This is one of my favorite gluten-free treats. The pumpkin flavor is perfect for the holiday season!
Paleo Pumpkin Spice Poppers
Makes 24 mini-muffin poppers
You will need a mini muffin tin for this one!
Ingredients
1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling), (like this)
1/2 cup grass-fed butter, melted*
5 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup coconut flour (I use this brand)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon all spice
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda (I like this brand)
coconut oil for greasing muffin tins
For coating:
1/2 cup grass-fed butter, melted*
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons organic maple sugar or organic coconut sugar
- Preheat oven to 350 F and use coconut oil to coat muffin tin.
- In a bowl, combine, butter, eggs, vanilla, pumpkin and honey. Whisk until thoroughly mixed.
- Sift together coconut flour, salt and spices. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Whisk to combine.
- Let sit for 5 minutes to allow the coconut flour to absorb the wet ingredients.
- Add baking soda, stir until baking soda is mixed through.
- Fill mini-muffin tins until almost full.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow muffins to cool for a few minutes by either removing them from the pan and setting them on a cooling rack or leaving them in the pan and tipping them on their sides.
- Melt the butter on the stove top on low heat, watching it carefully to make sure that it doesn’t burn. Place melted butter in a small bowl. Mix maple (or coconut) sugar and cinnamon in a separate small bowl. After poppers have cooled for a few minutes, dip them in the butter and roll them in the sugar mixture.
- Enjoy!
*NOTE: To make this completely dairy-free, substitute butter for palm shortening. I use this brand and this brand.
Can’t you substitute Stevia for the sugar and Ghee for the butter? That would make it closer to Primal/Paleo…I have to try these!
Those substitutions should work fine! Let me know how they turn out!
Have you considered adding an I Eat Food banner and submitting this to the round-up we’re doing for Halloween & pumpkin goodness? You have until tomorrow to submit! 😉
Hi Stacy! I hadn’t. I’ve been terrible at keeping up with my blog, since I have been back at work. I will take a look now, sounds awesome!