Pumpkin Muffins with Crumb Cake Topping
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Dive into fall with delicious pumpkin muffins with crumb cake topping! It’ll make your heart feel happy and festive! After the hot summer months it’s time to embrace the cooler weather. This pumpkin muffin recipe will bring the warm scents of autumn into your kitchen, and highlight the joy of the season.
Ingredients for Pumpkin Muffins
A few simple ingredients are all that’s needed to make this pumpkin muffin recipe!
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Pumpkin pie spice
- Ground cinnamon
- Sea salt
- Light-brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Vegetable oil
- Large eggs
- Milk
- Pure vanilla extract
- Canned pumpkin puree
Ingredients for Crumb Cake Topping
It’s easy to make a scrumptious crumb cake topping! Here’s what you’ll need:
- All-purpose flour
- Brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Pumpkin pie spice
- Ground cinnamon
- Melted butter
Ingredients for Vanilla Glaze
Only three ingredients are needed to make a yummy vanilla glaze!
- Powdered sugar
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Whole milk or low fat milk
How to Make Pumpkin Muffins
It’s quick and easy to whip up a batch of bakery-style pumpkin muffins from scratch. They’re light and tender with a beautiful crumb!
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda and spices.
- In a separate bowl, add the sugar, oil, eggs, milk, vanilla and pumpkin.
- Whisk until combined.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix until incorporated.
- Spoon the mixture into muffin pans lined with cupcake wrappers.
Pumpkin Muffin Recipe Step by Step
Adding a flaky crumb-cake topping to these fabulous pumpkin muffins makes this delicious fall recipe extra special! Here’s how to do it:
- In a small mixing bowl, prepare the crumb cake topping.
- Spoon the crumb mixture over each pumpkin muffin.
- Lightly press the crumb topping into the batter so it’s nice and secure.
- Bake these easy pumpkin muffins at 375 degrees until done.
Pumpkin Spice Muffins
These pumpkin spice muffins are best enjoyed the same day they’re made!
How to Keep Muffins Fresh
Here’s how to store muffins and keep them fresh:
- Place completely-cooled muffins in an air-tight container or zip-top bag.
- Muffins kept on the countertop in a cool environment can stay fresh for 3 days.
- In hot or humid environments, store muffins in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
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ESSENTIAL MUFFIN RECIPES
These bakery-style LEMON BLUEBERRY MUFFINS are tender and delicious with an excellent crumb! This is an excellent recipe to share at work, church functions, and potlucks. They’re perfect for breakfast, brunch, and a mid-day snack.
Pumpkin Muffins with Crumb Topping
- Total Time: 35
- Yield: 15 Muffins 1x
Description
Welcome the fall season with this scrumptious pumpkin muffin recipe. We take things one step further by giving each pumpkin spice muffin a beautiful crumb topping and a light drizzling of delicious vanilla glaze. Yum!
Ingredients
PUMPKIN MUFFINS
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 3/4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 3/4 cup light-brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree
CRUMB CAKE TOPPING
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
VANILLA GLAZE
- 1 + 1/2 cups powdered sugar (confectioners sugar)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon milk
Instructions
- Line a 12-well muffin pan with cupcake liners. Line a second muffin pan with 3 cupcake liners. Adjust your oven rack to the middle position. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the flour, baking soda, spices, and salt. Mix briefly until combined.
- Add in brown sugar, granulated sugar, eggs, vanilla, vegetable oil, milk, and pumpkin puree. Mix until all ingredients are fully incorporated. Do not over-mix the batter!
- Evenly divide the mixture between the 15 muffin cups.
- Prepare the crumb cake topping: mix all three ingredients with a spoon or fork, roughly chopping up the mixture into crumbly chunks. Spoon the crumb mixture on top of the muffins. Secure the pieces by lightly pressing them into the batter.
- Bake for 17-20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle of two separate pumpkin muffins comes out clean with no crumbs. Allow the muffins to stay in the pans until completely cooled.
- Prepare the vanilla glaze: With a spoon, mix the powdered sugar, vanilla and milk together until fully combined. If the glaze needs to be thinned out a bit, add additional milk 1/4 teaspoon at a time. With the back of a spoon, drizzle the icing over the pumpkin spice muffins in a zig-zag pattern.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 20
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: Muffins
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Do you love making or eating pumpkin spice muffins? What do you think about this scrumptious recipe for pumpkin muffins? Join the conversation! I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
Mmm, these look delicious! I love anything pumpkin, I think I will make these next weekend. Thanks for this, bookmarking.
It’s funny when I was younger I didn’t like anything pumpkin. Now I’m obsessed. It just tastes so good. Can’t wait to whip up a batch of these muffins to go with my Pumpkin Chai Latte.
This recipe looks delicious! I love all things pumpkin, and that vanilla glaze is just the perfect addition. I can’t wait to make (and eat) these!
I’m not a big fan of fall but I do LOVE all things pumpkin. These look delicious. I need to try them this year.
This is so perfect for upcoming fun season. Love the crunch top part of a muffin and it’s super easy to bake
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I’m drooling now. I’ve been holding off on making pumpkin stuff, but I think it’s time. I love a good crumb topping and yours looks perfect!
These get me so excited for Fall! I love anything pumpkin!
These muffins look so delicious! I would love to try making these sometime.
Stop making me hungry, these look super yummy. Perfect for the autumn period along with a hot warming drink x
Wow this pumpkin muffin recipe looks so good. Love the vanilla glaze! Your pics are so beautiful, Denay!
These look like they would be so good. Pumpkin muffins are one of my absolutely favorites!
Okay these look even better than the pumpkin muffins I get from my local coffee house! I love the addition of the crumb top, everything about this looks scrumptious!
