For these muffins you need warm ground spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves. If you don’t have the spices listed here you can use pumpkin pie spice will work great too. Use 2 1/4 tsp then omit cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. However if you are unable to get these spices, the same amount of store bought allspice (mixed spice) will work as a substitute