Applesauce Spice Muffins

Submitted by Olha7397

"Of all the apple muffin recipes, this is one of the lightest and tastiest. It comes from Thornbury, Ontario, in the heart of Georgian Bay apple country."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1⁄2 cup raisins or 1/2 cup currants
• 1⁄2 cup chopped almonds, pecans or 1/2 cup freshly shelled walnuts
• 1 cup unsweetened applesauce

• TOPPING

• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

directions

1. Grease or line 12 large muffin cups and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar; beat in egg.
3. Stir together flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
4. Combine with raisins and almonds.
5. Stir dry ingredients into the batter in 3 parts, alternating with the applesauce in 2 parts.
6. Mix just until blended.
7. Transfer to muffin cups, almost filling each cup.
8. TOPPING: Combine all topping ingredients and spoon equally over muffins.
9. Bake at 375 F.
10. for 20 minutes or until well risen and firm to the touch.
11. Let cool on a rack and serve for breakfast or snacks.
12. Makes 12 big muffins.
13. 150 Classic Canadian Recipes.

Reviews

[mianbao]

These muffins are very nice. I like the level of spiciness, and they are quite light. The sugar on top adds to the sweetness. Personally, I would rather eat them as snacks than as part of breakfast, but we are all different. I did substitute dried cranberries for raisins and nuts. Thank you very much for sharing this recipe with us.

 

[LucyS-D]

Very good muffins. I had all the ingredients on hand and followed the recipe exactly, except I use Sugar in the Raw and not granulated white sugar.

 

[Jenna 72]

This is a great recipe.. came out perfect and great tasting...You can't go wrong with this one. Fantastic!

 

[Boyz 5]

Olga,Olga,Olga!!!These were fantastic!!!I had to improvise,though.I realized that I didn't have enough brown sugar so I had to use white.I also decided to omit the raisins and almonds.In any case,they turned out moist and marvelous!!Thanks for a great recipe!!