Yesterday morning I woke up wanting to bake something easy and delicious for breakfast. Muffins were the first thing to come to mind but then came the hard part: What kind? I was out out of blueberries thanks to my berry pie. Blueberry muffins are my all time favorite but I had to think outside the box...Then it hit me, I have applesauce, something most people have in their pantry! I searched google and ended up putting together a few different recipes and picking and choosing to what would suit what I had around.
These turned out to be flavorful, warm, comforting and a bit fall-like (would be awesome with pumpkin!) They were perfect with the added crumble for the extra texture and super easy to make and bake. We're even eating the leftovers for breakfast this morning!
* You can certainly "healthify" these muffins up with half whole wheat flour and half AP flour, add chunks of cut up apples or raisins, less sugar if your applesauce is sweetened already, only egg whites if wanted. You could also leave off the crumble, but as previously stated - I am a serious sucker for crumble toppings. You could even turn these into apple spice cupcakes with cream cheese icing instead of the crumble! I would trade my crumble in for that...
* You can certainly "healthify" these muffins up with half whole wheat flour and half AP flour, add chunks of cut up apples or raisins, less sugar if your applesauce is sweetened already, only egg whites if wanted. You could also leave off the crumble, but as previously stated - I am a serious sucker for crumble toppings. You could even turn these into apple spice cupcakes with cream cheese icing instead of the crumble! I would trade my crumble in for that...
What You'll Need:
(It looks like a lot of ingredients but there's a alot of spices - they are spice muffins!)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 c canola oil
- 1 egg white and 1 whole egg
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1/2 t ginger
- 1/2 t clove
-1/2 t nutmeg
- (I added a sprinkle of all spice because I love it's warmth)
- 1/2 t salt
- 1 t baking soda
- 1 c applesauce
- 2 c flour
- 2 T flour
- 2 T butter
- 1/4 c light brown sugar
- 3 T oats
- 1/2 t cinnamon
What You'll Need to Do:
- Preheat oven to 325. Spray 12 cup muffin pan with no stick spray
- Cream together sugar, canola, and eggs. Mix in spices, and applesauce. In a separate small bowl whisk together the flour, salt and baking soda. Add that into the wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
- In the bowl you used for the flour mixture (save yourself some dishes!) combines the 2T flour, 2T softened butter, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 3T oats and 1/2 t cinnamon.
- Pour batter into muffin cups. Mine were filled about 3/4 of the way. Sprinkle crumble evenly over muffins. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until set.
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