Recently I decided that I wanted to make some muffins. This would be great, but generally muffins are loaded with calories and fat and I'm trying to eat well.
I found
this recipe on
LJ's bakebakebake community. It's a pretty healthy and quite cheap apple muffin recipe which I ended up modifying slightly.
One thing to note, is that if you are using a silicone muffin tray, this recipe only just yields 5 nice sized muffins. It may yield more in a metal pan. Or maybe it's just that the apple I used was rather small. I don't know. The muffins came out great though. Heavy and not too sweet. Perfect for breakfast.
Easy apple muffins
Ingredients:
- 1 apple (peeled and grated)
- 1 egg (beaten)
- 2.5 tablespoons demerera sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 9 tablespoons plain flour (approx)
preheat oven to 170c/325f/GM3
Sift baking powder and flour
Mix apple, egg, sugar and cinnamon. Do not use an electric hand whisk/mixer, a wooden spoon is fine.
Add wet to dry and mix until incorporated. Try not to beat or
over mix, it makes the muffins the wrong texture.
Spoon mixture into muffin cups 3/4 full to full depending on the size muffin you want. I filled the cups and ended up with medium muffins.
If using a metal muffin pan, don't forget to oil/grease it before adding the mixture. Silicon ones, remember to fill any spare cups with water and stand on a baking tray in the oven.
Bake for 20 minutes or until golden. Insert a skewer into the tops. If it comes out clean they're done! With my old gas oven it took 25 minutes.
Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then take out and cool on a wire rack.
These would probably be pretty easy to make with kids, and they would be a great not too sugary treat!
