Pumpkin Zucchini Muffins

Another pumpkin recipe!!  Tis the season!  I was looking for a way to use of some of the abundance of zucchini that I have and this recipe fit the bill.  It not only used some zucchini, it also used my favorite fall ingredient - pumpkin!

These muffins came together quickly, freeze well and taste amazing.  They are very moist but not soggy.  The spices are just right and taste great with a cup of coffee.

Photo by me.

Pumpkin Zucchini Muffins
(adapted from Six Sister's Stuff)

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup pumpkin
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 3 cups flour (I used white whole wheat)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 cups shredded zucchini
• 1 cup walnuts or pepitas

*Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line or grease muffin tin.
*Combine eggs and sugar.  Add pumpkin, butter, and vanilla.
*Combine dry ingredients in a second bowl.
*Gradually add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
*Stir in zucchini and nuts/pepitas.
*Spoon into muffin tin until almost full.
*Bake for 20 - 25 minutes.

Enjoy!
-C :)

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins (Cupcakes)

These are likely my all time favorite muffin recipe.  They are super moist, super chocolatey and super good.  Lately I have been taking one to work, popping it in the microwave to make it all warm and gooey and enjoying it during my coffee break at work.  That means that in the last 9 days I have eaten 9 muffins, no wonder my scrub pants are getting tight!  (That also means in the last 9 days I have worked 9 shifts in a row.  I kind of think I deserved the muffins!)

This recipe comes from a cookbook created by the church I grew up in.  I love cookbooks like that.  You know everyone who put the recipes in and can pretty much guarantee that the recipes will be good (as long as you make the ones put in by the good cooks)!

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

• 2 1/2 cups flour (I use 1 1/2 cups white, 1 cup whole wheat)
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 3/4 cup oil
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups grated zucchini (fresh or frozen)

1.  Combine all the dry ingredients including the chocolate chips and nuts.
2.  Mix wet ingredients together.  Combine with dry ingredients.
3.  Stir in zucchini.
4.  Place in 350 degree oven for 15-20 minutes.

I hope that you enjoy these as much as I do.  If there is one recipe that I have made over and over, it would be this one!  Mom always gives me big overgrown zucchini so that I can grate it up and freeze it for the winter.

Enjoy!
- Carla :)