Apple & Cinnamon Muffins

This weekend a good friend of mine came over for breakfast & I thought something different like apple & cinnamon muffins would be fun.  It turned out that they were her favourite, so we made them together, and they went down well.  It’s a simple recipe that doesn’t take too long.  The only thing that is a bit time consuming is the stewing of the apples.

INGREDIENTS:

Batter:

120g butter

1 cup castor sugar

2eggs

10ml baking powder

2ml salt

2 cups cake flour

125ml milk

zest of 1 lemon/orange

60ml lemon/orange juice

Apple & Cinnamon mix:

4 apples

4tbsp brown sugar

2 tbsp cinnamon

METHOD:

• Peel and cut apples into small cubes, then place them in a pot with the sugar and cinnamon.  Stir until apple are soft.
• Heat oven at 180ºC.
• Grease muffin tray.
• Add orange/lemon juice & zest to milk (it will curdle, this is fine).
• In electric mixer, whisk butter until creamy.  Add sugar and beat until pale and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each.
• Beat in the baking powder and salt.
• With spoon, fold in half of the flour and then half of the milk into the batter; repeat.
• Fold in apple & cinnamon mix.
• Spoon into muffin tray.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
• Remove muffins from tray and place on cooling rack.

Makes 12 cupcake sizes or 6 muffin sizes.

Side note:

It may look like it has curdled but that’s just form the juice and zest, no need to worry.

Depending on how much of a citrus taste you want you can adjust the lemon/orange juice.

Let me know if you try this recipe.

Le’Chelle