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Cinnamon Apple Muffins

Tender, moist muffins packed with juicy apple bits and warm cinnamon under a crackly cinnamon-sugar top.

Cinnamon Apple Muffins

Ingredients

  • 2 cups250 gAll-purpose flour
  • ½ cup packed120 gBrown sugarpacked
  • 1½ tbsp20 gGranulated sugarfor topping
  • 1¾ tsp8 gBaking powder
  • ¾ tsp3 gBaking soda
  • ½ tsp3 gSalt
  • 2¾ tsp7 gGround cinnamondivided
  • ½ tsp1 gGround nutmeg
  • 2 large100 gEggsroom temperature
  • ¾ cup180 gUnsweetened applesauce
  • ½ cup (120 ml)120 gApple juice, unsweetened
  • ¼ cup60 gCanola oil
  • 1¼ tsp5 gVanilla extract
  • 1 medium180 gApplepeeled and finely diced

Steps

  1. Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and most of the cinnamon, saving about a teaspoon of cinnamon for the topping.
  3. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, applesauce, apple juice, canola oil and vanilla until smooth.
  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and fold gently with a spatula until just combined; a few streaks of flour are fine. Fold in the apple.
  5. Divide the batter evenly among the cups. Stir the sugar with the reserved cinnamon and sprinkle over the tops.
  6. Bake 18 to 22 minutes, until the tops spring back and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  7. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then move the muffins to a rack and cool at least 15 minutes before serving.

Food safety: Don't taste raw dough or batter: raw flour and raw eggs can carry germs.

Contains: Egg, Gluten.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 19, 2026.

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