Friday, October 3, 2014

apple cinnamon muffin

Last nite I asked my daughter what she would like for breakfast and she said muffins. I started thinking "what kind of muffin should I make?" After a couple of minutes of head scratching, I decided to google for cinnamon muffin. As usual, most of the recipes had too much sugar. Of the first 10 results returned by google, most of them had 1/2-1 cup of sugar. I have to ask "Why?" With all that sugar, you'd hide the apple's natural sweetness and over power the tartness of the apple.

2 cups flour (I use kamut)
2 eggs
2 tbsp butter
1/8 cup honey
1 cup milk
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2-3 tsp cinnamon
1 granny smith apple

Preheat the oven at 375. Chop the apple into tiny cubes, or what ever size you prefer. Combine the dry ingredients with the apple and stir. In a separate bowl mix egg, butter and milk. Pour the wet mixture into the dry and stir until it comes together.

Put the dough into your muffin pan. I like to use muffin cups. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown. This time I used 2 tsp of cinnamon, but next time I plan to use 3. That should give it an extra kick.