Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

On our honeymoon almost 13 years ago Bruce and I stayed at a cute bed and breakfast in Utah, The Castle Creek Inn.  Our first morning we were presented with a delicious breakfast which included pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.  Those muffins were so moist and yummy.

 One of my favorite memories from our honeymoon  is still those muffins.  We have stayed at The Castle Creek Inn twice since our honeymoon, but pumpkin chocolate chip muffins weren't on the menu.  A few weeks ago I was looking for a recipe to try to recreate those muffins.  I found a few different recipes and tried one of them,  the muffins were good, but not same.  So I decided to call up the Inn and ask if I could have their recipe for Pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, to my surprise they gave it to me.   Tomorrow morning guess what my family is having for breakfast?  You guessed it, pumpkin chocolate chip muffin.

Here is the recipe for you to try and enjoy.

Castle Creek Inn’s Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

3 cups of sugar

5 ½ cups flours

2 tsp salt

1 tsp cloves

1 tsp allspice

1 tsp nutmeg

1Tbsp baking powder

1Tbsp baking soda

1 Tbsp cinnamon

1Tbsp vanilla

6 eggs

1 cup butter

1-29 oz.  Can of pumpkin

3 cups chocolate chips

Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl.

Add vanilla, eggs, butter, pumpkin, and chocolate chips.

Mix till well blended

Scoop mix into muffin pan, fill cups full (muffins only rise slightly)

Bake @ 350 degrees for 20 minutes

Yeilds about 40 regular size muffins

For 2 loafs bake for 1 hour

Leave me a peep and let me know how your muffins turn out.

Since I last Posted

WOW!! So much has happened since my last post. Hailey and Hannah started and ended a new school year. I also found out that a new baby was coming to our family. This fourth pregnancy was not a good one. Morning sickness turned into all day sickness and lasted for 20 weeks. Then Gestational diabetes started at week 28, insuline shoots and all.


We potty trained luke, this was not fun. With the new baby on it's way we turned the play room into the girls room. Painted, bought new beds and bedding. unfortunatley the beds took 5 weeks to be delivered instead of 2. Because of this luke is stuck with purple walls and mix matched bedding. It's a good thing he is only 4 and doesn't really care.


Cash, my baby boy, arrived a few weeks early in April. This girls and Luke adore him, and so do I.

In June we our yorkie past away after being part of our family for 10 years. I never thought lossing a pet would be as hard as it was. We buried Cody in our back yard under my flowers.

The Last month of summer has been tons of fun. Our street has many great families, and the kids would play around the clock if we let them. I have loved having all the kids in the house.

Cash is starting to get on somewhat of a schedule and I am getting ansy to start crafting. I have a great craft room that full of supplies, the only problem is that it is a disaster. I can't find anything let alone walk in the room with out stepping on things. My craft room needs to be my next project. So I will post pictures so you can see my progress.

My yard

My Front yard looks great. I have been working on the flower beds for about two week and I think they are done. I have received lot and lots of comments. That's not the important part.

Bruce, my sweet huddy, made this comment to me, after talking about how great our yard looks, "You do a great job at everything that you WANT to do."

HA, HA. While I was working in the yard the house got pretty bad. The dishes didn't get done, the laundry piled up, the kids had free reign. I'm not so good at multi tasking.

Landscaping

These are Pictures of my home from 2007. We had just moved it and were so happy to have more room for the family.

After 2 years I am so pleased with the new landscaping. It was lots of work but as you can see, well worth the time.