Prep Time::20 mins
Cook Time::20 mins
Total Time::40 mins
Servings::12
Yield::12 big muffins
Ingredients
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1 tablespoon clarified butter (ghee)
1 ¾ cups pumpkin guts
1 ½ cups brown sugar
½ cup butter, cubed and at room temperature
3 eggs
4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin with ghee.
Separate the seeds from the stringy pumpkin guts. Place guts into a blender or food processor; pulse until pureed.
Mix brown sugar and butter together in a bowl until combined. Add pumpkin puree and eggs; whisk until well blended.
Sift 3 cups flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a bowl. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and stir until absorbed. Add as much of the remaining 1 cup flour as needed to create a batter that is moist but thick enough to stand a spoon in. Stir in chocolate chips.
Divide batter evenly between the 12 muffin cups.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick poked into the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
Cook’s Note
By pumpkin guts, I literally mean the stringy, gooey stuff that normally gets thrown away. I process mine using my older Ninja blender. I find that about 4 cups of guts will process down to about 2 cups.
A great variation is to use 1 cup chopped walnuts plus 1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries instead of the 2 cups chocolate chips.