Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins
Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins is a vintage-style down-home recipe that’s perfect to spice up your day! These lovely muffins include chunks of apple, molasses and cinnamon providing texture and flavor that’s hard to beat. While I used Gala apples, you can use any apple you have on hand. I prefer sweeter apples and rarely use Granny Smiths or sour apples (even though they’re supposed to be better for baking). 😉
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I found this recipe in a Taste of Home cookbook featuring a recipe from the Washington Apple Commission. I thought it would be perfect to bring along to our Hostess Committee at church, one Sunday morning last fall. Yes, everyone wanted to try a bite! They really enjoyed the depth of flavor from the molasses and cinnamon. My husband likes fruit in any type of muffin/bread or cake. No dry food for him! These muffins turned out really well.
If you have an abundance of apples on hand, this is a great way to enjoy them and use them up! You can bake the muffins up in regular or miniature-sized muffin tins. They work well either way. Pass them out at potlucks, tailgating parties or anytime you have to sit through a sports practice with your kids. Yum.
Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins is an old-time, down-home, vintage recipe that everyone loves!
Every bite includes bits of apple along with cinnamon and molasses to flavor it.
You’ll be craving more after just one bite!
Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins will hit the spot!
Here’s what I did.
I used these ingredients.
Place unbleached flour in a mixing bowl (bleached flour toughens baked goods). Add granulated sugar, salt, baking powder and cinnamon.
Stir well to combine.
Add apple pieces.
Stir to combine; set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine oil, molasses, egg and half-and-half.
Whisk ingredients until well-combined.
Add molasses mixture to flour-apple mixture.
Stir ingredients, just until combined. Do NOT overmix the batter.
Spray muffin tins with cooking spray. Spoon batter into prepared muffin tins about 3/4 full.
Bake at 400 degrees for approximately 12-13 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Your oven may cook more quickly, start checking after 8 minutes.
Allow muffins to cool in pan about 5-10 minutes before removing to wire rack to cool completely. Transfer to serving basket or serving platter. (Or serve warm!
Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins are a great treat for a weekend breakfast.
If you enjoy apples, molasses and cinnamon together, these muffins will be perfect for you.
You can bake Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins in regular muffin tins or miniature muffin tins. Both turn out great.
Here’s the recipe.
CHUNKY APPLE MOLASSES MUFFINS
(Recipe adapted from Taste of Home, Brand Name Recipes, 2005, pg. 113, from the Washington Apple Commission)
Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins
Equipment
- 1 24-tin muffin pan (plus a smaller one for four more muffins)
- 1 large mixing bowl
- 1 medium mixing bowl
- 1 whisk
- 1 wooden spoon
- 1 paring knife to pare and dice apples
- 1 cutting board
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
Ingredients
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp. baking powder (tablespoon NOT teaspoon)
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt
- 2 cups Gala apples peeled, cored and diced (one large apple)
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
- 1/4 cup canola oil or avocado oil
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1 large egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Spray 28 miniature muffin tins with cooking spray; set aside.
- Combine flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large mixing bowl.
- Add apple and stir well to distribute apple evenly in flour mixture.
- Set aside.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine half-and-half, oil, molasses and egg and beat with a whisk until very well combined.
- Add wet mixture to dry mixture and stir just until ingredients are moistened.
- Fill miniature muffin tins with batter.
- Bake at 400° for about 12-13 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool muffins in tins for about 5 minutes before removing from pans.
- Serve warm.Â
Notes
Recipe adapted from Taste of Home, via the Washington Apple Commission.
 Taste of Home no longer has a search engine that allows you to search recipes by title. Most of the time, you have to weed through thousands of recipes in collections. If any link is to be found, I find direct links through google, not their own website. I could not locate a direct page for this recipe. But it is in the cookbook noted above. © Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen
You’ll enjoy every delicious bite of Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins.
This is a great recipe for a crowd or a holiday menu since it makes 24 miniature muffins.
Apples are terrific in muffins and this recipe is fantastic!
Chunky Apple Molasses Muffins will remind you of eating treats in Grandma’s kitchen. 🙂
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