I love butternut squash and I love muffins. So I combined them. I don’t know why I didn’t think to do it sooner!
Butternut Squash Muffins
Ingredients:
1 cup butternut squash, pureed
3/4 cup milk
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup oil
1 Tbs lemon juice
3 Tbs maple syrup
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
1/8 tsp nutmeg
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400* and coat a muffin tin with cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the wet ingredients (butternut puree through maple syrup).
3. In a small bowl, mix together the dry ingredients (flour through nutmeg).
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until just combined. Spoon batter into muffin tin.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until done. Cool on a wire rack and enjoy!
Ready for something really random?
I saw this on a friend’s Instagram the other day and it made me laugh. 
It made me laugh because up until last year, I thought narwhals were fake, just like unicorns…
I was in a book store, looking at National Geographic animal picture books with Jimmy (yeah… we’re that cool), and I saw a picture of narwhals. I was like “Wow, they made those narwhals look so real! Technology amazes me!” Jimmy looked at me really weirdly and explained that narwhals are real. Then he laughed at me for a few minutes because I was so excited to find out that little fact.
It’s the little things in life 😉
Living My Full Life 
I actually had no idea narwhals legit existed, either! You’re not alone!
I am SO glad I’m not the only one 🙂
Those muffins look so delicious! Do you have any tips for cutting butternut squash?? I need more muscles!
Thanks! I wish I did… I just try to remember how good it will taste and think about how all the cutting is worth it ;). I have heard some people heat theirs up in the microwave to get it softer, but then you have to wait for it to cool. So it would probably take the same amount of time in the end.. but microwaving would be less (muscle) effort! I actually bought the squash for this recipe pre-cubed, in a steamable bag from wal-mart!
I’ve heard of that, but never seen it! I’ll have to look in my freezer section.
Maybe I could microwave it, then put it outside to cool 😛
great muffin recipe!
Thanks Alex! Have a great day 🙂
Actually this really inspires me to work on a butternut squash recipe for pancakes. That would probably be really good. I only knew about narwhales due to my obsession with zoo tycoon back in the day…
Yessss.. please make a butternut squash pancake! That would be DELISH 🙂
LOL at zoo tycoon hahaha I only ever played roller coaster tycoon!
OMG YESSS!!!!!!! ZOO TYCOON FOR THE WIN!!!!!! 😀
Love the recipe! And I seriously just died laughing about that narwhal unicorn picture hahaha!!!
It’s such a goofy picture I HAD to share it! Good luck with your test <3333
You are a baking machine!!! Love me some butternut squash!
I wish I was a baking machine… I need more time!
I had no idea that those creatures existed either!
Crazy, right?!
Haha one time recently I started doubting the existence of narwhals so I googled them and got engrossed in reading about them. I love the instagram picture!!
Hahaha.. funny story… right after I posted this I went on YouTube and watched narwhal videos :p
They’re LEGIT!
Hmmm, those muffins looks SO great! And, hmmm, I didn’t realize that narwhals were real either. LOL!!
It just doesn’t seem possible that they’re real!!! Crazy 🙂
Okay so I totally did not know that narwhals were real so you are definitely not alone there, haha! And I have to say, those muffins look really yummy! Did they taste squash-y?
You are amazing! Making up your own snazzy recipes and stuff.
those muffins look amazingggggggggggggggggg
and you and Jimmy sound like you have a blast together!! so glad you have a great guy!