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Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping Recipe

Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping will be the highlight of your day. Sweet apples with a crunchy cinnamon topping will make your breakfast…

Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping Photo
(Stacey Mebs)

I think fall is my favorite time of year to bake. Apples and pumpkin are two of my favorite things, and I just can’t get enough of them in the fall. I feel like baking pretty much all the time.

It’s unfortunate that my family can’t survive on muffins and scones and cookies. There’s definitely a lot of that stuff around my house these days!

Am I the only one? Or is that pretty common, to suddenly want to bake all the things as soon as the weather turns a little bit cooler? Maybe it’s because I can finally turn my oven on without turning my house into a sauna!

Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping Picture
(Stacey Mebs)

That, and the bags and bags of apples I have sitting in my freezer begging to be made into things like these apple muffins with a cinnamon crumb topping!

Every year my siblings give me buckets of apples from their trees. They get so many that they can’t even use them all. So, I chop and core apples incessantly for a few days and end up with boatloads of apples ready to bake within my freezer.

I was actually planning on planting an apple tree in my yard next year, but as I wrote that I started to think that maybe I shouldn’t! I already have enough apples to last me for months, and I don’t even have a tree! Might have to rethink that plan….

Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping Image
(Stacey Mebs)

I guess we will see how quickly we fly through them this year and then decide.

These apple muffins disappeared in less then two days though, so clearly we are going to have to make them again!

It might not be a problem using up all those apples after all.

Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping Pic
(Stacey Mebs)

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Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping Photo

Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping Recipe

Stacey Mebs
Apple Muffins with Crumb Topping will be the highlight of your day. Sweet apples with a crunchy cinnamon topping will make your breakfast…
3 from 168 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 17 minutes
Total Time 37 minutes
Servings 12 1 muffin
Calories 368 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 3 tablespoons Granulated Sugar
  • 3 tablespoons Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour Plus 3 tablespoons
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
  • pinch Salt
  • 5 tablespoons Unsalted Butter Melted
  • 1 cup Peeled and Chopped Apples
  • 3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 2 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 teaspoons Cinnamon
  • 2 large Egg
  • 4 tablespoons Unsalted Butter Melted
  • 1/4 cup Canola Oil
  • 1 cup Milk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
  • 1 cup Powdered Sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Milk

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 425°F. Lightly spray a 12-cup muffin tin with non-stick spray, or line it with paper liners and set aside.
  • Make the crumb topping – in a small bowl, combine the sugar, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt. Drizzle the melted butter over everything and stir until everything is combined and clumping together. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In another bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, melted butter and oil until well combined. Add the milk and vanilla and whisk until combined. Add this mixture to the flour mixture and stir until just combined.
  • Add the apples, folding in gently, until just combined.
  • Scoop the muffin batter into the prepared muffin tin, dividing it between the 12 muffin cups. They should be almost full. Top the muffins with crumb topping, dividing the mixture between the 12 muffin cups.
  • Bake for 17-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool for 5-10 minutes in the muffin tin, and then remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
  • In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar and milk until smooth to make the glaze. Drizzle the glaze over top of the cooled muffins.

Nutrition

Calories: 368kcalCarbohydrates: 50gProtein: 5gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 6gSodium: 217mgFiber: 1gSugar: 24g
Keyword Apples, Baked, Baking, Breakfasts, Brunches, Fall, Family Meals and Snacks, Lunchbox, Muffins
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