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Apple Fritter Muffins

Published Jun 8, 2015 by Allyson
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Baked Apple Fritter Muffins are filled with delicious tender apples, brown sugar, and topped with a dreamy glaze. Perfect option for baking, not frying!

I am sure I have mentioned it before, but I am a regular contributor over at my friend, Shannah's blog, Just Us Four.  She lets me share a recipe every month with her readers, and it's pretty awesome.  I shared these Apple Fritter Muffins a few months ago, and now I am going to share them with you, too!  I usually share desserts, but I kind of fibbed a bit with this one...I know maybe these aren't technically a dessert…a muffin is for breakfast, right? So you can eat these for breakfast and not feel guilty that you are really eating a cupcake, right? These are filled with delicious apples, brown sugar, and cinnamon…so yum.  I love apple fritters;  I love the crispy crust and the moist apple chunks when you bite inside of them…but, I don’t love that they are fried.  I was excited to make these a tiny bit healthier by baking, not frying, and I didn't lose any of the deliciousness.

Baked Apple Fritter Muffins are filled with delicious tender apples, brown sugar, and topped with a dreamy glaze. Perfect option for baking, not frying!

I know maybe these aren’t the most attractive muffins, but you can’t really expect the sky high muffin top when you have a bunch of apples resting on the filling! But, one good thing about this is that the overage from the filling mix, kind of seeped onto the baking tin, and it crisped up the sides a bit…giving it a little subtle crunch to resemble the fried version even more.

Baked Apple Fritter Muffins are filled with delicious tender apples, brown sugar, and topped with a dreamy glaze. Perfect option for baking, not frying!

After I broke one of these bad boys open, I pretty much couldn’t wait to inhale eat one. It was sweet, yet not overpowering; the apples were tender and delicious, and the ‘cake’ part of the muffin was moist and the perfect companion to the apples. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the GLAZE.  Swirling some creamy icing glaze on top really puts these over the edge. Perfection.

Baked Apple Fritter Muffins are filled with delicious tender apples, brown sugar, and topped with a dreamy glaze. Perfect option for baking, not frying!

I told you I couldn’t wait to eat it. Work hazard. It won’t be long until there are a bunch of other empty wrappers scattered about.

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Apple Fritter Muffins
Ingredients
Ingredients for the batter
  • ½ cup butter softened
  • ⅔ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ cup whole or 2% milk
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • Ingredients for the Apples
  • 2 large granny smith apples peeled and chopped
  • 2 TBS granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Ingredients for the Glaze
  • ½ cup of powdered sugar
  • 2 TBS milk
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or in a bowl with an electric mixer), combine butter and ⅔ cup sugar' mix until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla, mix. Removing the bowl from the stand mixer, add the flour and baking powder, and stir by hand with a wooden spoon or spatula until just combined. Add the milk and using a fork, stir until well incorporated and smooth. Set aside.
  3. Place apple pieces into a medium sized bowl and sprinkle 2 TBS sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon over the top. Toss well with hands until evenly coated. Set aside.
  4. In a small bowl combine ¼ cup brown sugar and ½ teaspoon cinnamon. Use a fork to get all the chunks out and mix well, set aside.
  5. Spray a 12 muffin tin with nonstick spray and line with cupcake wrappers (optional, but definitely spray regardless). Place a heaping TBS of batter into the bottom of the wrapper, top with a heaping TBS of apples, sprinkle brown sugar/cinnamon over the top of apples (about 1 tsp), then top with another heaping TBS of batter. Finish with a regular TBS of apples over the top of the batter. Repeat for all muffins.
  6. Place in center of preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes or until cooked through. Put a toothpick into the middle and it should come out without moist batter on it.
  7. In a small bowl mix powdered sugar and 2 TBS milk. Drizzle over the top of the muffins and serve!
Recipe Notes

You could also make this as a bread, just cook in a loaf pan for 50-60 minutes, testing after 50 minutes with a toothpick.

Like muffins and cake? Check out some of my other recipes:

Lemon Blueberry Breakfast Cake

Cranberry Walnut Bread is delicious and festive for the holidays. This bread is so tasty and wrapped up would make the perfect gift!   Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls are the perfect fall brunch! Sweet apples with a ooey gooey cream cheese glaze, yum!

The Best EVER Banana Bread Recipe

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- Allyson

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Comments

  1. Kathryn Doherty

    June 08, 2015 at 7:25 am

    Oh my, YUM! These sound so delicious. I love apple anything and we eat a ton of muffins around here. Great combo!

    Reply
    • Allyson

      June 08, 2015 at 9:58 am

      Thanks, Kathryn!

      Reply
  2. Thalia @ butter and brioche

    June 25, 2015 at 11:37 pm

    Love a good apple flavoured muffin! These look great & I so wish I had one with my cup of tea now.

    Reply
  3. jill

    June 26, 2015 at 12:16 am

    Hi, just made these! Looks like you might have a typo - is the temperature meant to be 305 or 350? We baked them at 305 thinking "huh, that's a weird temperature" and they're a little on the raw side. Just FYI for any other apple-fritter-muffin-makers!

    Reply
    • Allyson

      June 28, 2015 at 9:34 am

      Oh no! I am so sorry, that is definitely a typo - I'm going to correct that right now. Sorry again and thank you for pointing that out!

      Reply
  4. Andrea Giang | Cooking with a Wallflower

    June 26, 2015 at 1:16 am

    These muffins sound so delicious and the perfect way to start my morning!

    Reply
  5. Bill

    October 08, 2022 at 3:34 pm

    Can you use gluten free flour?

    Reply

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