This recipe calls for canned pumpkin, which counts as a vegetable, right?

We’re a sucker forpumpkin-flavored things, especially when they’re moist, tender, and cake-like.

This recipe invites you to choose your own adventure.

Pumpkin muffin ingredients on a table

Photography: Carson Downing, Food: Kelsey Moylan, Props: Joseph Wanek, Prop and Drop: Lexi Juhl

Serve these muffins warm with a pat of butter, cream cheese, or almond butter.

Lightly coat a standard 12-cup muffin tin with nonstick spray or line with paper liners.

Mix all ingredients:

Add flour mixture to wet mixture and mix until evenly incorporated.

Flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and nutmeg in a bowl for a pumpkin muffin recipe

Photography: Carson Downing, Food: Kelsey Moylan, Props: Joseph Wanek, Prop and Drop: Lexi Juhl

Add batter to muffin cups and bake:

Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.

Serve:

Serve the muffins warm or at room temperature.

To do so, wait for the muffins to cool completely, and wrap them individually in plastic wrap.

Pumpkin muffin ingredients in a bowl being mixed

Photography: Carson Downing, Food: Kelsey Moylan, Props: Joseph Wanek, Prop and Drop: Lexi Juhl

Then, place the muffins in a freezer-safe storage container.

Pumpkin muffins will stay fresh in the freezer for approximately two months.

Thaw frozen pumpkin muffins at room temperature, or microwave them in 5-second increments until warmed through.

Pumpkin muffin ingredients mixed in a bowl

Photography: Carson Downing, Food: Kelsey Moylan, Props: Joseph Wanek, Prop and Drop: Lexi Juhl

While canned pumpkin pie mix and canned pumpkin puree are similar, they are not the same.

For this recipe, use canned pumpkin puree.

Pumpkin muffins being spooned into a muffin tin

Photography: Carson Downing, Food: Kelsey Moylan, Props: Joseph Wanek, Prop and Drop: Lexi Juhl

Pumpkin muffins

Photography: Carson Downing, Food: Kelsey Moylan, Props: Joseph Wanek, Prop and Drop: Lexi Juhl