I don’t know when enjoying pumpkin-everything made a girl “basic” but if loving pumpkin is wrong, I don’t want to be right. It’s my birthday at the end of the week and I wanted to enjoy SOMEthing pumpkin without feeling like I completely went off track with healthy eating. So I found a weight watchers recipe for pumpkin spice cupcakes and adapted it a bit. In all fairness, my recipe is more like a muffin vs. a cupcake because there is no icing happening here!

Makes 12 regular-sized muffins

Ingredients:

• 1/2 box of Duncan Hines spice cake box mix
• 1/2 banana
• 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
• 2 eggs
• 2 scoops vanilla protein
• 1/2 cup water
• Pumpkin pie spice to top

Mix all ingredients (excluding the spice) with a mixer, fill cupcake tray with mix, top each one with sprinkle of spice before popping in the oven for 16 minutes at 325 degrees.

Yes, it’s THAT simple. AND they are husband-approved!

I ate one right out of the oven with some fat free Reddi whip on top.

No clue what the calorie/macro breakdown is because I’m not logging numbers/counting anything these days… but I do know that I don’t feel guilty for having one. #nonscalevictory