Simply Irresistible! Fluffy, buttery, white cake muffins loaded with chunks of apples and layers of brown sugar and cinnamon swirled inside and on top.
What’s not to like? Just wait! You should smell the cinnamon, apples and vanilla cake when it’s baking.
O. M. G. Words cannot even come close to describe these amazing apple fritter muffins, but they are so heavenly.
If you want to bake this in the loaf pan, click here for the bread recipe. I love to bake! And if you love to bake and enjoy nibbling on wonderful, succulent muffins, you really need to make this! It won’t disappoint, I promise.
You’ll be drooling before it’s even out of the oven…
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Country Apple Fritter Muffins
Ingredients
Muffins
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2/3 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 apples any kind, peeled and chopped , mixed with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Old-Fashioned Creme Glaze
- 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
- 1-3 tablespoons of milk or cream- depending on thickness of glaze wanted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a muffin pan and spray with non-stick spray or use cupcake liners.
- Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Set aside.
- In another medium-sized bowl, beat white sugar and butter together using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
- Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until blended in; add in vanilla extract.
- Combine & whisk flour and baking powder together in another bowl and add into creamed butter mixture and stir until just blended.
- Mix milk into batter until smooth.
- In each muffin cup, fill each tin 1/2 full of the cake batter; add 1 tablespoon of the apple/sugar mixture on top. Add your brown sugar/cinnamon mixture that you prepared in the beginning and top each muffin again by sprinkling the brown/sugar/cinnamon mixture between the 12 muffins.Lightly pat apple mixture into batter.
- Pour the remaining batter over each of the apple layers and spread out with a butter knife, then top each muffin with remaining apples. Lightly pat apples into batter again.
- Option: Swirl brown sugar mixture through apples using knife or spoon.(I did this with the Apple Fritter Bread on the blog, but not these muffins.)
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the muffin comes out clean, approximately 20-25 minutes.
- To make glaze, mix powdered sugar and milk or cream together until well mixed.
- Let cool for about 15 minutes before drizzling with glaze.
I had bought 1/2 of Golden delicious apples from a fundraiser so I tripled this recipe and made muffins both large and small and a square loaf cake. I shared the baked items with my friends and family. Everyone loved tot. It is so amazingly delicious and super easy to make it. Peeling the apples and baking took the longest but you will love it. I have everyone wanting the recipe. I actually had extra diced apples mixture and brown sugar so I froze them to use in a cakes. I cooked my items a little longer but I think that varies on your oven. Thanks for sharing this recipe
Sorry about the typos…. it should say 1/2 crate of apples and I froze the extra apple mixture and brown sugar mixture to use in pancakes
So happy to hear everyone loved it Anita! Thank you so much for sharing your experience with me! I really appreciate it! Happy Holidays to your and your family!
I had some apples that needed using up and my stash of muffins in the freezer ran out so it seemed like the perfect time to try these muffins. They were so easy to put together, peeling and slicing the apples took the longest actually lol. Though my apples must have been larger than the ones you used, I had doubled the recipe so i chopped up 4 apples and even though I really added a lot to each muffin I still had nearly half left over. If I had had a 3rd muffin pan I would have just made another batch. The brown sugar and cinnamon mixture sort of melted on the apples creating a bit of a caramel flavor. These are soo good, might have to buy more apples when these start to run low lol
I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed them Jane! Thank you so much for commenting and wanting to make them again, that’s so awesome! xo
Jane did these hold up well in your freezer? I am considering making them for Christmas morning? Dud you precook them and let them thaw or did you prepare in muffin pans and freezer.; then cooking when thawed? I appreciate any feedback as I have never frozen muffins
I bake them, transfer muffins to a wire rack to cool. When completely cool, wrap tightly in plastic wrap or aluminum foil and place in a resealable freezer bag. Seal tightly.
Muffins will keep frozen for up to 3 months. To prepare: Remove the muffins from the freezer, carefully unwrap them, and let thaw at room temperature. To serve warm, reheat the unwrapped muffins in the microwave for 30 to 45 seconds on HIGH. Or heat oven to 400F, place the foil-wrapped muffins on a baking sheet, and warm for 10 to 15 minutes. Hope this helps Anita! Happy Holidays!
Just like your amazing Apple Fritter Loaf Cake but in portable muffin form!! Yesssss 🙂
Probably about the best muffins I have made in a long time. Did some tweaking. I used half butter half coconut oil. Added white chocolate chips to the batter. When layering I put some apples, walnuts and cinnamon mixture in muffin cups first. Then added 2/3 batter. Another layer of apples, walnuts and cinnamon topped with remaining batter. Then used an oatmeal crumble topping. When done baking and cooled I drizzled with a Carmel glaze. Yum!!!!