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Apple spice muffins would taste sooooo good, I thought. I was surveying the kitchen trying to figure out how to use up some of our produce before our spring break. I had apples that were past their prime. I also noticed I had apple sauce and spice cake mix in the pantry. Hmmm, I tried out what I thought would work and it worked perfectly! It made 12 good sized flavorful muffins. With little chunks of slightly crunchy apples. I love the slight crunch of the apple pieces in the muffins.
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- 1 apple peeled and diced
- 2 cups apple sauce
- 1 box Spice cake
Ingredients
Three ingredients! I'm not kidding!!
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- Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit.
- Peel and chop apples so they are about 1/4 inch pieces. You don't need to be exact!
- Add chopped apples and a big teaspoon of cake mix into a bowl. Stir to cover apple bits. Set aside
- Add 2 cups of apple sauce to cake mix. I needed a mixer to combine well. About 2 minutes on medium.
- Add the cake mix coated apple bits to the dough.
- Stir together.
- Spray your muffin tin with Pam.
- Scoop a large scoop of dough into each muffin well. To about 3/4 full.
- Makes 12 nice sized muffins.
- Bake for about 18-20 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.
- Here they are, fresh oven!
These are really filling muffins. You’ll notice they are heavy. That would be from the real apple pieces. The apple sauce and the apple pieces guarantee that this recipe creates a moist muffin.
Can I tell you about a tool that I absolutely LOVE when making muffins? About 2 weeks go I purchased a big scoop. It makes portioning the dough so much easier and less messier. I always hated the drops of dough between the muffins wells. That doesn’t happen with this tool.
If you make muffins or cupcakes, treat yourself to one of these! I LOVE mine!!
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Can I use these ingredients for cookies? I would like to add raisins.
Can I use a gluten free mix?
You’re welcome! I also love using what I have at home already.
Thank you for the substitution suggestions. I’m a big believer in using what you have handy!
I found a great susitude if you don’t have 2 cups of applesauce use 1 cup applesauce 1/4 cup oil and 1 egg works great bake 20 min instead of the 16 to 18 minutes because of oil and egg..
I love to bake so I made these and they are absolutely delicious!!! We had slim pickings so I ended up using cinnimon applesauce and they were so good!
Can you make a cake with this recipe instead of muffins?
These are delicious! I always make pumpkin muffins this way but found I was out of canned pumpkin. I found your recipe, and used my homemade applesauce (a bit thicker than canned, sugar-free and cinnamon-y). I liked the apple chunks too, and added a few Hershey cinnamon chips which were perfect! People, if you have extra batter, make more muffins! They freeze well and you can take them out individually and microwave as needed.
Excellent and easy! I would definitely make again.
I just use regular muffin tins. It does make a fair amount of muffins. I have, occasionally had just a bit of batter left over.
So I made these but didn’t have an apple so left it out but I had enough batter leftover for a very small loaf pan. Do you use extra large muffin tins or did I do something wrong? I would think without the fresh apple I would have been a little shy. It’s not like this is an easy recipe to mess up on!
You always come up with the easiest recipes. There’s no excuses for not cooking when you make it so easy. I know my hubby will love these. Thanks.