Ingredients:
5 T butter (softened)
7 T applesauce, un-sweetened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 milk (or soy milk)
1 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
1 cup fruit
1 T flour
2 T sugar
Directions:
preheat oven to 400 degrees
1. Cream butter, apple sauce, and sugar
2. Add egg and mix with any extra flavoring (spices, extract, zest)
3. In a separate bowl sift flour, baking soda and salt.
4. Add half the flour and mix, then half the milk, mix, the rest of the flour, mix and the end of the milk, mix.
5. In the bowl that had the sifted flour add the fruit and toss with 1 T flour.
6. Mix fruit with batter and portion into 12 muffin tins with cups.
7. Top muffins with 2 T sugar.
8. Bake for 18-20 minutes, until tops are a light brown and spring back to touch.
serve with a cup of fresh coffee.... waking up was never sooo good!
Some of my favorite variations...
Razz-ma-Tazz Muffins: add 1/2 t vanilla, 1/2 t orange extract, zest of 1/2 orange, 1/4 t freshly grated nutmeg, and 1 cup of raspberries and blackberries.
Apple Spice Muffins: add 1 t vanilla, 1/2 T cinnamon, 1 heaping T pumpkin pie spice, 1/2 t ground ginger, 1 cup small diced apples peeled and "marinated" in orange juice. (after dicing apples put in a small bowl with orange juice to prevent from browning, drain off excess juice when ready to use). optional frosting: instead of sprinkling muffins with sugar make a festive pumpkin frosting by whipping 2 T butter, 2 T cream cheese, 3 T canned pumpkin, 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1/2 t vanilla.
Bountiful Blueberry Muffins: add 1 t vanilla, zest of one lemon, 1 cup of fresh or frozen blueberries.
* after a day or two store in air tight container in refrigerator, warm up under broil and top with some butter... simply amazing.
pictured: apple spiced muffin with pumpkin frosting
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