Apple Crumb Muffins

Every September I end up with buckets of apples at my house. My mother-in-law has an apple tree that luckily produces TONS of apples and she's great at sharing! At some point in my life I acquired one of those peeler-corer thingies. Thank the Lord. It still takes forever but I know it saves me so much time. Over the last two weeks I've spent no less than 2 hours peeling and coring apples, no joke. I currently have 2 apple crisps, 2 apple pies, several pints of applesauce and a few bags of apple pie filling in my freezer!

So when I had another milk crate of apples delivered the other day I knew apple pie, sauce and crisp was out of the question. This week we've switched to apple muffins and an AWESOME caramel apple cake. Today isn't my turn to post, but I had to share this apple muffin recipe. These are so moist and yummy! And considering the possibility that some of you may have a boat-load of apples at your house too... it seemed like great timing. They were a big hit in my family.

Stay tuned. Next week I'll give you the Caramel Apple Cake recipe. Its one of those poke-holes-in-the-cake recipes and pour caramel into them. Delicious.

~Wendy

Apple Crumb Muffins

Recipe Type: Breakfast

Author: Wendy

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 18 mins

Total time: 28 mins

Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 2 c. flour


• ½ tsp baking soda


• 1 tsp baking powder


• 1 tsp salt


• ½ c. butter (at room temperature)


• 1 c. sugar


• 2 eggs


• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla


• 1 ½ cup chopped apples


• Crumble Topping


• 1/3 c. brown sugar


• 1 Tbsp. flour


• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon


• 1 Tbsp butter


• Frosting


• 1/4 c. powdered sugar


• 2-3 Tbsp milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375


2. Line a muffin tray with 12 muffin papers, and fill each one with a spoonful of brown sugar to hold it down and to create a bit of crust by patting down with your finger.


3. In a medium sized bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.


4. In a larger bowl cream together the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla, stir in apples. Once they are mixed in, slowly mix in flour, small portions at a time.


5. In a separate small bowl, mix the 1/3 cup of brown sugar, 1 Tlb of flour, ¼ tsp of cinnamon, and 1 Tlb of butter. Mix together until it starts to create small balls of sand like crumbs. Set crumb topping aside.


6. Fill each muffin cup about ¾ of the way with muffin batter, and then sprinkle each with 1 tsp of crumble mix


7. Once all are loaded, place in oven, and set for 18 minutes (at the half way point turn the muffins around in the oven).


8. While the muffins are cooking, make the icing by pouring a little bit of milk at a time into your powdered sugar, until you reach the consistency that you desire.


9. When muffins are done, remove from the oven, let cool for 10 minutes, and then drizzle icing on, serve.

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