Pumpkin Apple Muffins
Here's your October pumpkin fix! Warm spices and sweet apples. So moist they melt in your mouth. No need for cream cheese but halve them and spread some in the middle would be heavenly.
Ingredients
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice or ¼ tsp each of ground nutmeg, ground cloves, ground ginger and ½ tsp cinnamon
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg and 1 egg white, beaten
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 cups crisp, tart apples, peeled and chopped in ½ in cubes (about 2 cups) I used Granny Smith
- ¾ cup plain oatmeal
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and salt in a sifter or mesh sieve. Sift into a medium bowl and stir in the oatmeal.
- In large bowl combine all ingredients except walnuts and apples and use a whisk to mix well. I prefer not to use a mixer because it can over mix and make the muffins too dense and tough.
- Slowly in batches add the dry mixture to the wet. Stirring only enough to combine, then fold in nuts and apples.
- Either use greased muffin pans or paper muffin cups and fill them just to the top edge. Do not over fill.
- Bake for 30minutes or until firm when shaken. You can also use a toothpick in the middle if it comes out clean, they are done.