I can only speak for myself, but I have had an awesomely gluttonous November and December.  It started off with my over the top, rich, decadent Thanksgiving stuffing and I have been indulging (heavily) every since.  Parties, cocktails, cookie exchanges, wine, big dinners, little dinners – everything has been awesome and abundant.  I am beginning to feel the tightness in my jeans, not to mention my protruding muffin top.  Something has to give and I decided to make this year more about healthy recipes.  Starting  now….

You may have heard of these already, I initially found the recipe on Pinterest and have fallen in love with them.  It is super basic, just two ingredients, but soooooo delicious.  I also have to add the caveat that I don’t even like pumpkin.  So here it is:

• One 18.25 box of cake mix, any flavor (for the variety in the photographs I used Devil’s Food, but have made them with yellow cake mix and they are dynamite)
• One 15 oz. can of 100% pumpkin puree

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.

Sift the cake mix in the bowl, this is very important – do not skip this step. See how chunky the cake mix is….

Next, add the pumpkin and mix until completely combined.

Spoon into muffin tins and bake.  For my oven, the mini muffins take 13 minutes and the larger muffins take about 21 minutes.  It really depends on the oven though.

These muffins are so yummy and delicious and really resemble the taste of a brownie.   Let’s also not forget how good pumpkin is for you either.

If you have any yummy, healthy recipes I would love to know what they are.  Please leave a comment or email me and let me know.

Calorie Content: This really depends on how big your muffins are.  For my batch, I calculated the total amount of calories for the entire recipe to be 2060 calories and a total of 18 grams of fat. I made 24 mini muffins and 8 large muffins.  Based on this, I calculated each mini muffin to be about 40 calories and each large muffin to be 150 calories.