Sugar Free Jumbo Pumpkin Spice Muffins

About a month ago I was craving pumpkin baked goods.  I had to get my hands on some or else!  The problem was that I stopped eating sugar and white flour and had no recipes for a pumpkin baked good.  So I went to work, searching on the Internet for the perfect recipe (I am a librarian you know; I get paid to look stuff up on the Internet).  This is the recipe that I found.  I still had to adapt it because I am not eating sugar substitutes either.

Mix the dry and then the wet.  This is what you get.  The one substitution I did was for the stevia, not that stevia is terrible or anything.  I just wanted to use a naturally occurring sugar (stevia may be naturally occurring; that's neither here nor there since I didn't want to buy any).  So I used 1/16 cup of maple syrup and 1/16 cup of honey.  I was really just playing here-no rhyme or reason to it.  I knew that I wanted less than 1/4 cup of sugar so I succeeded there.  

Once I made the batter I decided I wanted a topping as well.  I used pecans, oatmeal, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg and agave nectar.  I made this "recipe" up.  There were no measuring spoons involved.  If I were to try to duplicate it, it probably wouldn't be exactly the same.  

Here they are after baking.  I did not make them jumbo size but they are still delicious.  I made almost two dozen.  It turned out they were too good for my own good so I quickly contacted my go-to people so I could give some away.  So I got to spread the healthy pumpkin muffin cheer and keep about a dozen for me.  I still have some in the freezer and they are still super good: just as moist as when I made them.