{"id":6324,"date":"2010-10-22T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosemaryandthegoat.com\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2019-10-19T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T19:50:08","slug":"chocolate-pumpkin-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosemaryandthegoat.com\/?p=6324","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

A can of pumpkin met a bag of chocolate chips and fell in love.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I love seeing pumpkins growing in a field and it always reminds me of school field trips with my kids when they were in kindergarten and everyone got to pick out a pumpkin to take home for carving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pumpkin pie has never been one of my favorite fall desserts. Seems like I always make one at Thanksgiving and 3\/4 of the pie is still left by the time we are throwing out left overs. I do love pumpkin bread and pumpkin bread pudding with caramel sauce and when I found this recipe for the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins years ago, my initial thoughts were that chocolate and pumpkin was a weird combination. But, I was wrong, and found out they are delicious together.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you will pick up a pumpkin or even a can of pumpkin and do something exciting with it this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another strange pumpkin recipe I ran across years ago from a little restaurant in Mendocina, CA is a Pumpkin Tomato Soup<\/a>. If you love tomato soup, you will really enjoy this version that has pumpkin added. The pumpkin adds a little sweetness and cuts some of the acidity of the tomatoes. Topped with some creme fraiche and it is a great little soup to have in the fall. If you decide to try the soup, don’t make the mistake I did once and buy pumpkin PIE FILLING instead of canned pumpkin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back to the muffins. They freeze beautifully, so you can make these before thanksgiving and have them ready when your company comes for the holidays. A few seconds in the microwave and you have melting chocolate chips and pumpkin ready to be devoured by your guests.<\/span><\/p>\n


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How could these ingredients not be good — pumpkin, sugar, butter, chocolate!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Add all the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Feel free to add more chocolate chips. I did.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bake in paper muffin cups or use the decorative ones like I picked up at Sur la Table. The recipe calls to spray the pans with non stick spray and baking without papers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I love using these little papers. Crumb cakes work very well in these also.<\/span><\/p>\n

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