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Gluten Free Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins



These muffins are just perfect for fall! Each bite your greeted with a taste of autumn. The cream cheese topping adds a great dimension to these muffins; it's soft and slightly gooey and makes them so deliciously moist.

I'm rather excited to have fall here... the hot chocolate, cozy sweaters, boots, pumpkins, apples, spices, and of course the fall flavored David's Tea!
I love looking through Pinterest at all the lovely fall recipes. (You can take a look at our Pinterest page here!) They all look sooo good...baking with fall ingredients is rather awesome. :)

Our family just harvested the pumpkins we grew this year. My sister canned some of it, so I'm enjoying using some of the filling for recipes such as this. It'll be great to have the filling canned throughout the year to use. (Plus it makes a great dog treat!)

Stay tuned for some more fall/thanksgiving recipes coming in the next little while... But in the meantime, go take a look at the recipe below and make sure to get in the kitchen and try these! I'm sure you'll love'em. :)

Gluten Free Carrot Cake

This is the perfect classic carrot cake. Great for get togethers or for a birthday! 


This recipe is very popular in our family. Often it'll be requested for a birthday cake or just as a regular dessert to enjoy after dinner. The cream cheese frosting is divine, and the actual cake itself is so moist. The pecans add a nice dimension and a little crunch to the cake. Usually I put it in a 9x13 pan, and that'll last us for a while. If you don't want that much cake, you can half the recipe.

I took out the granulated sugar and substituted with coconut sugar. There's also some brown sugar, as well as icing sugar in the frosting. All in all, there isn't a huge amount of processed sugar in this recipe compared to most cakes. It is also perfect for anyone who prefers or has to eat gluten free.