This week’s recipe hails from Celebrating Quick Breads and Pastries, a great book filled with lovely recipes for muffins, quick breads, biscuits and pastries of course. If you’re new to baking and are looking for easy recipes with great kitchen tips then this one is for you.
The original recipe is a simple orange pumpkin muffin. While the plan is to keep it just as easy, my version has a few more steps. The final result turned out to be great, so it’s worth it! I added a dash of cinnamon in the batter, omitted the walnuts completely and added a white chocolate ginger streusel topping.
A simple spiced pumpkin muffin with the zing of orange and the sweet white chocolate and ginger streusel perfectly rolls the flavors of fall into this delicious muffin.
- 13/4 cups flour
- 11/2 tsp pumpkin spice
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cups sugar
- ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- ⅓ cup orange juice
- 1 tsp grated orange zest
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ¼ cup flour
- ¾ tsp ginger
- 4 tablespoons butter, chilled
- ½ cup white chocolate
- Preheat oven to 350F and grease or line a 12 hole muffin pan with liners.
- In a small bowl, combine sugar, flour, and ginger. Cut in butter. Once it resembles a coarse mixture and add white chocolate. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In a large bowl, combine brown sugar, sugar, eggs, and oil.
- Stir in the pumpkin, orange juice, and orange zest to sugar mixture and beat until well blended.
- Gradually add the flour mixture until just combined.
- Fill the muffin cups about ⅔ full.
- Generously sprinkle the streusel on top of each muffin.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, rotating halfway through.
- Transfer to a wire rack and let cool before serving.
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Happy Baking!
I find that you can never go wrong by adding a streusel to anything. Lovely muffins!
I absolutely love the adaption to this week’s muffin! I need to try that ginger-white-chocolate streusel – it sounds AMAZING!
This combination of flavors is so intriguing. I can’t wait to try them out.
Wow! White chocolate and ginger! What a great combination to top for the orange and pumpkin muffin. Bet these were just bursting with flavor!
What an exciting suggestion. I’m curious about the result of all those ingredients together, especially the ginger with the orange, white chocolate and pumpkin spice.
Yummy!
An, these look so good. I love your changes to the muffin and the addition of the streusel. Streuesl gives baked goods that extra special something. Happy #MuffinMonday!
I’m just so happy that its fall! Maybe not in Cayman but in the rest of the Northern Hemisphere :) Bring on the delicious pumpkin recipes! And these are brilliant cause they’re like a season mash up…orange and pumpkin. Pretty much genius!
These look wonderful! Love your photos!
Love the ginger and orange zest added inside. Must have been flavourful with an amazing smell.
pumpkin recipes are haunting me…have never really baked with them.. everywhere I go.. I read one… i like the sound of orange in these muffins.. but its ginger white chocolate streusel thats getting my attention more!!!
I love the combination of orange and pumpkin – sounds awesome together! Adding the crunchy streusel completes the muffins perfectly!
Oooh! Streusel is the perfect topping for this–ginger even better! I love it!
Looks absolutely delicious! I just baked a pumpkin cinnamon pull apart bread! Yummy!
YUMMO! I am sooo loving that streussel!!
I like the sound of white chocolate in the streusel.
I love pumpkin so these are right up my alley :-)
I think I can taste these muffins right now. They sound incredible. Perfect for the 1st week of fall!!
What a lovely muffin, and perfect for Fall! I love your flavor combination, and love the original flavor too. I never thought to mix orange and pumpkin, I need to try it sometime:-) Hugs, Terra
These muffins have so much going for them!!! Now all I need is one (or two) and a cup of coffee and I’ll be set ;)
I am dreaming now =P Very tempting muffin with pumpkin and orange.
That plump streusel topped beauty is calling my name, An!
Mmm orange and pumpkin sounds like a favourite combination :D
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
pumpkin and orange together? Genius! I can see how it would just be an amazing burst of flavors. They look so delicious and the idea of having the streusel on top is killing me. I am hungry!
I am loving all the pumpkin! Love muffin Mondays!
Sounds delish and I really like the idea of orange with the pumpkin. Nice combination. Always amazing.
I love all the ingredients in these muffins. It’s the right season (for me) for baking as it’s getting cooler here in Maryland. Great recipe!
Seriously need one right now. With a pumpkin latte. Right now.
I can always count on a delectable muffin from you on Monday! I love the pumpkin-orange combo…and you worked my favorite white chocolate into this winner, too :)
Let’s take a moment to examine all the different words in this post that make me happy: orange…pumpkin…white chocolate… Yup, I’d say we have a winner. :)
Let the fall flavors of pumpkin commence!! I want a muffin now. :)
That ginger white chocolate topping sounds insanely good! Wow! Love these muffins.
that white chocolate ginger streusel has me SOLD! I love ginger. And white chocolate! White Chocolate pairs so wonderfully with pumpkin. :)
Lovely muffins!! The orange and pumpkin sounds amazing and I would love to try the white chocolate muffins with ginger streusel. What flavours!!
Such a great flavors welcoming Autumn. Lovely muffin I would love to have with coffee this morning. How have you been An?
Yes-I love every thing about these muffins. Streusel will win me over every time. Delightful muffins for Muffin Monday:)
So, easy even a non baker like me can try it. This is why I love hanging out your site. You have all the baking recipes that fit all levels of skills. Thank you! :)
I love that you added cinnamon here! You just cannot make a pumpkin baked good without it, in my opinion. And the streusel – Mmmmm!
The combination of orange and pumpkin sounds great! Then what can I say about your streusel topping except – YUM!!!!! Love you pictures of these cute muffins!
These are so flavored packed. I bet the pumpkin and ginger combination is fantastic!
Oh these are just wonderful! I love love love pumpkin muffins….plain and simple. But that white chocolate and ginger streusel is such an amazing addition to these muffins. Your photos are so beautiful and inviting! : )
Orange and pumpkin are wonderful together. That white chocolate streusel topping sounds amazing.
LOVE the flavor combo in this muffins! And streusel are legit frosting. In fact, even tastier than any frosting ;)
Really like the pictures! But I’m a sucker for anything on a dark background. Like the recipe, too – a lot. That streusel sounds wonderful. Good stuff – thanks for this.
White chocolate ginger streusel sounds too good to be true! Love!
Oh wow….these muffins do look fabulous! I am loving all the fall flavors in these babies. I can’t wait to give them a try! :)
What a gorgeous flavor combo!
I’m late here (again!), but still enjoying your muffin posts! Orange pumpkin – hm that sound delicious but I like your ginger & white choco streusel… wow that’s something new and I’d love to taste it!