These Easy Apple Muffins are hands down one of our favorite fall bakes. Baked with delicious aromatic cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg, these muffins are cozier than your favorite fall sweater. Plus we made some subtle healthy swaps to keep these muffins whole grain and naturally sweetened.
Ingredients for Apple Muffins
- Apples – you can’t go wrong with any type of apple in this recipe. We especially love Fuji or honey crisp apples because they shred wonderfully and are crisp and sweet.
- Rolled oats – an easy and more nutrient dense whole grain substitute that keeps these muffins crumbly.
- Almond meal – we pack in a little extra healthy fats with almond meal. It modifies the texture slightly to be more crumbly than fluffy, but it’s perfect for this fall bake.
- Maple syrup – we love a chance to use this lower glycemic index natural sweetener in our fall bakes. It lends a subtle maple flavor to these muffins that’s incredibly cozy!
- Reduced fat butter/margarine – we use olive oil or flax seed oil-based butters that keep the fat content down but still add delicious buttery flavor.
- Egg – for binding the ingredients together.
- Fall spices – cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger round out this recipe with extra coziness.
- Pecans – the perfect crunchy addition to these muffins.
How to Make Apple Muffins
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with muffin tins or lightly mist with cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, combine rolled oats, almond meal, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, ginger, and salt.
In a second medium mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, apple, maple syrup, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Make a small well in the dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix well to combine. Fold in the chopped pecans.
Spoon the muffin batter into the prepared muffin tins, filling about ¾ of the way. These muffins only raise slightly, so it is okay to fill the tins most of the way.
Bake the muffins for 16 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with just a few crumbs clinging to it. Cool in the muffin tin about 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Enjoy with apple butter!
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Check out our other hearty fall bakes:
- Healthy Apple Cobbler Muffins
- Apple Cinnamon Oat Muffins
- Healthy Pumpkin Muffins
- Baked Apple Cider Donuts
- Healthy Apple Butter
Easy Apple Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 c rolled oats
- 1 c almond meal
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 c grated apple (about 2 medium apples)
- ½ c pure maple syrup
- 6 Tbsp reduced fat butter or unsalted butter (olive oil or flax seed butter)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ c chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with muffin tins or lightly mist with cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine rolled oats, almond meal, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, ginger, and salt.
- In a second medium mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, apple, maple syrup, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Make a small well in the dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix well to combine. Fold in the chopped pecans.
- Spoon the muffin batter into the prepared muffin tins, filling about ¾ of the way. These muffins only raise slightly, so it is okay to fill the tins most of the way.
- Bake the muffins for 16 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with just a few crumbs clinging to it. Cool in the muffin tin about 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Enjoy with apple butter!
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