Apple Muffin

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 12 | Cook: 30min
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Looking for a tasty snack that can also be healthy thanks to the many minerals in apples? This apple muffin is just the thing.

Ingredients

  • 1 large apple
  • 1 splash Lemon juice
  • 155 g whole wheat flour
  • 155 g spelt flour
  • 2.5 tsp baking powder
  • 0.5 tsp Baking soda
  • 3 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 egg
  • 160 g raw cane sugar
  • 80 ml Rapeseed oil
  • 1 pinch Vanilla powder
  • 250 ml buttermilk
  • 30 g Ground Almonds
  • 90 g soft butter
  • 2 tsp powdered sugar made from raw cane sugar

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Line the depressions of a muffin tin with paper liners.

  2. 2.

    Wash, halve, core and dice the apple. Drizzle with lemon juice. In a bowl combine 130 g each of the flours, baking powder, baking soda, 2 tsp cinnamon and the apple pieces.

  3. 3.

    In another bowl whisk the egg, add 100 g sugar, oil, vanilla powder and buttermilk; mix well. Add the dry ingredients and stir briefly until just combined.

  4. 4.

    For the streusel, rub together remaining flour, almonds, remaining sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon and soft butter by hand to form crumbs.

  5. 5.

    Fill the muffin tin cavities with batter, sprinkle with streusel and bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (fan 160 °C; gas 2–3) for about 30 minutes.

  6. 6.

    Let the apple muffins rest in the pan for another 5 minutes, then lift them out of the liners and dust with powdered sugar before serving.