Apple Muffins
Apple Muffins are incredibly moist and full of cinnamon apple flavor. Super easy recipe to make and a great way to use up those fresh apples you have laying around. Add these cinnamon apple muffins to your “keeper” file because they are a tasty breakfast. For healthy apple muffins, replace the vegetable oil with applesauce.
APPLE MUFFIN RECIPE
They are so easy. I literally had them in the oven in under 10 minutes. We sat down to watch television and I handed John a warm muffin.
He semi-shouted “Wow.”
I quickly scanned the TV to see what I had missed.
“No…the muffins. They’re really good.“
EASY APPLE MUFFINS
WHAT KIND OF APPLES TO USE
Granny Smith apples are often used in baking because they are tart apples and helps offset the sweetness of the baked goods. You can definitely use any kind of apples: Even sweet apples like Honeycrisp apples, Gala apples, or Pink Lady apples will work as well.
You want the apple chunks fairly small so they cook while baking.
SHOULD THE BATTER BE THIS THICK?
Yes! When you’re mixing it, it will be the texture of cookie dough and when you add in the apples the moisture from the apples will thin it out a tiny bit. It should still be really thick though.
Fill each muffin tin 3/4 of the way full. The muffins will rise a little but not a ton. I always use an ice cream scoop to fill the tins.
Sprinkle the tops of the muffins with brown sugar before baking.
The brown sugar mixture crystallizes on top of the muffin and makes a nice crunchy topping. Sure you could have a streusel topping but this simple version is all the soft muffins need.
I wish you could see how incredibly moist these warm cinnamon tender muffins are.
HEALTHY OPTIONS
There are a couple of tweaks you can make to these muffins if you want make them a little healthier.
- You can reduce the sugar from two cups to 1 1/2 cups.
- This recipe calls for 1 cup of oil. For the healthy apple cinnamon muffins, replace 1/2 the oil with applesauce.
HOW TO MAKE APPLE MUFFINS
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pan with paper liners.
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In a large mixing bowl, cream together sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon. Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until combined. The batter will be very thick. Add the diced apples.
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Fill the prepared muffin pan cups about 3/4 of the way full. Sprinkle with brown sugar crumb topping.
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Bake at 350 degrees for 20-24 minutes.
OTHER BREAKFAST RECIPES
OTHER APPLE RECIPES
- Apple Streusel Coffee Cake
- Apple Crisp Cream Danish
- Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars
- Apple Crumble
- Apple Cider Cinnamon Rolls
Apple Muffins
These Apple Muffins are incredibly moist muffins and full of cinnamon apple flavor. Super easy to make and a great way to use up those apples you have laying around.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar (or use 1 1/2 cups for a less sweet muffin)
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup oil vegetable, canola, or coconut oil
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 cups peeled cored, diced apples (around 3 apples)
- Brown sugar for topping (around 1/2 cup)
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pan with 18 paper liners.
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With a mixer, cream together sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla. The mixture should be a pale yellow.
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In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture and mix until combined. The batter will be very thick almost like the texture of cookie dough. Mix in the diced apples. The dough will loosen up a bit when the apples are mixed in.
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Fill paper liners almost to the top, about 3/4 of the way full. Sprinkle each muffin top generously with brown sugar.
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Bake at 350 degrees for 20-24 minutes. Makes 18 muffins.
Recipe Notes
NUTRITIONAL INFO: This is calculated without the brown sugar topping since that varies.
Source: Marissa Pinon
BEST MUFFINS EVERRRR!!
Every person who has tried them has said they think they are the best muffins they’ve ever had! My family DEVOURED them the first time I made them – and mind you, these muffins were literally the first time I’ve successfully made muffins. I’ve tried other muffin recipes and they’ve NEVER turned out right. (Usually mine are too dense!) So I was especially nervous about how thick the dough was before baking, but apples are super moist and as they bake they release a ton of juice which ends up making these muffins so perfectly moist and delicious in the end! And the brown sugar on top….oh man!! It adds a slight crunch/caramelization and it’s just too perfect! Love love love!!
I made the recipe as directed and these are not muffins! They would be better described as “apple breakfast cookies.” That said, they are absolutely delicious. 4 stars because I really wanted muffins for breakfast this morning, not cookies.
These apple muffins were very easy and delicious. When you write that the batter is almost like cookie batter, you mean it! In fact, the tops of the muffins take on a slight cookie crunch! I’ll make these again and again.
AWesome!
Why did I add 1 tbsp of salt? Note to self…. no more late night baking (lol)! I think I fixed it by scooping out the top layer of flour & adding it back. I also added a lil dab of coconut milk b/c it was stiff. Taking muffins longer to cook. Smells great looking fwd to getting son’s rating tomorrow. Added some nuts to a couple muffins for me as my son has nut allergies. Thank you for this easy recipe.
Update…. Muffins are delicious!!! I’m so happy. I’m going to dream of eating another one… Or two. Thank you for this 🧁💕
Oh no!
I’ve made hundreds of muffins. Every kind, every recipe, every ingredient. This has to be my Top 3 recipe of all time. Followed exactly and wowowowow. It is very thick and I thought it would be a disaster, but it sure was not. Loving husband ate 3 and I ate 3 too. Fantastic!
Aww thank you!
I’ve been making these now for years and my family still requests these over most muffins! I have to make double if the high schoolers are around—learned that the hard way when there weren’t any left for me😂
Aww that’s awesome.