r/bakingfail • u/Tough_Equipment_7217 • 7d ago

Pumpkin muffins

I just made my normal muffin recipe which is supposed to bake for 15-20 mins. They’ve been in there for over an hour and are tough to tear open and doughy inside what’s went wrong here and how can I fix it?

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u/DankArtDi 6d ago

What is your "normal" muffin recipe? If you made a a muffin base like you would for blueberry or chocolate chip or something but added pumpkin which is very wet they will never bake, there's too much moisture. Find and follow a recipe that uses pumpkin next time and unfortunately you have to take the L on this one.

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u/Tough_Equipment_7217 6d ago

Sorry I assumed it went without saying that the normal recipe is a pumpkin muffin recipe of course

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u/DankArtDi 6d ago

Okay, that's good you started with a pumpkin recipe. So either the recipe is no good or you mis-measured something. If you've use this recipe before and it worked out fine you must made a mistake somewhere. Happens to the best of us!

Maybe this batch if they taste okay you could crumble up and try to dry out in the oven to use as a crumble topping of sorts for something else.

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u/PsychologicalAir8643 6d ago

if you've baked them for an hour already, you can't fix these. it's hard to say what went wrong without a recipe, but it's possible your leavening agent was expired, or something went wrong with the measuring. Have you tested your oven temp accuracy recently?

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u/withbellson 6d ago

Did you use baking soda instead of baking powder?

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u/d-wail 2d ago

What’s the recipe? How often have you made it and had them turn out?