Apple Muffins
These Apple Muffins are incredibly moist and full of cinnamon apple flavor. Super easy to make and a great way to use up those apples you have laying around.
Add this one to your “keeper” file because these apple muffins are tasty. If you want to make a healthy version of these apple muffins, replace the oil with applesauce.
APPLE MUFFINS
Moist apple muffins with chunks of apple and cinnamon flavor throughout.
We are down to one laptop again so I haven’t been able to post anything. John’s busy doing taxes so I guess he gets priority on the laptop.
Remember when I shamelessly begged for your recipes…well I didn’t really expect to get any but I did get a couple from you. Thank you. It absolutely made my day!
I had just bought a pack of 16 apples from Costco and was wondering how in the world I was going to eat all of them when I got an email from Marissa with her favorite apple muffin recipe.
They are so easy. I literally had them in the oven in under 10 minutes. We sat down to watch the Olympics and I handed John a warm muffin.
He semi-shouted “Wow.”
I quickly scanned the TV to see what I had missed in the speed skating.
“No…the muffins. They’re really good.”
EASY APPLE MUFFINS
These apple muffins have a brown sugar topping that gives the top a slight crunch and then the inside is super moist. Love ’em. Thanks for the recipe Marissa.
These Apple Muffins have become a tried and true recipe in our house and with my friends and family.
HOW TO MAKE APPLE MUFFINS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pan with paper liners.
- Cream together sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon\. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture and mix until combined. The batter will be very thick. Add the diced apples.
- Fill paper liners almost to the top, about 3/4 of the way full. Sprinkle with brown sugar.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20-24 minutes.
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Apple Muffins
These Apple Muffins are incredibly moist 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
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
- 3 cups 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
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pan with paper liners.
- Cream together sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon (I never sift and they turn out fine). Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture and mix until combined. The batter will be very thick. Add the diced apples.
- Fill paper liners almost to the top, about 3/4 of the way full. Sprinkle with brown sugar.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20-24 minutes. Makes 18 muffins.
Recipe Notes
Source: Marissa Pinon
Just took out of the oven and they look and smell beautiful. I appreciate the simplicity of the recipe. I frequently make the shrimp enchiladas and blueberry cream cheese croissants from this site, so I anticipate another keeper. I added some ground flaxseed as I do most muffin and cookie recipes.
Oh thank you Sharon. I’m glad you enjoyed these as well.
great
delicious
excellent
THE
best!!!!!!
So glad you approve!
Made these
Tonight with only slightly less sugar . Thanks for a delicious recipe!!!! My parents and my husband loved them!
So glad you liked it!
These were absolutely stellar! All of my friends loved them! I will be making these again soon, they’re so so good! At first I thought the batter was a little thick, but it turned out fine. Thank you so much, have a good day!
The batter is thick but it turns out.
Good taste but pretty dense for a muffin, in my opinion. I would reduce the amount of sugar as well, very sweet. Overall not bad
I just came across this recipe and decided to give it a try. We got a handful of apples from our tree this year, but they weren’t really in good enough shape to just eat. I made a double batch, used 2 eggs and 1/2 c applesauce, (next time I will use the eggs and replace part of the oil instead), and instead of 6 cups of white flour, I used 2 cups flour, 2 cups whole wheat, and 2 cups coconut flour. I also used 1 cup white sugar, brown sugar and stevia. Then I trimmed the good parts off the apples and mixed them in. I don’t really like chunks of apples and my kids are super picky, but these were good! Thank you!
So glad you liked them.
Excellent. Will probably make for Thanksgiving. I used only 1 1/2 cup sugar and plenty sweet. Could go with even less sugar.
You could definitely go with less!
I will NEVER make these again! I have been baking for nearly 60 years; and, I have to say this is the worst batter I have EVER worked with! Thick, you say? More like Concrete! To me, you took an apple cake recipe and used it for muffins. At least with the apple cake, once you have made it, you pour it in one pan. Working with this batter was a nightmare. They are in the oven right now; but, no matter how good they might be, I will not try this again.
Lynne,
How did they turn out? It’s definitely not a traditional batter but I promise they have 250 good reviews for a reason.
This is by far my favorite of all the apple muffin recipes I’ve tried. For my topping, I make a struesel mix before I put it in the oven and after it’s out I pour a maple glaze on top. They’re similar to the apple mapple muffins Costco used to make, just more moist.
I would love a streusel on top!
All I can say is…Wow! I used haralson apples that a friend gave me and they turned out delicious. I am not a fan of Apple pie etc. Too much Apple, so I was thinking I would not like these, but they are a perfect ratio of Apple, cinnamon, brown sugar. I’m in love.
So glad they turned out.
I made these with 1c white sugar 1/2c brown sugar in the batter, I also used two snack cup applesauce cinnamon flavor (2/3c approx.) ,along with 1/2c vegetable oil. I added 1&1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice instead of plain cinnamon, added 1/2-3/4c chopped pecans, and they are awesome. The extra bit of applesauce made the batter more manageable to stir. I used my cookie scoop and put two scoops in each cup of my tall silicone muffin pans baked 20-22mins til skewer came out clean with only crumbs. 1-1/2 scoops on my shallow Teflon pans cooked them 18-20 min til toothpick came out with only crumbs on it. These are quite adjustable to your liking. Also used baking powder instead of baking soda as suggested in comments they’re light and airy with great apple flavor, perfect for fall! Love the brown sugar crunch on top, reminds me of Carmel apples. Thanks! 👍🏽
Wow. Lots of changes but I’m glad they turned out.
I wanted a healthier version so I swapped the oil for 1/4 coconut oil and 3/4 applesauce and 1/2 cup coconut sugar and 2/3 cup organic honey. I used 2 tsp cinnamon and 1/2 tsp allspice. I also added 1 cup chopped pecans and 1 cup shredded coconut for extra fiber and flavor. These muffins are awesome!
Awesome to hear that.
Wow… I have been testing out a lot of muffin recipies lately and these are terrific. Probably the best recipe I have found. Thank you!
So good hearing that.