Spiced Apple Muffins
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.
Servings: 18 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.