These look absolutely delicious! We have leftover pumpkin, I’m going to have my daughter bake these up this afternoon.
They look fantastic! After the hot summer I am so ready to try new fresh recipes and to welcome fall as well! I would love to try the lemon blueberry muffins also.
These muffins are perfect for our family! I love crumble cake and my loves muffins! Crumble cake muffins is such a great idea!
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Total gorgeousness, and perfect for fall!! I love anything pumpkin, but that topping sends it over the edge of yum!
Pumpkin season is here and these will totally tick the box.
Looks so yummy and the photos are beautiful! Makes me want one right now!
I am not very cook when it comes to desserts. I love muffins and usually my husband bakes it for me. Will share the recipe with him. May be this weekend can be muffin weekend :)
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Those look so amazing! I love just about anything pumpkin. Perfect time to bring out the great pumpkin recipes too. I can’t wait to give this one a try.
I really need to the weather to catch up and for it to cool off so we can actually do some fall baking. I am so ready!
What an awesome dessert recipe! Pumpkin flavor has got to be my favorite of all time.
These look so yummy! I love anything with a crumble top like this! I think it adds a great layer of texture!
Oh these sound so wonderful. Pumpkin in this season taste so much nicer than the rest of the year…. my kids say so… A bit of pumpkin spice in there and I’m in heaven. Can’t wait to try this.
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Wow, these look so festive and really delicious. I think I’ll make some for Halloween!
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First of all, WOW, these sound amazing! Secondly, how do you make them look so pretty AND delicious?? :)
Kasey Ma
Your pumpkin muffins sounds wonderful and they look so pretty! I am so ready for Fall recipes and this recipe epitomizes all the flavors of the season. I’m making up a batch to enjoy and share with my grandsons.
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Muffins are my kids favorite breakfast treats. When pumpkin is in season, almost in the air, we are getting more excited to try new things!
I think my favorite part to this recipe is that oh-so sweet-looking topping! All sorts of deliciousness right there.
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These are very similar to muffins I made the other day, and I honestly think they were one of the best muffins I have ever had! I am sure yours are just as awesome, and I wish I had one right now. I am also going to check out your lemon blueberry muffins, because YUM!
OMG, these muffins look so delicious. I love the crumble topping.
The crumbs on top of those muffins looks terrific, I’m sure the muffins are great but you’d never get me past the crumbs, I’d eat every one of them.
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Lol. I totally agree with you.
I love crumb toppings on muffins, I usually make banana ones and a cinnamon/sugar crumb. This one looks delicious!
I hope they turn out so good for you. They are perfect.
These look soooo good! And I think I’ve got everything on hand to make them except pumpkin. This is SO happening.
I hope they turn out so good for you. They are perfect.
These look delicious, I cannot resist a good streusel crumb topping. They look more like a decadent dessert than a healthy breakfast muffin!
Thats what I love so much about them. healthy and delicious.
Oh my! you have the one of the best pumpkin muffin recipes out there! If only i could reach for one through your site. Perfect for the fall season!
Lol! I wish you could reach through the screen. that would be amazing.
Those look so delicious!! And perfect for the start of this Fall weather :)
They are the absolute perfect treat for fall.
All the pumpkin recipes are coming out before summer is over and I am not complaining. These look sooo yummy!
If I could I would eat pumpkin year round. Lol. It’s so good.
Bring me all the pumpkins muffins and pumpkin everything :) I love that you included tips and step by step on how to make these beautiful muffins. Look incredible with a cup of coffee!!
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Thank you so much. I love giving out yummy recipes.
YUM The crumb cake topping sounds amazing!!
Hi Megan! The crumb-cake topping on these yummy pumpkin muffins is just as scrumptious as it looks! I hope you’ll make this recipe soon. You’re going to fall in love with these muffins!
These look so, so good! Even though it’s still hot here, I’ve been craving fall flavors so badly. I know what I’m getting ingredients for during my next grocery store run… <3
Hi Raine! I encourage you to bake up a batch of these scrumptious pumpkin muffins. You’ll be so happy you did!
I can’t wait to make these they look delicious!! Jaiden will be my 1st taste tester…
Ann, you and Jaiden are going to love these Pumpkin Muffins! They’re super simple to make and absolutely scrumptious. Thanks so much for leaving a comment. I really appreciate your kindness! :-)
Oh my, muffins looks absolutely delicious! The crumb cake topping takes this muffins to a whole new level. Blown away with your gorgeous photos.
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Thank you so much Jo! I really appreciate your sweet comment about these yummy pumpkin muffins! Many wishes for a great weekend.
What a pretty muffin top and by looking at them I bet they taste as good as they look. I wished my family liked pumpkin I would make these in a heartbeat!
Hi Claudia! I say you just bake up a batch of these yummy pumpkin muffins all for yourself! I have a sneaky feeling that your family will end up trying them and falling in love with this fall recipe.
I have everything except the pumpkin purée. My boys have been asking to get pumpkins since they started stocking them a few weeks ago at the grocery store. We do “big breakfast Sunday” and I think this would be perfect for this weekend!
Oooo…Yes, these pumpkin muffins will be perfect for Sunday brunch! Stephanie, I hope you’ll bake up a beautiful batch of these this weekend. :-)
Ooh, these look absolutely delicious – I could just eat one right now with my tea! I need to give this recipe a go…
Hello Kate! These pumpkin muffins will go great with tea. I hope you’ll bake up a batch this weekend!
DENAY!!! YOU HAVE ME DROOLING HARD CORE RIGHT NOW! HARD CORE!! And I got 1/2 a can of pumpkin open in the fridge right now, heheheheh! You know what THIS means?!
Hahahaa… Gigi, you are just to sweet! I’m loving that you’re enjoying this scrumptious recipe for pumpkin muffins!