APPLE STRUDEL MUFFINS

Connor's first morning here and I wanted to make something special for breakfast while the boys battled it out on the playstation. After my sausage/cookie disaster this week, I needed to get back on the horse and quick! Let's hope the muffins turn out lovely and my kitchen confidence is restored. To be honest, the only thing I'm truely confident about is salads ( because I make them a lot ) - Practice makes perfect...

Here is the recipe....

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 cups chopped apples

Topping.
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin pan.
In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar and eggs until smooth. Mix in vanilla. Stir in apples, and gradually blend in the flour mixture. Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin pan.
In a small bowl, mix brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture is like coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over tops of mixture in muffin pan.

Bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Allow to sit 5 minutes before removing muffins from pan. Cool on a wire rack.


When I mixed the batter, I was a little worried as the mix didn't have the muffin consistency like other recipes I've made before. In the end, they looked and tasted more like an apple cake than a muffin but I guess anything made in a muffin tin would be considered a muffin. Steve suggested they tasted like Starbucks muffins- good enough! *smile*