Applesauce Muffin Recipe

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You don’t need advanced baking skills to whip up amazing applesauce muffins – you just need me, the “muffin expert”! After 6 months developing and testing muffin recipes for my Muffin Cookbook, I have created the best applesauce muffin recipe with tall, bakery-style tops made in six simple steps.

Prep Time10

Cook Time25

Additional Time15

Total Time30

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apple muffin recipe, apple muffins, applesauce muffin recipe, applesauce muffins

Servings: muffins

Author: Beth

Equipment

Ingredients

3 cups (360g) all-purpose flour
1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 ½ cups (378g) applesauce unsweetened or regular
2 large eggs
¾ cup (177ml) vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
sanding sugar for topping muffins

Instructions

In a mixing bowl combine the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir together and set aside.
3 cups (360g) all-purpose flour, 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar, 3 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, 2 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp ground nutmeg
In a larger mixing bowl combine the applesauce, eggs, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract. Stir to combine.
1 ½ cups (378g) applesauce, 2 large eggs, ¾ cup (177ml) vegetable oil, 1 tsp vanilla extract
Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mixing just until combined. The batter will be very thick.
Cover the bowl with a towel and allow the batter to rest for 15 minutes. During this time, preheat the oven to 425ºF / 220ºC.
For bakery style muffins, line a 12 count muffin pan with 6 muffin liners, meaning you’ll only fill every other muffin well with batter. Fill the liners with 6-8 heaping tablespoons of batter. Sprinkle the tops with sanding sugar.
sanding sugar
Place one pan in the center of the oven and bake for 7 minutes at 425ºF / 220ºC, then keep the muffins in the oven, turn the temperature down to 350ºF / 180ºC and bake for 13-17 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool in the pan. Repeat with the remaining batter, bumping the temperature back up to 425ºF / 220ºC.

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