You can find my homemade baking mix here: Quick Mix.

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease muffin pan or use papers. Place raisins and pecans in a small saucepan with rum and vanilla. Bring to a boil then turn off heat, cover, and let sit while preparing the muffin batter. (If you prefer, you can soak the raisins in plain water or some other concoction of your choice, and you don’t have to soak the nuts at all. Do what you want.) Mix squash, eggs, oil and corn syrup in a large bowl.

Add two cups baking mix and cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and mace.

In go the raisins and pecans. Spoon batter into muffin cups. I fill the cups almost to the top.

Bake at 350-degrees for 25-30 minutes, till lightly browned on top. Turn out onto a wire rack. Melt a little bit of butter and drizzle on top of the baked muffins. Sprinkle with turbinado sugar.

These are such moist muffins, you can eat them without adding anything. Or add some butter if you want. Better yet, cut one open and pour some maple syrup on top. You’ll think you died and went to heaven.

These are my new favorite muffins. At least until the next muffins. I love muffins!

*Makes 16 regular-sized muffins.