Last year was the Year of the Muffin in our house. Our
homeschool co-op met on Friday mornings each week, and I needed a quick, grab
and go breakfast since we live 30 minutes away. Through this situation I
started searching out muffin recipes to try each week. Quite a few of them
became family favorites including the Pumpkin Butterscotch Muffins and Banana Chunk Muffins that I’ve already shared on the blog.
Well, Preacher Man would eat these “fancy” muffins as
he called them, but finally he asked me, “Why can’t you just make a simple,
basic muffin?” These muffins were born from that request.
Here is what you need to make Apple Spice Muffins:
2 cups all purpose flour
½ cup sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. nutmeg
¼ tsp. salt
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 cup unsweetened applesauce (We prefer chunky
applesauce.)
¼ cup butter, melted
½ cup plain yogurt
Toppings (because I couldn’t just leave it simple, but
they are really good without anything extra):
Powdered Sugar Glaze (Mix 1 Tbsp. milk and ¾ cup
powdered sugar. Drizzle over muffins after removing from oven.)
Streusel Topping (Mix ½ cup flour, ¼ cup packed brown
sugar, ½ stick softened butter, ½ tsp. cinnamon in a bowl with a fork or your
fingers. Sprinkle over muffins before baking.)
First, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and
spices in a medium bowl.
Add the egg, applesauce, melted butter, and yogurt to
the flour mixture.
Stir until just blended.
Spoon into a greased muffin pan.
Bake at 375 degrees for 18-20 minutes.
For this post I added the powdered sugar glaze from
above. Yummy!
Apple
Spice Muffins
2
cups all purpose flour
½
cup sugar
2
tsp. baking powder
1
tsp. cinnamon
½
tsp. nutmeg
¼
tsp. salt
1
large egg, lightly beaten
1
cup unsweetened applesauce (We prefer chunky applesauce.)
¼
cup butter, melted
½
cup plain yogurt
Optional
Toppings:
Powdered
Sugar Glaze (Mix 1 Tbsp. milk and ¾ cup powdered sugar. Drizzle over muffins
after removing from oven.)
Streusel
Topping (Mix ½ cup flour, ¼ cup packed brown sugar, ½ stick softened butter, ½ tsp.
cinnamon in a bowl with a fork or your fingers. Sprinkle over muffins before
baking.)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 12 cup
muffin pan. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and spices in a medium
bowl. Add the egg, applesauce, butter, and yogurt. Stir until just blended.
Spoon into the muffin pan. Bake 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in
the center comes out clean. Cool for five minutes in the pan.
Preacher Man was a happy, simple man in the tree house,
