I make a lot of muffins. They are such easy snacks and everyone in our house devours them. I do try and keep them reasonably healthy, although we are definitely not a sugar free household, I have a super sweet tooth 🙂

Today’s recipe for Apple Maple Muffins comes from the Muffin Bible, a really cute book by Penguin Australia that my brother gave me when we bought our house 9 years ago. I use it all the time – and have now been starting to convert the recipes to Bellini/Thermie versions (so stay tuned for more muffiny goodness).

Ingredients

• 1 apple
• 75g butter
• 80g maple syrup (or ¼ cup)
• 2 egg whites
• 125g/ml milk
• 80g oats
• 50g sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 200g SR flour

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200⁰C.
2. Cut apple into quarters and place in jug. Chop for 7 sec, speed 5.
3. Set aside.
4. Cut butter into chunks and place in jug, melt for 2 min 30 sec at 60⁰C, speed 3.
5. Separate the eggs and add whites to butter in jug with milk and maple syrup.
6. Mix for 8 sec, speed 4.
7. Add all the dry ingredients; oats, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and flour. Mix for 8 sec, speed 3.
8. Mix in the apple by hand using a spatula.
9. Place into muffin trays and bake for 20-25 minutes at 200⁰C.
10. Let stand for a few minutes and then remove from pans to cool on a rack.

Tips

• You can add a glaze to drizzle over the muffins by mixing ¼ cup icing sugar with ½ tbsp of maple syrup.
• These are delicious and great for the kids as the oats make them extra filling.

Hope you enjoy this delicious snack. You can find other easy baking recipes in my ebook: Kate’s Thermo Cookbook available on iPad, iPhone and Android via Kindle now.

Thanks for reading,

Kate