These pumpkin pie spiced cashew streusel topped granola muffins are the ‘hellooooooooooooo where have you been all my life’ breakfast muffins. They are the ‘why did I not make more of these sooner as they make getting out of bed easier’ kind of muffins.
They are also the jazz up your lunch box and make your co-workers just that little bit envious muffins. They are filling but delicious, perfect hot or cold, not too sweet and not too cake-like. And their golden cashew streusel topping is just perfect. I could go on.
These cashew crumble granola muffins are pretty straightforward and easy to make from pantry staples like granola, cashews, flour, pumpkin pie spice and oranges. Plus, making them gave the kids a chance to play around with their current favourite gadget, aka the Redmond Smart Kitchen SkyScales, as they HAD to do all the weighing out followed by ALL the mixing. They had so much fun making these that they have asked to make these for the cousins Halloween breakfast get together. Result right?
I am liking my muffins simple like this, but feel free to add in other nuts, fruits and flavours to your taste. See the more christmasy cashew cranberry stresuel granola muffins version for a different idea.
PS – When you have a moment do pop over to the Redmond Smart Kitchen SkyScales website. They are fab as they can tell you the calorific and nutritional information in your meal as you weight out your ingredients. This means that you don’t have to spend ages working it out yourself especially when you are whipping up a more complex meal. And it does help you keep an eye on your calorie intake.
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- 175 g (1 1/4 cup) plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ tsp salt
- 120 ml (1/2 cup) vegetable oil
- 180 ml (3/4 cup) milk
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- 100 g (2/3 cup) sugar
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 100 g (1 cup) nutty granola
- 140 g (1 cup) cashews roughly chopped
- 50 g (1/2 cup) flour sifted
- 100 g (1 cup) granola
- 4 tbsp maple syrup
- Preheat the oven to fan assisted 160C / 180C / 350F / gas 4 and line a 12 cup muffin tray with paper cases.
- In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice and salt.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the oil, milk, egg, orange juice, sugar and orange zest.
- Add the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until just combined, then quickly fold in the nutty granola.
- Divide the muffin batter equally into the muffin cases.
- Make the cashew cranberry streusel topping by mixing all the ingredients together in a bowl and diving the topping evenly over the muffins.
- Bake in the oven for 22 mins or until a skewer inserted into a muffin comes out clean.
- Remove the muffins immediately to a rack to cool completely.
I’ve never heard about this smart scale!! OMG!! That’s awesome!!
I need to get a kitchen scale.. One of these days lol. These muffins are the bomb!
These muffins look amazing and I’m all over a crumb/streusel topping! Maybe a smart scale should go on my Christmas wish list for this year!
Hope santa brings you one.
These sound like the perfect fall muffin!
Perfect breakfast facing the cooler months ahead. Very nice!
You had me at pumpkin pie! These look too good to eat.
Yum! These granola muffins look awesome. Also — my mind is TOTALLY blown that the scale can tell you the calories, too. SO cool!
These are my kind of muffins and wish I had one right now. I am loving the scale and need to check it out.
I’m buying a smart scale too. 🙂 And those muffins are truly the inspirations for getting out of bed. Love the way they came out. Yum
Yaye, have fun with your new purchase.
Weighing products and counting calories as well as all the macros for me, are you kidding me? Seriously, I have never heard about such scales before. It’s freaking awesome! The muffins look fantastic too!
Yeap, the scales are freaking awesome.
Great looking muffins Bintu, perfect for this time of year!
🙂
That streusel!!!! Oh-ma-Gawd! Fabulous!
hahaha, that was the reaction I was going for.
my kids have been on a huge muffin kick lately. I am totally going to make these.
Enjoy.
I’m so ready for everything Pumpkin and these muffins looks great! The combination of pumpkin-pie + cashew streusel sounds fantastic.
This smart scale looks great, as do those delightful looking muffins.
Oh, those muffins look so good!
Yeap, they do.