Copycat Tim Hortons Pumpkin Spice Muffins
Oct 16, 2009, Updated Sep 21, 2016
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This copycat Tim Hortons pumpkin spice muffin tastes just like the real deal. Perfectly moist and packed full of spices. Never go through the drive thru again.
Hello Nutmeg Nanny readers, it’s Faith from Thought 4 Food! I’m excited to be back guest-posting for Brandy! 🙂
As a food blogger, I’m always looking for inspiration for new recipes. One of my main sources for inspiration is other food bloggers, but I also get tons of ideas from eating out, whether it’s at a restaurant or at someone else’s house.
This particular muffin recipe was inspired by my favorite seasonal muffin at Tim Horton’s. If you’re not familiar with Tim Horton’s, it’s a coffee chain in parts of Canada and the northeastern U.S. Their coffee is the BEST I’ve ever had, hands down…so good in fact that it was widely rumored that they put nicotine in the coffee to make people addicted…Tim Horton’s actually addressed this rumor and put it to rest.
Anyway, the Tim Horton’s pumpkin spice muffins are incredible…moist pumpkin (almost cake-like) muffins with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, with a dollop of sweet cream cheese in the middle and candied pumpkin seeds on top. To make these into more of a breakfast muffin (as opposed to a sweet treat, cake-like muffin) I eliminated the cream cheese frosting center, and used toasted sunflower seeds instead of candied pumpkin seeds. But of course, feel free to add the frosting and use candied pumpkin or sunflower seeds! 😉
Pumpkin Spice Muffins
This copycat Tim Hortons pumpkin spice muffin tastes just like the real deal. Perfectly moist and packed full of spices. Never go through the drive thru again.
Yield: 12 muffins
Ingredients:
- 6 tablespoons butter - room temperature
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup unsweetened pumpkin puree
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoon apple butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice mix (my mix has cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice, and nutmeg)
- 6 teaspoon sunflower or pumpkin seeds, toasted
- Cooking spray
- 12 muffin liners
- Muffin tray
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400F. Cream together the butter, white and brown sugars, and molasses; then cream in the eggs and vanilla; then stir in the pumpkin, buttermilk, and apple butter. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spice. Gradually stir the dry ingredients into the wet. (The batter will be pretty thick.)
Line a muffin try with liners, then lightly spray each with cooking spray. Fill each muffin cup, then top each with ½ tsp of seeds. Bake for about 16-18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
I have got to get my hands on some pumpkin puree (not easy to find in the UK). I need these muffins.
Oh my! Pumpkin muffins! What a perfect treat. A good cup of coffee ( Maybe, Tim Horton’s) and a couple of these muffins and life would be good.
Very nice recipe!
I’ve never been to Tim Horton’s, but I’m so glad I can make these muffins now!
I love the grammar in this post. Can you guest post more often?
I think my most favorite thing to do with pumpkins is to bake with them. I bet these are just delicious! I love re-creating recipes. The thought of the cream cheese middles had my mouth watering.
Oh yum! I’ll take some for my breakfast in the morning! 😀
These look delicious for breakfast and/or an anytime snack. Wish I had one right now. 🙂
I love pumpkin muffins. They are so tasty and yours look delicious!
Yum… I love pumpkin muffins… They look delicious!
I had one of these muffins the other day and have been purposefully driving a little more quickly past Tim Horton’s. If I went in every time I went by (I go by 4 every day to and from work) I would be in such trouble with my diet.These muffins are the best, bar none, of any food Timmys makes. These little pieces of gastronomic delights are so delicious I can’t believe I have not had one before. Now the recipe is here! OH DIET be d—-ed!! Off to chop up the halloween pumpkins and make a batch (maybe two or three or four or …..)LOL. Thank you so much for the recipe.