Warm, spicy, and with little pockets of tender apple: these Spiced Apple Muffins are the perfect breakfast treat! topped with a crunchy cinnamon topping, they’re mouthwateringly delicious.
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There is something so comforting in a warm and fluffy muffins straight from the oven. The aroma, the taste, the experience: it’s all so cozy.
These Spiced Apple Muffins are the perfect thing to make on a cool afternoon. Warm spices combine with tender bits of chopped apples, yielding a perfect bite each time. Read on to learn more about these scrumptious Spiced Apple Muffins!
How To Make Spiced Apple Muffins
These muffins are so easy to make! Here’s what you’ll do:
- Cream together oil, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla together
- Separately combine flour, baking soda, spices, and salt
- Alternating between the flour mixture and buttermilk, mix into the brown sugar and egg mixture
- Fold in chopped apples
- Pour batter into muffin pan
- Spoon a mixture of melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon on top of each muffin
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes
Ways To Make Muffins Your Own
Baking can be intimating for some, but it doesn’t have to be! When you find a recipe you love for a baked good, such as muffins, you can adjust the “extra” ingredients to make them your own. For example, my Mom’s Rhubarb Muffin recipe features the same base as this recipe does, with apples and warm spices being swapped in to make them different.
For a muffin recipe like this, you can swap the apple and other spices for different additions to create your own! A few ideas that would be delicious:
- Pear + Cardamom
- Raspberries + Lemon Zest
- Blueberries + Orange Zest + Nutmeg
Other Breakfast Recipes To Serve With Spiced Apple Muffins
Tools To Make Spiced Apple Muffins
- Muffin Pan
- Cookie Scoop (to scoop batter evenly and mess-free!)
- Muffins Liners like these or these
- Mixing Bowls
- Kitchenaid Stand Mixer or Hand Mixer
- Spatula
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Spiced Apple Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
- 1/2 cup neutral oil, like canola
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cup Granny Smith apple, chopped
For the cinnamon crunch topping:
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp butter, melted
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the oil, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla together until sugar is combined.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder, spices, and salt.
- Alternating between flour mixture and buttermilk, mix 1/3 of each in to the sugar until incorporated. Be careful to not overmix! Fold in chopped apples.
- Line two muffin pans with liners. Note that this recipe makes 18 muffins, although you may be able to get a full 24 if you use less batter in each muffin!
- Prepare the topping: in a small bowl combine melted butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Top each muffin with brown sugar topping.
- Baked for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean, and brown sugar topping is melted.
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