Squash Muffins Recipes

BUTTERNUT SQUASH MUFFINS WITH A FROSTY TOP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line your muffin tins with paper cups.
• Whiz the squash in a food processor until finely chopped. Add the sugar, and crack in the eggs. Add a pinch of salt, the flour, baking powder, walnuts, cinnamon and olive oil and whiz together until well beaten. You may need to pause the machine at some point to scrape the mix down the sides with a rubber spatula. Try not to overdo it with the mixing - you want to just combine everything and no more.
• Fill the paper cups with the muffin mixture. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Check to see whether they are cooked properly by sticking a wooden skewer or a knife right into one of the muffins - if it comes out clean, they're done. If it's a bit sticky, pop them back into the oven for a little longer. Remove from the oven and leave the muffins to cool on a wire rack.
• As soon as the muffins are in the oven, make your runny frosted topping. Place most of the clementine zest, all the lemon zest and the lemon juice in a bowl. Add the sour cream, icing sugar and vanilla seeds and mix well. Taste and have a think about it - adjust the amount of lemon juice or icing sugar to balance the sweet and sour. Put into the fridge until your muffins have cooled down, then spoon the topping onto the muffins.
• Serve on a lovely plate (on a cake stand if you're feeling elegant, or on a rustic slab if you're more of a hunter-gatherer type!), with the rest of the clementine zest sprinkled over. For an interesting flavor and look, a few dried lavender flowers or rose petals are fantastic.

YELLOW SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Wash squash, trim ends, and cut into 1-inch slices.
• Cook in a small amount of water for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Drain well and mash.
• Measure 2 cups of the cooked squash, combine with eggs, butter, and applesauce, and set aside.
• Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl.
• Make a well in center of mixture.
• Add squash to dry ingredients, stirring only until moist.
• Spoon into greased muffin tins, filling 3/4 full.
• Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean.

YELLOW SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Place 1 in. of water in a saucepan; add squash. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until tender. Drain and mash; stir in the butter and egg. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir in the squash mixture just until moistened., Fill greased muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake 375° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

YELLOW SUMMER SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat Oven to 350 F.
• Lightly spray Muffin Pan with Cooking Spray.
• Combine the Flour, Baking Powder, Salt and Sugar in LARGE bowl.
• Make a hole in the center of the dry ingredients.
• In a separate bowl Mix the beaten egg, milk, oil and shredded Yellow Summer Squash.
• Pour the Squash mixture into the hole in the dry ingredients.
• Stir until just moistened.
• Spoon the batter into the lightly sprayed Muffin Pan filling the cups about two-thirds full.
• Bake for 20 - 25 minutes.
• Check if they are done by inserting a knife and seeing that it comes out clean.
• Cool the pan for ten minutes.
• Remove the Muffins.
• Enjoy !

ACORN SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease muffin tins, or line with paper cups. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large mixing bowl and toss to mix. Add eggs, mashed squash, butter and sugar and beat just until mixed; the batter should not be smooth. Spoon batter into prepared muffin pans, filling each cup almost to the top. Bake for about 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Remove from the oven and serve warm.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease muffin tin.
• Squeeze excess moisture from squash.
• In mixing bowl, combine oil, sugars and vanilla.
• Mix in eggs and squash.
• In separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
• Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. Mix until just combined.
• Fold in chocolate chips.
• Pour into greased muffin tin.
• Bake for 20 minutes.

SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, nutmeg and baking soda. In another bowl, combine the eggs, squash and oil. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened., Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve warm.

CHOCOLATE SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Combine squash, egg, oil and sugar in a bowl and mix well.
• Add cocoa powder, baking soda and flour and stir until just combined.
• Mix in chocolate chips.
• Spoon into greased or lined muffin tins and bake at 375 degrees F for 20-22 minutes.

SUMMER SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• MAKE THE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
• In a medium bowl, beat the softened cream cheese with the powdered sugar and 2 tsp. vanilla until light and fluffy. Spoon into a piping bag. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• MAKE THE MUFFINS
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt together and reserve.
• Mix the eggs, granulated sugar, grated squash, vegetable oil and remaining 2 tsp. vanilla until well combined. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and mix until incorporated. (Do not over mix.)
• Scoop the batter into 16 greased muffin pan cups, completely filling each cup.
• Bake on the middle rack 20 to 25 min. or until the muffins are golden brown and the tops of the muffins bounce back when you press on them. (Test with a bamboo skewer to make sure the centers of the muffins are done.)
• Cool the muffins for 5 min., then remove the muffins from the pan to a wire rack and let them cool another 20 min.
• Use an apple corer to remove the centers of the muffins; fill centers of muffins with the cream cheese frosting. Pipe a rosette onto the top of each muffin with the remaining cream cheese mixture. Reserve the removed muffin cores for snacking.

YELLOW SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners or grease with nonstick cooking spray.
• Place the sliced summer squash in a medium saucepan, add about three cups of water and heat on high until water comes to a boil.
• When water reaches a boil, reduce heat to medium and cover the pan. Simmer squash for 5 minutes. When squash is done, a fork should pierce through easily. Drain the squash in a colander.
• Place drained summer squash in a blender and blend until smooth. Add the melted butter and egg to blender and mix for a few seconds until thoroughly mixed.
• In a medium sized bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add the blended squash mixture and stir with a rubber spatula until just barely mixed (being careful not to overmix).
• Fill greased muffin cups and bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes until the tops spring back lightly to the touch and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
• Let cool in the muffin tins slightly before removing to a wire rack. Delicious when warm or at room temperature. These are also very good eaten the next day.

SPICED BUTTERNUT SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a 12 cup muffin pan.
• In a medium saucepan with enough water to cover, boil squash 20 minutes, or until tender. Remove from heat, drain, and puree in a food processor.
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, white sugar, salt and pumpkin pie spice.
• In a medium bowl, thoroughly mix together milk, egg and butter. Stir in squash. Fold the squash mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan, filling cups about 1/2 full. Bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Remove from muffin pan and cool on a wire rack.

PERFECT BUTTERNUT SQUASH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 20 muffin cups.
• Cut a 1/2-inch hole into the larger part of the squash and cover with a damp paper towel.
• Cook squash in a microwave oven in 3-minute increments, turning slightly after each increment, until squash can be easily pierced with a fork, 9 to 12 minutes. Set aside until cool to the touch, about 20 minutes.
• Halve squash lengthwise and scoop out seeds. Measure 1 1/2 cups squash into a large bowl. Mash eggs, water, vegetable oil, white sugar, and brown sugar into the squash. Whisk whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, cloves, and pumpkin pie spice into the squash mixture until you have a smooth batter. Fold raisins and walnuts into the batter.
• Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups to about 1/2 to 2/3 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.