You won’t miss the flour, oil, or sugar in these flourless pumpkin pie muffins! Loaded with pumpkin, chocolate, and warming spices, they make the perfect fall treat!
“These muffins are dangerous.” <– Mum’s words, not mine; although I can definitely back her up on that claim. These muffins are dangerous. They strike like ninjas and before you know what hit ya… they’ve vanished.
Seriously. I could’ve sworn I made an entire batch just yesterday, and now it’s nowhere to be found. Poof. Gone. But before you start calling me a glutton and nailing me with your accusatory glances, I’ll have you know that I wasn’t working alone. No ma’am (or sir). The entire Spoons family was in on it. I brought the whole batch (minus one muffin which obviously needed to be taste tested first) with me for dinner on Sunday, and it pains me to say that not a single muffin survived the night. Not even one measly crumb.
I should probably take that as a compliment — it just means they were freaking amazing. And I know this because I was obsessively gauging reactions.
I like to think that I’ve gotten a little more subtle and sneaky over the years, but I’m one of those people that will watch you take your first bite like.a.hawk just so I can capture the exact moment when your brain registers what you think of my baked treats… especially because some people just don’t say anything.
Men, I’ve found, are particularly bad for that.
“So… how did you like it?”
“What? Oh. It was great! Like always.” *grabs another and walks away*
Pft. Like always. Like I’m just supposed to assume it was great. Actually, I usually do. I’ve been at this long enough to have built up a pretty decent amount of confidence when it comes to my baking, but I still like the extra reinforcement! Especially when I’m trying to make things healthier without seeming like they’re healthier — ya know? Take these muffins, for example…
There’s no flour, no oil, and no refined sugar, but you’d never guess it since they’re just as moist, just as sweet sweet, and just as doughy as traditional muffins. That being said, they’re not exactly like traditional muffins. The texture is slightly denser, which is why I called them pumpkin pie muffins — they fall somewhere in between. Still doughy, but a melt-in-your-mouth kind of doughy. And have I mentioned that you can whip them up in your blender in under 5 minutes flat? And that they make your house smell amazing? And that the combination of chocolate and pumpkin is to.die.for? You need to make these yesterday. I did, and they didn’t even last 24 hours…
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Flourless Pumpkin Pie Muffins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 9 muffins 1x
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup (64 g) almond butter*
- 3/4 cup (180 g) canned pumpkin
- 1 large egg
- 6 Tbsp (120 g) honey
- 1/2 cup (40 g) rolled oats (GF, if needed)
- 2 Tbsp (14g) ground flaxseed
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips, plus more for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375F (190C) and prepare a muffin pan by spraying 9 cavities with cooking spray or lining them with parchment liners. Set aside.
- Add all the ingredients except for the chocolate chips to a high-powered blender** and blend on high until the oats have broken down and the batter is smooth and creamy. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand.
- Distribute the batter evenly among the muffin pan cavities, filling each on until it is about 3/4 full.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes, until the tops of your muffins are set and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool in the pan for ~10 minutes before removing. Store them in an air-tight container for up to 5 days, or freeze them for up to 3 months.
Notes
* Feel free to sub in with another nut butter if you prefer. Or use a soy nut butter to make these nut-free. ** If you don’t have access to a high-powered blender, you can simply grind the oats into a flour and mix everything together by hand.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
Looking for more pumpkin recipes? Try one of these!
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Mug Cake
Vegan Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Oatmeal Bars
Flourless Pumpkin Brownies
One Bowl Greek Yogurt Pumpkin Bread
This looks amazing! Love the choc chips especially! Wondering if one could replace the oats with cocunut flour and add extra eggs for extra moisture it would need then? If so could I replace with the same amount of flour and how many eggs? Can’t wait to try!
Hi Hester! If you were going to replace the oats with coconut flour, you would probably need something like 3 or 4 eggs, and you might even need to add some milk since coconut flour is super absorbent. This is just a guess, though, since i Haven’t tried it myself and can’t vouch for the results!
I am a pumpkin fan! It’s the best thing about fall aside from pretty scarves and boots haha.
I haven’t done any fall baking just yet but, I have enjoyed a few slices (really just 2 slices) of pumpkin bread a few weeks ago–I saw them at a local coffee shop/bakery and I just couldn’t resist. But as much as I enjoy pumpkin bread (or pumpkin anything really), I just can’t bring myself to buying a pumpkin spice latte right now. I’m in GA–it’s still hot! Don’t know how other people down here bring themselves to drinking them just yet. I’ll wait until end of September/ beginning of October to enjoy those 🙂
I’m a HUGE fan of pumpkin! It’s what I love about the Fall.
These recipes look AMAZING! Can’t wait to try the pumpkin pie muffins and the Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Oatmeal bars–yum! But will have to wait 3 more days til my Hunger Challenge for Hunger Action Month is over. Won’t fit into my food $ budget…sigh.
YAY! Great minds think alike – I love that we both had flourless pumpkin muffins but still such different ingredients – now I’m dying to try your version! This weekend for sure 🙂 Pinned!!
YUMMMY. making these asap for sure. love pumpkin spice. yay fall flavors !!
So these inspired me to whip up my own pumpkin muffin creation! I will let ya know how they taste and of course link back to this inspiring post when I get around to posting the recipe! 🙂
Don’t ya just love dude feedback? It’s so hard for me to tell if Dave likes the food, is tolerating the food, or just doesn’t want to hurt my feelings. It also doesn’t help that the only thing he requests is plain chocolate chip cookies..where’s the creativity in that?? 😉
😆 Right? My family is always asking me to remake past recipes, and I’m like… But I have too many other things to experiment with to waste time on old recipes! Blogger problems… I tell ya.
