Apple Muffins
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 a tasty breakfast. If you want to make a healthy version of these apple muffins, replace the oil with applesauce.
APPLE MUFFINS
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
Green apples are often used in baking because their slightly tart flavor offsets the sweetness of the baked goods.
You want the apples diced 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 the muffin tins 3/4 of the way full. The muffins will rise a little but not a ton.
Sprinkle with brown sugar before baking.
The brown sugar crystalizes and makes a nice crunchy topping.
I wish you could see how incredibly moist these 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 healthier option, replace 1/2 the oil with applesauce.
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.
OTHER BREAKFAST MUFFINS:
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
- Blueberry Lemon Muffins
- Banana Crumb Muffins
- Apple Butter
- Blueberry Croissant Puff
- Apple Streusel Coffee Cake
- Apple Crisp Cream Danish
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 18 paper liners.
With a mixer, cream together sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla. The mixture should be a pale yellow.
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.
Fill paper liners almost to the top, about 3/4 of the way full. Sprinkle each muffin top generously with brown sugar.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20-24 minutes. Makes 18 muffins.
Recipe Notes
Source: Marissa Pinon
I took these muffins to a church book study and everyone just loved them. The recipe is very easy and the reward is great. I will definitely add this to my recipe box. Thank you.
Delicious!!!! While they were baking it smelled like cake ❤️ This recipe is a keeper. THANK YOU ❤️
You are so welcome!
This was so moist! Nice crumb structure. I’m glad the recipe addressed how thick the batter was. I had to force the last bit of dry mix in.
I cut back on the sugar – 1c white, 1/2 c brown, and it was sweet without being like a dessert. Skip the sugar topping, perfect for breakfast.
Glad you liked it!
I recently tried several apple muffin recipes after our apple picking adventure. This is by far my favorite and will be my ‘go-to’ recipe from now on. Followed the recipe exactly, but used only 1.5 cups of sugar. Perfection!
So glad you liked them.
I liked the fact this was a simple recipe and could make up quickly. But I don’t like the taste. Maybe it is just me but it’s fairly tasteless. Sorry. I also doubled the cinnamon, since I love the spice. Might try it again and put more spices in. Otherwise it is great and very moist!
Sorry you didn’t love it!
DELICIOUS EASY recipe! After reading comments about thick batter, I decided to add 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce. Batter was very easy to work with. This made 20 muffins, took about 24-25 min to bake and came out moist and filled with flavor. Sending to my daughters at school in a fall care package. Will definitely make again.
Awesome!
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How do you store these? Thinking of making for a school bake sale but want to make sure they’ll keep well!
I would place them in tupperware.
I literally just pulled them out the oven and they are excellent! As others have mentioned, the batter is very thick. They don’t rise much so next time I’ll fill the muffin cup more. I cut the sugar to 1.5 cups and they are definitely sweet enough, especially if you choose to use the brown sugar topping. They are more the consistency of an apple cake vs. a fluffy muffin. With my 2 1/2 pecks of apples from apple picking last week, I have been on an apple baking craze! This recipe makes the cut and will for sure make an appearance again in our house!
Glad you liked them! Thank you.