Need a healthy alternative for breakfast? Try these cinnamon apple muffins! This recipe is easy to make and your entire family will love them. Add these muffins to your meal plan today. I make them in a mini muffin pan so they are in bite sized portions but the recipe will work in a regular sizes muffin tin as well. Whip up a batch and enjoy!
Cinnamon Apple Muffins
Ingredients:
Muffins
- 1 cup peeled and diced apples
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Cinnamon Sugar Coating
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Peel and chop apples coarsely. Add them to a food processor and pulse until they are diced fine.
- Add apples to a bowl with lemon juice, milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and butter. Mix well.
- Add the oats to a food processor and pulse until a fine dust.
- In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients of pulsed oats, flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking powder.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry slowly stirring to combine.
- Use a non-stick cooking spray to coat your mini muffin cups.
- Fill muffin cups 3/4 full with the mixture.
- Bake for 10 – 12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool about 10 minutes.
- Brush with the 2 tablespoons of melted butter for the coating.
- Add cinnamon and sugar to a bowl.
- Put your muffins in the bowl.
- Add a lid and shake to coat.
- Enjoy these cinnamon apple muffins with your family!
This healthy recipe is one that the whole family will love. They can grab a few of these on their way out the door in the mornings. Keep them on hand for snacking as well. Y’all enjoy and make a batch of cinnamon apple muffins today!
Love this and want more apple recipes? Try the links below!
- Caramel Apple Cookies
- Caramel Apple Cheesecake
- Skillet Caramel Apple Pie
- Cake Mix Apple Cobbler
- Plus 3o more apple recipes here!
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Cinnamon Apple Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup peeled and diced apples
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Peel and chop apples coarsely. Add them to a food processor and pulse until they are diced fine.
- Add apples to a bowl with lemon juice, milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and butter. Mix well.
- Add the oats to a food processor and pulse until a fine dust.
- In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients of pulsed oats, flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking powder.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry slowly stirring to combine.
- Use a non-stick cooking spray to coat your mini muffin cups.
- Fill muffin cups 3/4 full with the mixture.
- Bake for 10 - 12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool about 10 minutes.
- Brush with the 2 tablespoons of melted butter for the coating.
- Add cinnamon and sugar to a bowl.
- Put your muffins in the bowl.
- Add a lid and shake to coat.
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Nutter Butter Christmas Cookies (Easy!)
Ingredients
Nutter Butter Snowman Christmas Cookies
- 16 ounces Nutter Butter cookies or a smaller package
- white candy coating
- mini M&Ms
- black non-pareils
- orange sprinkles
Santa Nutter Butter Cookies
- white candy coating
- mini chocolate chips
- white sugar pearls
- mini M&Ms
- red sugar
- 16 ounces Nutter Butter cookies
Elf Nutter Butter Cookies
- white candy coating
- mini chocolate chips
- white sugar pearls
- mini M&Ms
- green sugar
- black writing icing
- Nutter Butter cookies
Nutter Butter Reindeer Cookies
- chocolate candy coating
- mini M&Ms
- candy eyes
- pretzels
- Nutter Butter cookies
Instructions
Snowman Cookies
- Melt the candy coating according to the package directions. Coat the cookies with white candy coating. Lay on waxed or parchment paper.
- Add on M&M buttons, nonpareils smile and eyes, and sprinkle nose while the candy coating is still wet. Allow setting before serving or packaging.
Santa Cookies
- Melt the candy coating according to the package directions. Coat the cookies with white candy coating on both ends only. Dip top in red sugar leaving a small white band. Lay on waxed or parchment paper.
- Add on M&M nose, chocolate chip eyes, and white pearl ball for the hat using additional candy coating. Allow setting before serving or packaging.
How to Make Elf Nutter Butter Cookies Recipe
- Melt the candy coating according to the package directions. Coat the cookies with white candy coating on one end only. Dip in green sugar leaving a small white band. Lay on waxed or parchment paper.
- Add on M&M nose, chocolate chip eyes, and white pearl ball for the hat using additional candy coating. Draw on a mouth with black writing icing. Allow setting before serving or packaging.
Christmas Reindeer Cookies
- Melt the candy coating according to the package directions. Coat these cookies with chocolate candy coating. Lay on waxed or parchment paper. Add on pretzel antlers, candy eyes, and M&M nose while the candy coating is still wet. Allow setting before serving or packaging.
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Wish we had some of those right now, hungry for healthy snack. These sure look and sound quite tasty, and healthy too? Saved this recipe for when I have more ink.
Thanks for sharing his recipe.
Sounds yummy! Pinned!!
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I am such a big fan of muffins – I will be trying these out! 🙂 Great post!
-Jenna <3
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They looks so delicious!
These look really good… they look like a comfort food. 🙂
These look scrumptious! What a fun and healthy treat.
Hi Angie, this would fit perfectly in Food on Friday: July under the apple theme. Hope you bring it on over to share with everybody. Cheers from Carole’s Chatter
We will love your muffins, I like the cinnamon and apple combination. I sure appreciate you sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday. Have a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
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Miz Helen
Cinnamon plus apple..Looks yummy and healthy too. Cinnamon is known for many health benefits and with apple, it become healthier. I am going to try this recipe.