All the festive spices, but in a muffin!

• 350g/12 ¼ oz plain flour (all-purpose flour)
• 250g/9 oz sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon bicarbonate soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons mixed spice
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 250g/9 oz pumpkin puree
• 250g/9 oz coconut milk
• 110g/4 oz vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons cider vinegar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 350F/180C/Gas 4.

Line two cupcake trays with paper cases, you should get 16-18 from this recipe.

Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, bicarbonate soda, salt and spices.  In a separate bowl whisk together the pumpkin, coconut milk, oil, vinegar and vanilla.  Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and whisk until combined, be careful not to over mix.

Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases, about two thirds full.  Bake for about 18 to 20 minutes. 

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Rachel is an English witch who has been walking the Pagan pathway for over thirty years.
A working wife and mother who has had over 30 books published (so far), some of them becoming best sellers. Her passion is to learn, she loves to study and has done so from books, online resources, schools and wonderful mentors over the years and still continues to learn each and every day but has learnt the most from actually getting outside and doing it.
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Rachel gives talks to pagan groups and co-runs workshops with the Kitchen Witch Coven.
High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft. A regular columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine, she also contributes articles to several magazines such as Pagan Dawn and Witchcraft & Wicca. You will find her regular ramblings on her own personal blog and YouTube channel. Rachel is host for the Pagan Portals Podcast, produced by Moon Books Publishing. ​Her craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, Wicca, hedge witchery, kitchen witchery and folk magic. Her heart is that of an English Kitchen Witch.
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