As soon as I saw this recipe I knew I had to ACTUALLY make them instead of bookmarking it for a later date. I whipped these up this morning in no time flat, but for some reason the baking time had to be almost tripled! I think it was closing in on about 30 mins before I was able to actually take them out of the oven without the toothpick coming out with lots of batter on it. Anyways, once they were done and cooled off, these were actually delicious! All I need right now is a warm glass of apple cider or perhaps a guilt-ridden pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks 😉 Thanks for the autumn inspiration!
These look soooo yummy (as always)! I was just thinking about opening a can of pumpkin puree soon… plus these are so healthy, they are a great snack!!! Yay!
PUMPKIN! Tis the season, I suppose. I’m stopping by from the Meatless Monday linkup. Can’t wait to make these!
Looks incredible! Can’t wait to try this one!
I am a PUMPKIN FANATIC, except, I LOVE IT year round, and on almost anything, even my meat…I know I am strange 🙂 So I LOVE FALL cause everyone else umps on the bandwagon with me!
you had me at doughy! YUM! so what muffin pan do you use? they are so cute and round!
Loved the teaser then, love the teaser now.
I actually didn’t even embrace pumpkin here during our ‘fall’ time- This must mean deep down I really am meant to live in the northern hemisphere.
Sounds like a good sign to me! You really should look into that 😛
They look like those brownie bites but pumpkin flavored – tasty!
The fall pumpkin obsession drives me nuts! I will eat (or drink) anything pumpkin flavoured. These look absolutely amazing… I’m going to have to try it when I get access to a kitchen again
These pumpkin pie muffins do look delicious! Love that the recipe is flourless, I must try it!
I found this batter really thick. It totally clogged my Vitamix. Results were good but I would add 1/4 tsp of cloves instead of a half. I’ll probably change the order in which I add the ingredients next time!
I LOVE it and I’m ready for fall! Bring it on! I haven’t done any baking yet though. I better stock up on pumpkin and get on it! I did make pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes yesterday though.
I had pumpkin noosa yogurt this weekend (have you had it?? it’s AMAZING. like, pumpkin pie cheesecake yogurt all in one) and admitted in my last post that I’m on the pumpkin bandwagon already. I have to make these. Like, now!
That -does- sound amazing! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it around here though!
These muffins look wonderful! Can’t wait to make them. I cannot eat flax seed. Is there anything you would suggest to replace it or simply leave it out of the recipe? Thanks for sharing!
Can you eat chia seeds? You could sub those in!
Ooh- I agree with your mom – these ARE dangerous! But the fat that they have no flour, no butter, no refined sugar are reasons to eat ’em all!!!
Thanks for sharing this!
Mmmm pumpkin. I’m definitely a fan! I’m still holding out on baking with pumpkin though… I want to enjoy the last of the summer produce at the market first! You can be sure I’ll be baking these in a few weeks though. 😉
Seriously yum! Can’t wait to make those muffins-already pinned. Thanks for linking up with us today. Hope you will visit some of the other recipes too and your hostesses. Hope to see you next week with another great recipe! Love the blog name too-cute
So about that last comment I left about pumpkin being the devil. Oops. My bad.
Maybe you should send me one of these so we can test the theory.
Consider these MADE! I already know a flax egg subs perfectly, so I am all over this!
Holy.
I feel like I can smell these through my computer screen.
I am definitely a fan of pumpkin things but I don’t like straight up pumpkin pie very much! Is that weird?
Sounds totally normal to me! I’m not a fan of pumpkin pie either — it’s a texture thing.
You’ve done it again, you’ve made me drool. These would be yummy for breakfast. Hmmm.
mm looks good. I like more dense moist muffins so these are up my alley! Could you sub baked sweet potatoes instead of pumpkin? I’m more of a sweet potato or butternut squash person.
Of course! These would be amazing with sweet potato as well. You could probably even cut down on the honey by a tablespoon or two since SP is a bit sweeter than pumpkin.
Anything “pumpkin pie” related is totally my kind of thing. These would make an AWESOME evening dessert topped with maple AB!
Yayy!! Just looking at this pumpkin deliciousness makes me happy! I love that these are flourless. Confession- I just had a piece of straight up gluten-full pumpkin bread, and i enjoyed every bite. (sorry primal diet, today you lose 🙂 )
I genuinely love your muffin recipes so you can bet I’ll be making these ASAP!
It doesn’t feel like pumpkin season down in Texas yet. I really, really wish it did. The weather was fabulous and felt like fall back in Wisconsin this past weekend…I’m going to pretend it feels like fall anyway and whip out some pumpkin in the kitchen!
You said mum again, that always makes me smile 🙂 I refuse to say MOM, even though I live here. These look great! Pumpkin is back in for the season, and I can’t wait to see more of these recipes. I got back to making my nut butter yesterday. Decided to add agave this time, but I think maple is winning for almond butter so far. Please linkup to Meatless Monday, people need to see this recipe 🙂
Mum just sounds a little more endearing <3 And I didn't think desserts really counted as being meatless! But I'd be happy to contribute 🙂
These muffins are all that is right in the world.
Now that it’s cooler, I’m really enjoying the pumpkin flavor. I couldn’t get into it because of how hot it was a few days ago.
Chocolate and pumpkin – love.
Almond Butter and honey – love.
All the four together?? Heaven!!!
Just roasted a huge acorn squash in the oven – getting ready for all things pumpkin!!
Yay for baking with pumpkin again!! These muffins look amazing. I love that they’re flourless, and the chocolate in there…yum. Pinned!
I’m not ready for pumpkin yet. BUT when I am… these are going to be at the top of my list of fall-themed treats to stuff my face with.
It’s snowing here today. 🙁
Here too! It actually -just- stopped, but it’s hovering around 0 right now.