Sharing a favorite muffin recipe today! My Apple Spice Carrot Muffins are the perfect after school or morning snack. Apple Muffin perfection!
Muffin Recipe
Making muffins on the weekends is one of my favorite things ever. You are going to love these soft, not overly sweet apple spice muffins with shredded carrots throughout. Hope you enjoy!
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Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Start by creaming your butter and honey.
Add your egg.
Applesauce!
Shredded carrot.
Dry ingredients up next.
Add some bran, fill cupcake liners and bake! Most muffin recipes use a 12–cup muffin pan, each cup having a capacity of about ⅓ cup. This has become a standard size for the new, non-stick muffin pans and most aluminum pans for sale. If your pan has larger or smaller cups, adjust the baking time by about five minutes more for the larger muffins, five minutes less for the smaller ones.
Soft, hearty and perfect. Try them chilled too.
Tips For Making The BEST Muffins
- Start with ingredients at room temperature, eggs, milk, etc.
- Don’t over mix the batter.
- Use fresh ingredients and spices.
- Grease the entire muffin tin well.
- Fill muffin tins three-quarters full..
- Allow muffins to cool in the pan at least 10 minutes before removing them from tin.
What’s The Best Way To Store Muffins?
- Similar to any other types of bread, muffins should be placed into an airtight plastic bag or an airtight container. Properly wrapped muffins will keep stay fresh for 3-4 days at room temperature.
Can You Freeze Muffins?
- If wrapped well in an airtight container, frozen muffins will keep well for up to 3 months. NOTE: To prevent condensation on the muffin tops, be sure that muffins are completely cool before freezing.
Apple Spice Carrot Muffin Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup cinnamon applesauce
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup shredded carrot
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup bran
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 9 muffin tins with cupcake liners.
- Place butter, sugar and honey into stand mixer, beat until well combined. Add egg, Kroger Applesauce, vanilla and carrots. Beat until combined. Slowly add flour, bran, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and salt. Beat until just combined. Scoop into cupcake liners, 3/4 full. Bake for 20-22 minutes, until baked through. Let cool then serve room temperature or chilled.
Nice long walk this morning.
These sound wonderful….thanks for sharing!
Snow day = board games with the kids!
I went for a long walk after a long time off. Felt wonderful!
My little victory is spending more time with my daughter in disneyland this weekend!
My little victory for today is a BIG victory! I decided to make myself a fancy little omelette for breakfast (Western-style)…and as I was eating, I got a call that I was selected for a position I recently interviewed for! YAY FOR EMPLOYMENT!
I worked out for the first time in months!
Love this giveaway and that recipe…yummy!
Those look yummy! My little victory is remembering to take my vitamins each day for the past week! Fingers crossed for the kroger giveaway!
Those look yummy, and so does the kroger giveaway!
These look super tasty! My little victory for today is to drink more water!
Thanks for doing this giveaway!
My boys woke up in a good mood!
I got up and went to the gym.
All of my favorite flavors! Love these Jenny 🙂
There’s so much goodness in these muffins! My kids would love these as after school snacks, and I’d happily eat them throughout the day.
I ran early this morning!
Drinking more water is my main goal. So many benefits to that.
I will definitely be trying this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
I started drinking water first thing this morning! I need to work on staying more hydrated!
I want to start doing yoga in the mornings before diving into my inbox.
I really miss yoga, too!! Definitely need to add it back to the schedule as well as this apple spice carrot muffins!!
I love how healthy and easy these muffins are!
The muffins look delicious. I am retiring from my job next month so I have a lot of new goals for the year and becoming more physically fit will be a big start of it.
Love these muffins! Would love to grab one of these on the go 🙂 xoxo
I ran outside in 19 degree weather!
Got a workout class and a short run in before work this morning 🙂
These muffins look great!
Going to Zumba class with my SIL.
Completed the morning school run to two different schools. Always a victory!
I still managed to get in a workout and keep up with my healthy eats despite snow and freezing temps yesterday. I typically treat snow days like vacation.
these look delicious! can’t wait to try them. Thank you!
This looks very good and healthy!
I am sure my kids would love these after school. Great way to sneak some carrots into their diets!
Yum – a healthy,easy snack!
Oh I’m excited for you to get back to yoga!!! I try to go once a week and whenever I miss a week I seriously crave the yoga. It’s addictive! Love these muffins too! 🙂
My little victory is to drink more water and work out 4 to 5 times a week 🙂
These look so delicious! Thanks for the giveaway chance!