Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins

It's that time of the year folks!! Pumpkin everything time is just around the corner so why not try a new pumpkin muffin recipe??  I made this today with the help of my mom, sister, 6 year old niece, and my 3 year old nephew. Now if it's possible to make these muffins with that much commotion in the kitchen then you know anyone can do it!!
Cook time for this recipe is ~15 minutes with 10 minutes of prep

What you need:

• 1 cup quick cooking oats
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 tbs baking powder
• 2.5 tsp pumpkin pie spine (YUMMY)
• 4 eggs (use 5 egg whites if we're going for healthy)
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup canola oil ( we didn't have any of this so we used olive oil from Newman's Own)
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 can solid packed pumpkin
• 24 pecan halves

For the icing: 

• 1 pkg cream cheese 8 oz
• 1/4 cup butter
• 4 cups confection sugar (cane sugar in normal person speak)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp maple extract

Now what to do:

oven at 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients into a bowl and set aside. Then mix eggs, brown sugar, and oil in a mixer until light and fluffy. Add water and pumpkin and mix thoroughly.

Mix this well and then add stir in dry ingredients. Fill muffin tins 2/3 full. Bake about 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean (like that ever really happens)

Now onto the fattening delicious part.. the icing. Cream together the cream cheese and butter to make icing. Now that's what the actual instructions said but who really knows what it means to "cream" something together. So we decided that meant to put it in the mixer as well. Then stir in the confection sugar and the maple and vanilla extract. It should look a little something like this:

Once the muffins have cooled you can add the icing and 1 pecan half on top to make these beauties. 

Overall I think they turned out very good and the icing was wonderful!! Happy baking yall!

Now I probably should have been studying for my test and case study due Monday... but honestly these are the little things I will remember for the rest of my life. And I probably will forget the stuff for this test by the end of next week... so no regrets on the procrastination. I'd much rather hang out with the two angels below:

This is the newest addition to our family baby Hunter. He's 2 months old and all this baking and action completely tired him out!! Sweetest baby ever!

Meet Zoey!! My teacup yorkie! I'm completely obsessed so you can look forward to hearing tons about her.. and yes she does wear dresses... And she loves it!