Sneak in one of these Apple Cinnamon Muffins into the kids or your lunch box for a delicious tea time snack.Filled with chunky apple pieces, flavored with cinnamon and topped with a crunchy oat streusel, these make a pretty good breakfast too, don't you think
Course Breakfast / Snack
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 15 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 12Muffins
Ingredients
FOR THE STREUSEL:
⅓cup/ 43 g all purpose/ cake flour
1tablespoonoats
½teaspooncinnamon
2tablespoons/ 25g brown sugar
2tablespoons/ 28g cold butter
FOR THE MUFFINS
DRY INGREDIENTS:
1 ½cups/ 180g all purpose / cake flour
2tablespoons/ 18g cornflour /cornstarch
1teaspoonbaking powder
¼teaspoonsalt
1teaspoonpowdered cinnamon
WET INGREDIENTS:
1 ¼cupbuttermilk
¼cupoil
2tablespoonsmaple / golden syrup
1teaspoonvanilla extract
⅓cup/ 66g brown sugar
1cup / about 3 small applespeeled, cored and chopped
TO MAKE THE GLAZE ( OPTIONAL)
¼cuppowdered / icing sugar
1teaspoonmaple / golden syrup
¼teaspoonboiling water
Instructions
TO MAKE THE STREUSEL:
Combine flour, oats, cinnamon and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Rub in the butter until crumbs form. Keep refrigerated while you make the muffins.
TO MAKE THE MUFFINS:
Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners.
Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Whisk together all wet ingredients in a jug, mix until the sugar is dissolved.
Fold the wet into the dry ingredients just until combined, do not overmix .
Fold in the apple chunks.
Divide the batter between the prepared muffin cups
Sprinkle over with ½ to 1 teaspoon of the cold streusel.
Bake in a preheated oven of 350°F/180°C for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing from the muffin pan and cooling on the rack completely.
Drizzle with glaze ( optional)
FOR THE GLAZE ( optional )
Mix powdered / icing sugar with boiling water and maple or golden syrup. Mix to a slightly thick pouring consistency and just drizzle over each muffin.