These Apple Streusel Muffins are full of chopped apples, nutmeg, and cinnamon and covered in a sugary oat topping. You might not be able to eat just one!
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Ingredients
1 ½cupsall-purpose flour with 2 teaspoons reserved
⅓cup granulated sugar
2teaspoons baking powder
2teaspoonscinnamon
1teaspoonfreshly ground nutmeg
½teaspoonsalt
2largeeggsroom temperature
⅔cupShamrock Farms Organic Milk
¼cupcanola oil
Apples
2 cupschopped apple
2teaspoonsreserved flour
1teaspoongranulated sugar
¼teaspooncinnamon
Streusel Topping
¼ cuppacked brown sugar
3 tablespoonsoatseither quick-cook or rolled
2 tablespoonsall-purpose flour
2tablespoonsraw sugar
½teaspooncinnamon
¼ teaspoonnutmeg
⅛teaspoonground cloves
⅛ teaspoonsalt
3 tablespoonsbutterchilled
Instructions
Preheat oven to 450° F.
Streusel Topping
In a medium bowl, put the brown sugar, oats, flour, raw sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt. Mix together with a fork.
Using a pastry cutter or two knives, cut the chilled butter into the streusel mixture until it resembles coarse meal. Set aside.
Muffins
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour (saving the two reserved teaspoons), sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
In a medium bowl, lightly beat the eggs. Add the Shamrock Farms Organic Milk and the canola oil, and mix well.
Chopped Apples
In another medium bowl, place the two teaspoons of reserved flour, sugar and cinnamon. Add the apples and toss until all pieces are coated.
Add the wet ingredients all at once, as well as the chopped apples to the dry ingredients. With a rubber spatula, mix until just combined. It is ok if there is still some flour showing. You do not want to overmix the batter.
Prepare a 12-cup muffin tin by spraying it generously with cooking spray, a floured baking spray or use muffin liners. Divide the batter between the 12 cups.
Evenly sprinkle the streusel topping over the 12 muffins.
Bake for 5 minutes at 450°, then lower oven temperature to 400°. Bake for an additional 8-10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of each muffin comes out clean.
Allow muffins to cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 5-10 minutes before gently running a knife around the edges to remove.
Notes
For this recipe, you just want ONE and A HALF cups of flour, NOT 1 1/2 cups PLUS two additional teaspoons for the apples. After you've measured the one and a half cups into a bowl, just place two teaspoons into a second bowl to toss with the apples.