Apple Streusel Muffins Recipe

This apple streusel muffins recipe is an easy, reliable recipe for the most wonderful, flavourful apple muffins. They’re full of warm cinnamon flavours and bursting with pieces of delicious apple, and go down very well with a cup of coffee. Enjoy these muffins plain and unadorned or topped with a streusel topping, which adds glorious texture to these wonderful fruit muffins.

What you’ll like about this Apple Streusel Muffins Recipe

• Flavour – The flavour of these muffins is wonderful. Flavoured with cinnamon and apples, all enhanced by the caramelly notes of muscovado sugar, which captures the delicious flavours and textures of autumn.
• Texture – These muffins have that lovely muffin texture, denser than a cupcake but still light and airy. The apple pieces soften during baking, giving you little pieces of soft fruit when you bite into them.
• Difficulty – This recipe is easy. If you’re fairly new to baking, then this is a recipe for you. It includes a few steps: preparing the fruit and the streusel topping, and making the muffin batter, but there is nothing complicated to do. Like most muffin recipes,
  • this one is unfussy and is made as a batter. The batter is made by simply mixing the wet ingredients with the dry ones and combining. There’s no fuss involved. Stir until there are no dry ingredients clinging to the side of the bowl, and that’s as difficult as it gets. The batter is a little thicker than usual, but this is because the apples release moisture as they bake.
  • The apples are peeled, cored and diced small. I like to remove the skins first, apple skin can sometimes be unpleasant in small cakes – too chewy.
  • The streusel mixture, if you use it, and I hope you do, makes these muffins fantastic. It just requires mixing. It’s easy.
  • Spoon the mixture into the waiting muffin pan, top with the streusel and bake. Now all you have to do is wait for your reward of amazing muffins. They’re easy, simple and fast to make.

Cinnamon-spiced apple muffins: Ingredients

These muffins use everyday ingredients, making this a recipe that you can easily make again and again.

• Apples – the recipe specifies 1 – 2 medium eating apples. Varieties such as Pink Lady, Fuji, and Cox’s Orange Pippin are all good. They have a lovely, sweet flavour and keep a little bit of texture when baked. Cooking apples tends to disintegrate when cooked, which doesn’t produce as nice a result as eating apples do.
• Oats – rolled oats are included in the streusel topping. These add a little texture and a little goodness, too.
• Melted butter – this is used in the batter and the streusel topping. It adds a lovely flavour, but can be substituted with non-dairy margarine (suitable for baking) if needed.
• Milk, & eggs – the ‘wet ingredients’, which bring all the dry ingredients together to form a batter.
• Flour, baking powder – this recipe uses plain flour, also known as all-purpose flour. The baking powder helps the whole mixture to rise, so the muffins end up being light and fluffy

How to make Apple Streusel Muffins

This is really simple. The art of muffin making is to be a little bit relaxed about mixing the wet ingredients into the dry. If you’ve spent years ensuring that your cake and cupcake mixtures are silky smooth, then muffin batters may mean that you need to take a deep breath, connect with your inner muffin-maker and allow that batter to be lumpy. It’s just what nature (or the art of the muffin) requires.

• Gather up your ingredients so that you have everything to hand.
• Line your muffin tin with paper cases or grease it well so that the baked muffins can be removed from the pan easily after baking.
• Prepare the streusel topping before making the muffin batter so that when you’ve finished spooning muffin batter into the cases, it’s very quick to sprinkle the topping on top before baking.
• Peel and core the fruit. It’s tempting to leave the skin on, but often the skin remains quite chewy, which isn’t pleasant. So, remove the skin and chop your apple into small dice. This means that they’ll cook through nicely and be wonderfully soft in the baked muffin.
• Precise instructions are in the recipe below. However, it involves these steps: take 2 bowls. Into one, you combine the dry ingredients. In the other, you mix the wet ingredients. Follow this by mixing the wet mixture into the dry and stirring. It’s perfectly ok if the batter looks lumpy, and it really will be because of the little apple pieces, just make sure there is no dry flour visible.
• Finally, divide the mixture between the muffin cases, gently distribute the streusel topping over the muffins and pop into the oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Quick and simple.

The Streusel Topping for the Fruit Muffins

Adding a streusel topping to your muffins is obviously optional, but it is quite delicious. It is also known as a crumb. A streusel topping is just a simple topping, made with a few ingredients, that adds some sweetness and a little craggy texture. It is a lovely topping to use on any variety of fruit muffins. It removes the need for icing because they look pretty just as they are. What do you think?

Serving Apple Muffins

Sometimes you just want to eat your delicious apple muffin as it is, no fuss, no bother; other times, you might want to indulge yourself a little. How about serving your cinnamon-spiced fruit muffin with a dollop of Greek Yogurt? It works really well, as does a little single cream. Anything else might risk overwhelming the delicate flavours. What did you try?

Storing Muffins

All muffins are at their very best if eaten fresh. When they’re fresh, they’re wonderfully aromatic… light, fluffy, delicious. However, not everyone can devour a dozen homemade muffins in one sitting, so …

• Store in an airtight container and eat within two to three days.

If it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to eat them within a few days, then why not freeze some for later? These muffins freeze successfully.

• Freeze in an air-tight container or zip-lock bags. Remove from the freezer when needed and thaw on the work surface. Warming them briefly in the oven or microwave will restore these muffins beautifully to their former, freshly baked selves.

Hope you enjoy the muffins!

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