies/muffin tops
Put them in a pan for a coffee cake.
Try them and tell me if you like them please.
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Easy Pumpkin Spice Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 box cake mix
- 1 can pumpkin
Instructions
- Mix together 1 box cake mix & 1 can pumpkin
- Scoop your batter into greased muffin pan or use cupcake liners
- Bake 350 for 25 minutes
Video
Notes
These look and sound amazing, my friend! Oh, how I love pumpkin and these look to be right up my alley 🙂
Thanks for sharing! I hope you had a nice Labor Day. Hugs!
Thank you Stephanie 🙂 I am so excited about this time of year and pumpkin spice everything there is! Hugs my friend!
These sound and look so tasty, can hardly wait to make them. Will be nice change from cookies. Can imagine how good they would taste heated in micro then slit apart and add some butter between layers, ooh so good. Sigh, will never be skinny, love food too much.
Have wonderful week
Thank you JaneEllen. I love your idea of warming them up in the microwave or even briefly in the toaster oven 🙂
Your Pumpkin Spice Muffins will be perfect for fall! I really appreciate you sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday and hope you are having a safe and enjoyable weekend.
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Miz Helen
Thank you Miz and I enjoyed being a part of a Full Plate Thursdays 🙂
We are a huge pumpkin spice family & I will definitely be trying these! Thank you for sharing at #merrymonday . We hope you will link up with us again!
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Thanks Michelle – I’m so thankful for being invited to your party and I am so pleased you want to try the muffins too!
What a lovely recipe – very versatile! Thank you for sharing your Easy Pumpkin Spice Muffins with us at the Hearth and Soul Link Party, Chas. Hope to ‘see’ you again this week.
Thank you April, and thank you for having a wonderful place where so many can share ideas!
this recipe sounds super yummy and I love the idea of the extra add ins to add nutritional value as well
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Thank you Angie, I will be sure to stop by 🙂
Putting ingredients on my shopping list! Yum
I’m so glad you want to give it a try 🙂 Please let me know what you think 🙂
Hi Chas, I tried the muffins and although I really like making a recipe exactly as the author posts it the first time I make it, I had to make a few changes. I knew my mom and husband wouldn’t like spice cake, so I used carrot cake mix. I wanted to put chocolate chips in, but didn’t because they only had a huge box at the store I went to. So the final verdict was: My mom didn’t like them, which was no big surprise. My husband and I really liked them a lot. Especially the next day. I put them in a baggie and they were just as moist as they were when I first made them. I did spritz some oil on the paper muffin cups and they didn’t stick at all. Have you tried this with a banana break mix or some other quick bread mix? I wonder if that would work too.
I’m so glad you gave them a try and way to go for adapting the recipe to fit your family better! I have done a lot of mixing and matching with cake box mixes but I haven’t specifically tried a quick bread mix. I would think it should work just as well as the mixes are very similar. I’m sure the pumpkin with a pumpkin, cinnamon, or gingerbread mix would be wonderful. You have intrigued me, I just might have to give it a try 🙂
I’m going to try it too. I’ll let you know! CINNAMON anything is my favorite, and I love pumpkin too.
Yes please. Keep me posted, I’d love to know and you and I have similar tastes – cinnamon and pumpkin all the way! 😉
I made it with a quick bread mix and it worked great. I made it in an 8×8 glass baking dish and it came out perfect. This time my mom actually liked it. We actually bought some more to make.
Thank you so much for sharing! What kind of quick bread did your mom like?
Thank you for hosting! This is what I featured the week of 8-10 to 8-14 on my blog. On Tuesday was Strawberry Rhubarb Pie. Wednesday was Double Crust Cherry Pie. Thursday was Double Crust Bluebarb Pie. And winding up this final week of Fruit Pies was my Double Crust Peach Pie. Enjoy!
Thank you so much for joining the party Marilyn – can’t wait to see those recipes you’ve shared.
Now I want to bake!
You are so sweet Tamar, thank you. They’re so easy
These look delicious! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Encouraging Hearts and Home. Pinned.
Thank you Joanne, we love them and they’re so easy to make.
We love everything pumpkin at our house and these muffins sound fabulous! Thank you for hosting the link party. Our links this week are: #74, #75, & #76.
Thank you so much for joining the party, can’t wait to see those recipes Amy. I’m so glad you like the pumpkin muffins – we like everything pumpkin here as well.
Chas, these sound so easy and so delicious! These would be a great treat for me to make for Mom and Dad when I get back home! I do love easy recipes!
Thanks Chloe, they are so delicious and easy to make. Love that you want to bring them to your parents. Have a great trip!
I saw your link at the Lou Lou Girls link up. These muffins look amazing! Pinned for later!
Thank you so much Marielle, and they’re so easy. They don’t last 2 days in my house… great fiber for kids.
These look amazing Chas! I am a lover of anything with pumpkin in it! Thank you for sharing with Charming Homes and Gardens!
Thank you so much Kim. They’re gone in 2 days at my house and so easy to make.
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Thank you for sharing at #OverTheMoon. Pinned and shared. Have a lovely week. I hope to see you at next week’s party too! Please stay safe and healthy. Come party with us at Over The Moon! Catapult your content Over The Moon! @marilyn_lesniak @EclecticRedBarn
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I am so ready for fall and have pumpkin spice on the brain! I actually ordered pumpkin purée not too long ago so I am awaiting for its arrival. And once it gets here, I am going to make a batch of these babies! I am getting hungry just thinking about it!
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Yay, thank you so much Maureen. I’m so very excited you’re going to make these! Let me know what you think. They disappear in 2 days at my house.
This recipe looks so yummy. Thanks for all instructions?.
Thank you Olivia! It’s so easy, delicious, and they’re gone in 2 days at my house 🙂
I’m not a fan of pumpkin spice, but my husband ADORES it. He rarely buys anything pumpkin spice simply due to the fact he focuses on picking up treats that work for both of us more often than not. That being said, I am going to have to use this recipe to treat him with a little special surprise. I can just imagine his face when he comes home to the smell of freshly baked pumpking spice muffins!
This just made my day Britt! What a sweet thing you are going to do for your husband! Thank you so much for sharing and I hope he likes them as much as we do.
Just found this recipe. Sounds yummy! Because I have several boxes of Yellow and White cake mixes on hand that I would like to use, do you have any suggestions for how much each of individual spices to use or how much pumpkin pie spice to use in order to achieve a similar taste as if using a spice cake mix. will appreciate your help with this.