Pumpkin Spice Muffins taste like Dunkin Donuts pumpkin spice seasonal muffin. Pumpkin Spice Muffins are moist and delicate in texture and stay fresh for days.
These pumpkin spice muffins are a favorite for the fall. So easy to make, these flavorful pumpkin spiced donuts are perfect for pumpkin spice lovers.
Ingredients in pumpkin spice muffins
This recipe is made with a box of spice cake mix, flour, eggs, pumpkin pie filling, and more. The canned pumpkin pie filling isn’t the same thing has pumpkin puree. Canned pumpkin pie filling is a pumpkin blend of pumpkin, seasonings, and more. So this is going to add a lot to the flavor of this recipe.
Special notes about this recipe
Pumpkin is very dense, I find it helpful to make sure I beat this with a mixer for a full 2 minutes. This way air is whipped into the cake mix, and it helps make what could be super dense into something much lighter.
Potential Variations
You may want to omit the brown sugar on the top if you are trying to cut back on the sugar, it isn’t super necessary. I have sprinkled cinnamon sugar on top before. You may even want to top these with cream cheese frosting.
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Pumpkin Spice Muffins
Ingredients
- 15.25 spice cake mix 1 box
- 30 ounces Pumpkin Pie Mix puree of pumpkin with spice)
- 3.4 ounces instant vanilla pudding
- 2 eggs slightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
- 1 tablespoon sour cream
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a bowl combine cake mix, pumpkin, pudding and vanilla. Add sour cream, eggs, oil, spice, and mix well. Once combined scoop one large scoop(pampered chef large scoop)into lined cupcake cups.
- Sprinkle each one with brown sugar and place on stone, or cookie sheet. bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 30 min or until toothpick comes out clean.
Heather says
Such a fun recipe and treat!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Had me at pumpkin! These muffins look AMAZING!
Lori @ RecipeGirl says
Ohhhh, I love these!
Toni | Boulder Locavore says
These look perfect! Can’t wait to give this a try!
Jennifer Farley says
These are perfect for breakfast!
Joanne says
Really good flavor with these muffins, and lovely texture too!
Liz says
SO easy and absolutely delicious!
Melissa Sperka says
I love these Fall favorites!
ADS says
This is always a big favorite in our house.
Karen D. says
Well, Miss Stephanie, you nailed it!
They smell and look divine.
The only thing that I did differently was add 2 teaspoons of baking powder. I’ve made them so many times over the years and that’s the only thing I do differently. Mind you, I don’t use the sam pumpkin pie mix so that probably has something to do with it.
Keep up the awesome work.
Your Canadian friend ….
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Stephanie says
I am so glad you enjoy these muffins!
kim thompson says
dissapointed because the smell was amazing..i used the baking soda as mentioned and they still did not raise and i cooked them for 40 minutes and still gooey inside…i think it must be something i did wrong i just don’t know what..i will try it again at another time though
maureenrose says
Where can I find pumpkin spice cake? What brand is this? 🙂
Stephanie says
It’s a spice cake mix, and you using a can of pumpkin pie filling.
Sam says
I could not find pumpkin mix with spice anywhere… will regular pumkin pie filling work? thats the same thing right?
Stephanie Manley says
These would be the larger cans. Maybe as it gets closer to Thanksgiving it will work. If the can says pumpkin pie filling it should work, if the can says pure pumpkin, that won’t work right.
barb j says
Walmart usually has the Pumkin Pie Mix , large can with almost enough spices
barb j says
just add more pumpkin pie spice mix
Stephanie says
Canned pumpkin is generally sold in two variations. One is pumpkin puree, and the other is pumpkin pie filling. This recipe is for the pumpkin pie filling. I hope this helps.
Danielle says
Skipped the sour cream and used half the amount of said pumpkin. DE-LISH!!!!! Perfection. My son ate 5 today!
Tracey says
Just made this muffin with the addition of the baking powder and WOW!!!! These are soooo good!!!